How Silent Payments Are Bringing New Privacy Protections To Bitcoin
The Silent Payments proposal could help users make bitcoin transactions more privately, but how does it work and why do we need it? This is an opinion editorial by Seth…
Pickhardt Payments: How To Send Large Bitcoin Payments On Lightning
The work of Rene Pickhardt shows that despite being mainly used for small, fast Bitcoin transactions, Lightning can also deliver large payments. and mailing list post. More resources are also…
Exploring The Bitcoin Use Cases Of Spacechains
While spacechains have limited functionality for Bitcoin users, they do provide some interesting use cases worth exploring. In the last article, I broke down what a spacechain is and how…
Spacechains: How This New Bitcoin Sidechain Proposal Works
Spacechains is a proposed Bitcoin sidechain that offers a one-way peg mechanism utilizing blind merge mine design. The idea of sidechains as a scaling and feature extension mechanism for Bitcoin…
We Need To Encrypt The Peer-To-Peer Layer Of Bitcoin For Privacy
By making traffic between network peers encrypted, Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 324 can improve privacy by hiding node locations and other private data. The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s…
BOLT 12 And LNURL: What Is The Future For Bitcoin’s Lightning Network?
BOLT 12 and LNURL seem to accomplish the same things for users of the Bitcoin Lightning Network. But what are the technical differences? What is BOLT 12? Well, it is…