Last week I was at Bitcoin Park’s amazing Energy & Mining Summit. Alongside moderator Marty Bent, I was on a panel with Parker Lewis and Thomas Pacchia on the topic of “the financialization of hash” in Bitcoin mining. It’s a fairly new topic, that is complicated even for many people…

A non-technical Guide to Privacy in Bitcoin I’m writing this non-technical explainer, because many people don’t know: That regular bitcoin transactions do not have enough privacy. What measures you can take today as a non-technical user to have more privacy when using Bitcoin. If you’re already convinced about the need for privacy and want a few actions…

I’m writing this non-technical explainer because I believe Erlay is one of the most important performance improvements to Bitcoin yet. Erlay will help the Bitcoin network to remain decentralised, by reducing unnecessary communication between the participants in the network. Thanks to Gleb Naumenko, Pieter Wuille, Gregory Maxwell, Sasha Fedorova and…

When you read about Bitcoin and consensus, the first thing that comes to mind is agreeing on the true version of the Bitcoin blockchain. This post is not about that, it’s about a Bitcoin bubble. Not a price bubble, but a “technical bubble” that many long-term bitcoiners live in. It…

I’m writing this while returning from an awesome weekend at the Baltic Honeybadger 2017 Bitcoin conference in Riga, Latvia. For those of you at home wondering whether this event was worthwhile and what some interesting takeaways are, this is a post for you! In case you’re wondering about the name…

If you ask anyone in the Bitcoin space what the biggest challenge for Bitcoin is, you will likely hear the answer “scalability”. To explain you what Schnorr signatures are and how they can help solve scalability, I’ll first give you a brief recap of why scalability needs to be solved…

A small group of Bitcoin users is convinced that “Blockstreamcore” is the biggest threat to the future of Bitcoin. I’m not talking about trolls, but people with this legitimate concern. I disagree that developer “centralisation” is the biggest threat to bitcoin, because in my eyes, developers actually have the least…

If you’ve been into Bitcoin for a while, you will often see the reference of Bitcoin going to “the moon”. In this post, I’ll use this metaphor to help you understand the current scalability debate and how we might effectively get to the moon (Earth has adopted Bitcoin). From zero to one For decades…

2017 is almost here, and with it a horde of predictions and promises about what will happen to Bitcoin & Blockchain next year. Speculation about the bitcoin price, on whether we will see private blockchains move into production and on what other industries may start to use blockchains to their…