(This is a two part article. The first part is a deceptively simple short introduction to the Lightning Network to lure you in. The second part is a more technical overview of an experiment that René Pickhardt and I conducted on top of it. You can find badly cobbled…

The educated Bitcoin community (at least in Germany) is still small.

If we will ever elect one “digital gold”, Bitcoin seems to me the most likely winner. By market capitalization it…

(Obligatory disclaimer that you should not put all your eggs into one basket, especially if it is an experimental basket, and that I will not buy you a new one if your one breaks, nor will I otherwise be held accountable. Also, I own fractions of a bitcoin.)

(This is an article about the development of sudokoin.com.
There is another one in the making about the road map.)

Getting into new technologies costs a lot of time and energy, so I want to make sure that it is as much fun as possible. I…

What comes to mind when you let it.

There is indirect electric lighting and a candle burning. Atmospheric music is emanating from featureless black cubes on a glass desk and a large flat-screen is displaying a library of sounds. Right…