Bitcoin Tech Talk

How to Stay Safe with Bitcoin

Originally published here.

Proof-of-Work (PoW) was originally invented as a measure against email spams. Only later it was adapted to be used in digital cash [1].

What PoW mining actually does under the hood, is that it converts kinetic energy (electricity) into a ledger block. A…

I have some of my bitcoin in Bread wallet and use it for sending bitcoin for everyday transactions. When sending a transaction, Bread gives you two options for selecting the network fee, Regular…

The Segwit2x hard fork was called off a little over a week ago in an email post to the 2x mailing list. Several parties threatened to split the network anyway, and we eagerly waited for block 494784 to see whether someone would mine the 2x hard fork or not.

With the recent Bitcoin Gold fork and planned Segwit2X fork in mid-November, the topic of keeping coins safe after disruptive events is especially relevant. As discussed previously on BitcoinTechTalk, a facet of maintaining the safety of one’s coins post-fork is…

Jeff Garzik recently reverted opt-in replay protection on the btc1 GitHub. This is causing some anxiety as many believe this lack of replay protection will cause all sorts of horrible things on the network.

There’s a Bitcoin hard fork around the corner and it’s not 2x. Announced right before Bitcoin Cash forked, Bitcoin Gold is scheduled to go live sometime in November. In this article, I’m going to explain what Bitcoin Gold is, how and when it will hard fork and what…