Schnorr Signatures are an exciting innovation that can help scale on-chain transactions and…
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…
Decred and Litecoin completed something called a cross-chain atomic swap a few days ago. They published a blog about it, created a GitHub repo with utilities and talked about it on my show.
In this article, I’m going to explain what atomic swaps are, how this affects Bitcoin and…
Many miners are clearly moving back and forth between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash in an attempt to maximize profits. What’s going on and why is this happening? In this article, I examine what miners have been doing on each chain and what their motivations might…
Segwit2x has garnered some controversy over the fact that it will not have replay protection. In this article, I’m going to explain what a replay attack is and how it will affect the upcoming 2x hard fork.
One of the benefits of SegWit, scheduled to activate on the network very soon, is that it fixes something called transaction malleability. In this article, I’m going to explain what malleability is and why fixing it is important.
Authored with John Newbery
Keeping up with Bitcoin is exhausting. Most sources out there are either untechnical, inaccessible or partisan. It’s hard to know which details are accurate or inaccurate, partial or whole, FUD or actually something to worry about.
