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The Core Issue: Keeping Bitcoin Core Secure

From The Core Issue: a look at how Bitcoin Core handles security vulnerability disclosures, testing for bugs, and patching them.

The Core Issue: Cluster Mempool, Problems Are Easier In Chunks

From The Core Issue: A look at Cluster Mempool, a rearchitecting of how your node's mempool is organized and managed.

Satoshi’s Exercise for the Reader

The Bitcoin whitepaper is clear about Bitcoin’s core feature: it is permissionless. Anyone in the world can pay anyone by joining the peer-to-peer network...

The v2 Transport: Bitcoin P2P Traffic Goes Dark

From The Core Issue: Learn about the v2 transport protocol upgrade from 2024 that aims to keep your nodes internet traffic private from snooping.

The Core Issue: Letter From The Editor

The Core Issue explores the Bitcoin Core project, letting developers themselves discuss the projects they work on, how they approach their work, and more.

Taproot Assets – Bitcoin As A Medium Of Exchange 

Taproot Assets could lay the foundational infrastructure necessary to make the Lightning Network a serious competitor with Visa.

The Finance Issue: Letter From The Editor

The Finance Issue explores Bitcoin’s evolution from a peer-to-peer currency to a global financial reserve, examining its integration into corporate treasuries and mainstream finance.

The Biggest Bitcoin Pizza Day Celebration Ever

Bitcoin is an extremely powerful tool, that can genuinely change a person's life. Brindon Mwiine tells a story of how it did so for orphaned children in Uganda.

Remote Node Runner Pitfalls

Operating a Lightning node remotely can be incredibly rewarding — but only if approached with the same seriousness you’d apply to running a financial service. Because in many ways, that’s exactly what it is: Running a Lightning node is hard, but becoming a node runner is worth it.

Lightning Strikes: The Value-For-Value Future of Money and Work

Harnessing Lightning reshapes you, just like lifting weights sculpts muscles: The value-for-value revolution will fundamentally change how we work, produce, consume and live on a bitcoin standard.

Ark and Spark: The Channel Factories We’ve Been Waiting For

Ark and Spark revolutionize Lightning Network’s scalability in 2025, slashing on-chain transactions with shared UTXOs for fast, cheap Bitcoin payments. Their interoperable, trust-minimized designs overcome channel factory hurdles, cementing Lightning’s role in Bitcoin’s layer-2 future.

Book’s Books: Matt Sekerke and Steve Hanke, “Making Money Work: How to Rewrite the Rules of Our Financial System”

This book on money, by two economists, was so bad that I stopped reading after 33 pages. The authors ignorantly dismissed Bitcoin in a single sentence; thus, I concluded that the title wasn’t worth my time — or indeed anybody concerned with building a better monetary future.

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