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We go beyond the headlines to provide readers with in-depth, expert commentary and explanation of the technical developments that continue to challenge and grow the digital currency and blockchain space.

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Why The Denial-Of-Service Argument Against BOLT 12 Doesn’t Hold Up

By Shinobi15 hours ago
Opinion
Bitcoin Lightning Network has dual channels and competing implementations of two or more.
Technical

Lightning For Life — How Lightning Can And Will Integrate With The Web

By Roy SheinfeldMay 26, 2022
Feature
Bitcoin Core and Lightning Network nodes are integral to the network.
Technical

DIY Bitcoin Nodes — A Project Anyone Can Do

By Anthony FelicianoMay 26, 2022
Opinion
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Proof Of Work Vs. Proof Of Stake: Why Bitcoin Won’t Change

By NamciosMay 26, 2022
Feature
As surveillance efforts in our society intensify, Bitcoin offers a pseudonymous, even potentially anonymous, lifeline for privacy.
Technical

Improving Bitcoin Privacy With Silent Payments

By Marty BentMay 25, 2022
Marty's Bent
Bitcoin mining at home is a good usage of energy and electricity because you get bitcoin from it.
Technical

How To Set Up Uptime Monitoring For Your Home Bitcoin Mining Setup

By Scott MarmollMay 25, 2022
Feature
With TVL At All-Time Highs, The Lightning Network’s Time Has Come
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A Few Ways We Can Upgrade Lightning Network Payment Routing

By ShinobiMay 20, 2022
Opinion
Bitcoin is ultimately an open-source software code run by nodes and computers.
Technical

What Is BIP 119 And Why Did It Fuel Such Heated Discussions In Bitcoin?

By NamciosMay 20, 2022
Feature
The feud between bitcoin mixing services Wasabi and Samourai should not come down to the latter’s Transaction Zero feature.
Technical

Wasabi Versus Samourai: TX0 Has Nothing To Do With It

By ShinobiMay 19, 2022
Opinion
What Are Bitcoin Forks?
Technical

How Bitcoin Should Be Upgraded In The Future

By ShinobiMay 16, 2022
Opinion
Locking files with encryption is a good privacy and security technique like bitcoin cryptography.
Technical

How To Lock And Protect Away Secret Files With GNU Privacy Guard

By Arman The ParmanMay 13, 2022
Feature
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What Terra’s Collapse Teaches About ‘Crypto’ and Bitcoin

By NamciosMay 12, 2022
Feature
Bitcoin Air-Gapped Computers are more secure, better Header Images, and they fly through canyons high like the bitcoin price.
Technical

Why Use An Air-Gapped Computer (AGC) For Bitcoining?

By Arman The ParmanMay 11, 2022
Opinion
Technical - Bitcoin Core 0.14.1: SegWit Signalling and Memory Accounting
Technical

Bitcoin Changes With User-Signaled Soft Forks

By Bitcoin MagazineMay 9, 2022
Podcast
Everything you need to know to install and operate a Bitcoin node connected to the blockchain via satellite, and enjoy full sovereignty.
Technical

Analyzing BIP119 And The Controversy Surrounding It

By ShinobiMay 9, 2022
Opinion
Bitcoin will destroy tyrannical order and replace it, not with blind chaos and confusion, but with an incorruptible foundation.
Technical

A Conversation About The Controversy Surrounding BIP119

By Bitcoin MagazineMay 4, 2022
Podcast
As Taproot, the latest consensus protocol change, approaches activation, Bitcoin developers are asking how exactly the network should be upgraded.
Technical

Exploring BIP119 And The Way Changes Are Made In Bitcoin

By KeagsMay 4, 2022
Opinion
How To CoinJoin Your bitcoin with sparrow wallet and mix the coins transactions.
Technical

How To Whirlpool Your Bitcoin On Desktop With Sparrow Wallet

By EconoalchemistApr 28, 2022
Feature
Bitcoin private key storage and management is a key part of keeping protection privacy and security of your vaults and wallets.
Technical

Weighing The Options Of Bitcoin Private Key Management

By ShinobiApr 27, 2022
Feature
The Bitcoin Core PR review club meets weekly to onboard new contributors to Bitcoin Core by reviewing and testing pull requests.
Technical

Is Speedy Trial The Best Way To Change Bitcoin?

By Marty BentApr 26, 2022
Marty's Bent
Digital assets - When the Fork Forks: What You Need to Know as Bitcoin Cash Goes to War
Technical

Adversarial Thinking And Ways To Attack Bitcoin

By OkadaApr 26, 2022
Opinion
Bitcoin is ultimately an open-source software determined by its code.
Technical

The Release Of Bitcoin Core 23.0

By Bitcoin MagazineApr 25, 2022
Podcast
As Taproot, the latest consensus protocol change, approaches activation, Bitcoin developers are asking how exactly the network should be upgraded.
Technical

Bitcoin Core 23.0 Released: What’s New

By NamciosApr 25, 2022
Feature
Bitcoin is a key that unlocks a metaphorical prison cell.
Technical

Bitcoin Silent Payments And Secret Blinding Keys

By ShinobiApr 25, 2022
Opinion
There are numerous factors to consider in weighing the centralization of bitcoin mining, and the industry can only be as decentralized as any one.
Technical

Federated Chaumian Mints Provide A Way For Bitcoin Users To Distribute Trust

By Marty BentApr 15, 2022
Marty's Bent
Bitcoin security and private keys are important to maintain the safety and privacy of.
Technical

Access Denied: How Ledn Protected Client Data From The Recent HubSpot Breach

By Anton LivajaApr 15, 2022
Opinion
Lightning is in a race to become the fastest Layer Two implementation and Bitcoin will go quicker.
Technical

How Bitcoin’s Leading Lightning Implementations Are Expanding Functionality

By ShinobiApr 15, 2022
Feature
Bitcoin Lightning Network has dual channels and competing implementations of two or more.
Technical

Core Lightning: How Blockstream’s Implementation Rebrand Speaks To Its Long-Term Vision For Bitcoin

By NamciosApr 13, 2022
Feature
As surveillance efforts in our society intensify, Bitcoin offers a pseudonymous, even potentially anonymous, lifeline for privacy.
Technical

Federated Chaumian Mints: The Future of Bitcoin Privacy?

By NamciosApr 8, 2022
News
Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino talks about the challenges and expectations for the exchange’s recent integration of Lightning Network deposits and withdrawals.
Technical

Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Is Not Private, Yet

By NamciosApr 8, 2022
News
Knapsack mixing offers efficiency and privacy improvements over equal-amount bitcoin mixing.
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How CoinJoin, CoinSwap Enable Basic Bitcoin Privacy

By NamciosApr 8, 2022
News
Bitcoin Optech was founded in 2018 to bridge the worlds of open-source development and companies.
Technical

Are There Downsides To Bitcoin Soft Fork Upgrades?

By NamciosApr 7, 2022
News
Payments - Hyperloop: A New Concept by Lightning Aiming to Solve Liquidity Problems
Technical

What Implementation of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Should You Pick?

By NamciosApr 6, 2022
News
As Taproot, the latest consensus protocol change, approaches activation, Bitcoin developers are asking how exactly the network should be upgraded.
Technical

How Taro Brings Assets To Bitcoin Through Taproot And Lightning

By NamciosApr 5, 2022
Feature
Computer chips are critical to Bitcoin technology, particularly bitcoin mining rigs or ASICs.
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Building Applications On Top Of The Bitcoin Protocol

By Emmanuel AwosikaApr 2, 2022
Opinion
Donors to Canada’s Freedom Convoy should have used Whirlpool-mixed bitcoin to break deterministic links and provide forward-looking anonymity.
Technical

How The Freedom Convoy Could Have Protected Donation Privacy With Whirlpool

By EconoalchemistMar 31, 2022
Feature
Bitcoin is ultimately an open-source software determined by its code.
Technical

Bitcoin's Code Is Immutable And Can Withstand Attempts To Make It Proof Of Stake

By Marty BentMar 30, 2022
Marty's Bent
This guide and review for the SeedSigner Bitcoin hardware wallet helps users protect their private keys in an entropy-preserving way.
Technical

Building Access To Bitcoin For Everyone Featuring SeedSigner

By Casey CarrilloMar 28, 2022
Podcast
Technical - Bitcoin Core 0.18.0 Release: Here’s What’s New
Technical

The Challenges With Fully Syncing Old Versions Of Bitcoin Core

By Bitcoin MagazineMar 28, 2022
Podcast
Digital assets - Tether Updates Website
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Will Tether Migrate To The Bitcoin Blockchain With Advances In The Lightning Network?

By Marty BentMar 24, 2022
Marty's Bent
Satoshi and anonymous bitcoiners maintain their privacy and security through cryptography.
Technical

Implementing Reusable Payment Codes In Bitcoin Wallets To Improve User Privacy

By Marty BentMar 23, 2022
Marty's Bent
Layer 2 protocols like the Lightning Network and the Liquid sidechain can make it easier for those who leverage bitcoin for remittances.
Technical

Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 21 Helps Users

By Marty BentMar 22, 2022
Marty's Bent
Bitcoin on chain security is important because it provides privacy for your private keys.
Technical

If You Are Going To KYC, Then You Should CYA

By Heidi PorterMar 22, 2022
Opinion
There are numerous factors to consider in weighing the centralization of bitcoin mining, and the industry can only be as decentralized as any one.
Technical

Bitcoin Mining Pool Protocol Stratum V2 Is Making Progress

By Marty BentMar 17, 2022
Marty's Bent
How to take your bitcoin self custody to the next level by backing up your wallet recovery seed on a stainless-steel, fire-proof plate.
Technical

Fedimint – The Evolution Of Bitcoin Custody

By Obi NwosuMar 12, 2022
Opinion
Federal authorities tracked down and seized more than 94,000 bitcoin allegedly stolen from Bitfinex. But how did they get their hands on the pseudonymous funds?
Technical

How Law Enforcement Seized 94,000 Bitcoin Stolen From Bitfinex

By NamciosMar 8, 2022
Feature
As surveillance efforts in our society intensify, Bitcoin offers a pseudonymous, even potentially anonymous, lifeline for privacy.
Technical

So You Have KYC Bitcoin — Now What?

By Anthony FelicianoMar 6, 2022
Opinion
According to research by Coinbase, more people in the U.S. searched Google for “Bitcoin” than they did for “Kim Kardashian.”
Technical

Bitcoin And Trust Are Equally Unavoidable

By Tyler ParksMar 5, 2022
Opinion
Bitcoin mining pools rely on centralization, but P2Pool and other protocols have sought to reduce the need for trust in third parties.
Technical

How P2P Protocols Seek To Solve Bitcoin Mining Centralization

By ShinobiFeb 26, 2022
Feature
As Taproot, the latest consensus protocol change, approaches activation, Bitcoin developers are asking how exactly the network should be upgraded.
Technical

Should The Bitcoin Soft Fork Be Buried?

By Bitcoin MagazineFeb 25, 2022
Podcast