Originally published here. Written by Peter Selmeczy The nonstop increase of Bitcoin price over dollar has shown its reverse side. It has given birth to…
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Schnorr Signatures are an exciting innovation that can help scale on-chain transactions and improve privacy and security of participants. The majority of the work is…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Merklized Abstract Syntax Trees (MAST) are a proposed addition to Bitcoin that allows for smaller transaction sizes, more privacy, and larger smart contracts. In this…
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…