Note: This replay protection scheme has since been reverted! Please make sure you DO NOT use the protection scheme from this article for anything as…
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Deep technical writing on Bitcoin Core development and the open-source ecosystem.
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…
This is the final article in this series about features and improvements in Bitcoin Core v0.15. Today I’ll talk about a small implementation change by…
In this series, I’ve already covered one performance improvement (per-output chainstate db) and a couple of user features (better fee estimation and bumpfee in the…
Yesterday, I wrote about how fee estimation is better in v0.15, but what happens if you send a transaction without enough fee to be included…
This article continues the series on enhancements and new features in Bitcoin Core v0.15. Yesterday I talked about a low-level technical change that results in…
I’m very excited about the recent Bitcoin Core v0.15 release. This is the first major release that I’ve been involved in from start to finish,…
Why we have fees Space in the Bitcoin blockchain is a limited resource, and given a low enough price, demand for that space will far…
What if I told you that there’s a way you can save more than 80% on transaction fees by compressing your Bitcoin transactions? You’d probably…