Hardware Hardware Innovations That Are Strengthening Bitcoin The first Bitcoin hardware project was likely a wallet created in 2012 by Slush.
lightning LNURL We will explore an emerging technology/protocol called LNURL that sits on top of the lightning network and attempts to improve the usability of Lightning.
lightning Lightning Pool Lightning Pool is a peer-to-peer marketplace for Lightning node operators to buy and sell channels. Learn more about its benefits and how it works.
Developer Taproot explained in 10 summarised points The Bitcoin network recently received an upgrade called Taproot. The upgrade consisted of 3 different BIPs (Bitcoin's Improvement Proposals): BIP 340 - Schnorr Signatures for secp256k1 BIP 341 - Taproot:
Developer 10 things to know about Discreet Log Contracts Alt-coins enthusiasts have claimed that Bitcoin’s Script language has severe limitations in terms of smart-contracts. The recent surge of so-called DeFi (Decentralized Finance) applications built on top of Ethereum
Developer Evolution of the signature size in Bitcoin Digital signatures are an essential building block of the Bitcoin protocol and account for a large part of the data stored on the blockchain.
Security Where’s my bitcoin? This article is an op-ed by Nick Neuman, CEO and co-founder, Casa. Nick discusses the importance of keys and multi-sig.
Developer Bitcoin Development Monthly Round-Up A round-up of what we've been doing in September 2020. Videos, interviews, reviews and some great op-ed's.
Security Don’t take Bitcoin on trust Mt Gox was a wake-up call to the Bitcoin industry — one it unwisely chose to ignore. Major exchanges including Coinbase, Kraken, Bitstamp, BTC China and others did publish a joint statement promising more audits and greater transparency.
Developer Photon SDK: seedless wallet toolbox Bitcoin is an asset that is difficult to store safely. Bitcoin and lightning developer Tankred Hase explains his new library to make it easy to implement secure, user friendly, seedless wallets.
Interview Leveraging Bitcoin innovation for business: An interview with Philip Glazman Philip Glazman is a software engineer at River Financial, a start-up aiming to become the world's first Bitcoin financial institution. Today we asked him a few questions
Developer Bitcoin DeFi: An overview If bitcoin revolutionised the technology of saving, DeFi aims to revolutise all other parts of the financial system, which is a gargantuan task to say the least.
Developer An overview of technical bitcoin projects [August 2020] There's an incredible amount of development happening within bitcoin. In this article we list most of the key projects being worked on that aim to improve bitcoin technology.
Interview Is the bitcoin industry sexist? This op-ed article explores the experiences of a woman managing one of the largest exchanges in the UK.
Developer 10 key technical Lightning updates in 2020 A summary of the big technical updates to lightning implementations in 2020 so far.
Conference Running a Bitcoin node - for beginners The motto of a number of bitcoiners is "don't trust, verify" yet increasingly fewer people run a node. Check out reasons to run a node, and reasons why you might not want to.
Developer How to diversify the funding sources of Bitcoin developers Some people think that if you're a bitcoin developer you must have been bought lots of bitcoin really early and be crazy rich by now - which means that funding development is not really a priority. This is far from capturing the whole picture.
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Developer What is Miniscript? Part 1 Miniscript makes the process of writing bitcoin scripts easier to write but also easier to verify its correctness. In this article I explain the basics of miniscript.
Developer Security Issues with Browser-Based Bitcoin Wallets Jameson Lopp , CTO at Casa, discusses wallet security and in particular security around how deposits and withdrawals are made to and from the wallet.
Interview Interview with Selene Jin, Director of User Experience Listen to Conor Okus, editor of Advancing Bitcoin, and Selene Jin, Director of User Experience, talk about Bitcoin, user experience, and the on-boarding new users.
Developer Rethinking Wallet Architecture using Wallet Descriptors Bitcoin Core’s wallet recently changed. At the Advancing Bitcoin Conference 2020, Andrew Chow spoke about Rethinking Wallet Architecture. Previously, the wallet inside of Bitcoin Core (the CWallet class) followed a ‘bunch of keys’ model.
Developer With P2EP, BTC Pay Server steps into the battle for Bitcoin’s privacy BTC Pay Server is an open-source payment processor. It allows anyone to become its own uncensorable version of Paypal, Kickstarter or Patreon, in a few minutes and for free.
Developer How to become a bitcoin developer Whether you're looking to strike it rich, wanting to create a financial revolution, or you're simply loving the technology - working as a bitcoin developer can be a rewarding career.
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