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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:

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

Digital signatures are an essential building block of the Bitcoin protocol and account for a large part of the data stored on the blockchain.

A round-up of what we've been doing in September 2020. Videos, interviews, reviews and some great op-ed's.

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.

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.

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.

A summary of the big technical updates to lightning implementations in 2020 so far.

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.

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.

Jameson Lopp , CTO at Casa, discusses wallet security and in particular security around how deposits and withdrawals are made to and from the wallet.

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.

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.

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.