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PortuguêsThe discussion on Taproot activation appears to have reached its final stage, with the remaining decision revolving around the activation parameter LOT. The code for Taproot, a proposed Bitcoin protocol…
Continue ReadingYou’ve probably already heard about Taproot, the new proposed soft-fork upgrade for Bitcoin, which will introduce a new signing algorithm and an enhanced, more private and flexible scripting mechanism. Now,…
Continue ReadingListen To This Episode: In this episode of “The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discussed Bitcoin addresses. Every Bitcoin user has probably at one point…
Continue ReadingEarlier this week, Bitcoin’s development community met via Internet Relay Chat (IRC) to discuss Taproot activation paths and lay out an expected timeline for the privacy and smart contract flexibility…
Continue ReadingTaproot was merged into Bitcoin Core in October 2020, leaving only the activation method for this highly-anticipated protocol upgrade focused on adding smart contract flexibility and more transactional privacy to…
Continue ReadingListen To This Episode: In this episode of “The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discussed replace by fee (RBF). RBF is a trick that lets…
Continue ReadingListen To This Episode: In this episode of “The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discussed compact client-side filtering, also known as Neutrino. Compact client-side filtering…
Continue ReadingListen To This Episode: In this episode of “The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discussed the newly released Bitcoin Core 0.21.0. Bitcoin Core 0.21.0 is…
Continue ReadingListen To This Episode: In this episode of “The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost are once again joined by Ruben Somsen. The trio discussed Drivechain,…
Continue ReadingToday marks the official release of Bitcoin Core 0.21.0, the 21st major release of Bitcoin’s original software client launched by Satoshi Nakamoto almost 12 years ago. Overseen by Bitcoin Core…
Continue ReadingTaproot is currently the most likely next upgrade for Bitcoin. It is one of a few upgrades that are currently being worked on that users and developers would hope to…
Continue ReadingSeemingly undisturbed by 2020’s craziness, and largely unfazed by bitcoin’s wild price swings that concluded with new all-time highs in December, Bitcoin’s technical community continues to plow ahead. Bitcoin’s software…
Continue ReadingListen To This Episode: In this very special episode of the “Bitcoin Magazine Podcast,” Christian Keroles sat down with Bitcoin Core contributor John Newbery to discuss Newbery’s new Bitcoin development…
Continue ReadingListen To This Episode: In this episode of “The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discussed why it matters that Bitcoin software is open source and…
Continue ReadingClark Moody has been a long-time staple of the Bitcoin analytics and visualizations community. In fact, Bitcoin Magazine’s first article mentioning Moody goes all the way back to August 2013.…
Continue ReadingRSK, the Ethereum-like sidechain for Bitcoin developed by IOVlabs, is evolving. The federated pegging mechanism, which is based on a Bitcoin multi-signature (multisig) address, is migrating to a system that…
Continue ReadingListen To This Episode: In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discussed Bitcoin mempools, Child Pays For Parent (CPFP) and package relay.…
Continue Reading“Push the date back two months. OP_EVAL just is not ready yet.” It was the verdict Gavin Andresen had worked so long to avoid. With a single rebuke sent from…
Continue ReadingBrink, the new nonprofit founded by John Newbery and Mike Schmidt to train and support Bitcoin developers, today announced Gloria Zhao as its first fellow. After graduating from Berkeley with…
Continue ReadingHow do we fund Bitcoin developers, and how do we ensure there are enough of them in the first place? Former Chaincode Labs developer John Newbery and Blockstream alumnus Mike…
Continue ReadingListen To This Episode: In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Aaron and Sjors discuss the Erebus Attacks. The episode is a follow-up from last week’s episode on Eclipse…
Continue ReadingListen To This Episode: In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Aaron and Sjors discuss Eclipse attacks. More specifically, they discuss the 2015 paper “Eclipse Attacks on Bitcoin’s Peer-to-Peer…
Continue ReadingEarlier today, a change to the underlying Ethereum code made by developers some time ago resulted in an unannounced hard fork, effectively splitting the Ethereum blockchain and creating a new…
Continue ReadingListen To This Episode: In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Aaron and Sjors discuss Open Timestamps, a Bitcoin-based time stamping project from applied cryptography consultant and former Bitcoin…
Continue ReadingThere is a need to strengthen the Bitcoin ecosystem for people whose only computing device is a smartphone and who live where mobile internet access is expensive, slow, unreliable or…
Continue ReadingListen To This Episode: On this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Aaron and Sjors are once again joined by Ruben Somsen. But this time, the trio isn’t discussing one…
Continue ReadingOn this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Aaron and Sjors discuss “Assume UTXO,” a proposal and project by Chaincode Labs alumnus James O’Beirne. One of the biggest, if not…
Continue ReadingOn this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Aaron and Sjors discuss one of the biggest releases in Bitcoin’s history: Bitcoin Core 0.21. Specifically, they dive into how this release…
Continue ReadingTaproot, the highly-anticipated protocol upgrade designed to add smart contract flexibility and more transactional privacy to Bitcoin, has officially merged into Bitcoin Core. The implementation now merged into Bitcoin’s code…
Continue ReadingIt’s been a tough past few weeks for all leading decentralized finance coins. While Maker (MKR) — the native token of the MakerDAO protocol — has been an outperformer, the…
Continue ReadingBitcoin has been inching higher over the past 24 hours as the cryptocurrency market has become correlated with the S&P 500 once again. Both markets are up over the past…
Continue ReadingBitcoin has been consolidating between $10,000 and $11,000 over the past month, barely deviating from this relatively tight range. A crucial fractal analysis predicts that the cryptocurrency is primed to…
Continue ReadingThe Bitcoin market is shaking off the strong correction to $10,400 last week. The leading cryptocurrency currently trades for $10,700, a few percent above those lows as buyers come in…
Continue ReadingBitcoin has seen muted price action over the past few days after plunging from the $10,900 weekly highs as a result of negative new regarding BitMEX. Gold may soon be…
Continue ReadingBitcoin is expected to soon see a strong breakout as the price action of the cryptocurrency tightens after the news that the U.S. CFTC is charging BitMEX. Related Reading: Ethereum…
Continue ReadingTron (TRX) has surged 10% in the past 24 hours, defying a stagnation in the price of both Bitcoin and Ethereum around local lows. For context, BTC and ETH have…
Continue ReadingBitcoin price is currently back over $10,500, holding on after a brief crash to under $10,400 on the heels of several pieces of extremely negative news. The recent news normally…
Continue ReadingDeFi After a brutal past three to four weeks, DeFi coins are bouncing back. Synthetix Network Token (SNX), the native token of leading decentralized derivatives platform Synthetix, has gained 7.9%…
Continue ReadingBitcoin has seen weak price action since reaching the highs of $12,500 in late August. At the start of the month, the leading cryptocurrency slipped from the year-to-date highs to…
Continue ReadingThe total value locked away in DeFi applications has breached over $11 billion and is still climbing. This record inflow of decentralized finance capital could continue to propel Chainlink’s bullish…
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