2+ hour, 6+ min ago  (1643+ words) Bitcoin is too slow to be money. The Bitcoin network gets a lot of stick for supposed lack of speed. Sceptics highlight that Bitcoin can handle roughly seven transactions per second, and contrast this with Visa's ability to process tens…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1703+ words) A new key pair should be used for each transaction to keep them from being linked to a common owner." - Satoshi Nakamoto In the Bitcoin whitepaper, Satoshi alluded to the privacy cost associated with address reuse. Today, Silent Payments offer…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1610+ words) You've probably heard that Bitcoin uses more electricity than all of Switzerland. You might also have heard that miners are "solving complex equations." One of these statements is true. The other is nonsense. Neither explains what mining actually does, and…...

5+ mon, 1+ day ago  (459+ words) Solo mining sits at an interesting intersection of Bitcoin's incentives, its security model, and its culture. It's mechanically simple, statistically brutal, and is becoming a powerful counterweight to the gravitational pull of mining centralisation. Below you'll see the most recent…...

5+ mon, 1+ day ago  (197+ words) This tool can tell you when a specific Bitcoin block was mined - or, conversely, which block a specific moment falls in. This is a surprisingly common task. Wallets sometimes display block heights instead of timestamps. Chain analysis might require the…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (956+ words) In my explainer on mnemonic seeds, we explored how recovery phrases emerge from pure entropy - coin tosses, dice rolls, pure randomness. We learned how that randomness is encoded into a string of words: easier to memorize and backup than a…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1168+ words) Let's get the bad news out of the way: you can't hold real Bitcoin in an ISA. By "real, I'm referring to true self-custody, where you hold the keys to your coins and thus have absolute control over your funds....

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1877+ words) Today I'll show you how to build your first Bitcoin node using a Raspberry Pi 5 and several off-the-shelf parts. It's a fun weekend hacking project and a great way to learn more about cryptocurrency, all while contributing to the decentralised…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (926+ words) Looking to learn more about Bitcoin? Great - welcome! When I first stumbled down the Bitcoin rabbit hole, I devoured everything I could find. Each book that I finished raised fresh questions, forcing me to decide which title on my list…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1441+ words) In this tutorial, I'll demonstrate a way you can accept on-chain Bitcoin donations via your website in a permissionless, privacy-preserving way. There's no need to run your own server or Bitcoin node, nor will you need any specialist software or…...