How to Stay Safe with Bitcoin
Originally published here. Written by Peter Selmeczy The nonstop increase of Bitcoin price over dollar has shown its reverse side. It has given birth to…
Segwit2x Bugs Explained
The Segwit2x hard fork was called off a little over a week ago in an email post to the 2x mailing list. Several parties threatened…
How to Protect Against Replay Attacks
Jeff Garzik recently reverted opt-in replay protection on the btc1 GitHub. This is causing some anxiety as many believe this lack of replay protection will…
Bitcoin Gold: What you need to know
There’s a Bitcoin hard fork around the corner and it’s not 2x. Announced right before Bitcoin Cash forked, Bitcoin Gold is scheduled to go live…
How Segwit2x Replay Protection Works
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…
Atomic Swaps
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…
Mining BTC/BCH: Past, Present and Future
Many miners are clearly moving back and forth between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash in an attempt to maximize profits. What’s going on and why is…
Replay Attacks Explained
Segwit2x has garnered some controversy over the fact that it will not have replay protection. In this article, I’m going to explain what a replay…
Transaction Malleability Explained
One of the benefits of SegWit, scheduled to activate on the network very soon, is that it fixes something called transaction malleability. In this article,…
Bitcoin Tech Talk Mission
Authored with John Newbery Keeping up with Bitcoin is exhausting. Most sources out there are either untechnical, inaccessible or partisan. It’s hard to know which…