Scaling Bitcoin: Schnorr Signatures
Schnorr Signatures are an exciting innovation that can help scale on-chain transactions and improve privacy and security of participants. The majority of the work is…
Category: Blockchain
The Anatomy of Proof-of-Work
Proof-of-Work (PoW) was originally invented as a measure against email spams. Only later it was adapted to be used in digital cash [1]. What PoW…
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…
Saving up to 80% on Bitcoin transaction fees by batching payments
What if I told you that there’s a way you can save more than 80% on transaction fees by compressing your Bitcoin transactions? You’d probably…
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…