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…
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Replay protection schemes in Segwit2X
With the recent Bitcoin Gold fork and planned Segwit2X fork in mid-November, the topic of keeping coins safe after disruptive events is especially relevant. As…
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…
What is a Bitcoin Merklized Abstract Syntax Tree (MAST)?
Merklized Abstract Syntax Trees (MAST) are a proposed addition to Bitcoin that allows for smaller transaction sizes, more privacy, and larger smart contracts. In this…
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…
What’s new in Bitcoin Core v0.15 — part 2
This article continues the series on enhancements and new features in Bitcoin Core v0.15. Yesterday I talked about a low-level technical change that results in…
What’s new in Bitcoin Core v0.15 — part 1
I’m very excited about the recent Bitcoin Core v0.15 release. This is the first major release that I’ve been involved in from start to finish,…
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…