Bitcoin

Bitcoin Core contributor John Newbery walks us through the Bitcoin developments that may come in 2020.

He spent 19 bitcoin to buy his pizza. Today that money would be worth roughly $137,000 today.

Engineer Alex Singleton walks us through the steps needed to setup a Bitcoin full node connected to the Blockstream satellite.

Klokit leverages BTCPay Server to make it easy for freelancers to share invoice links payable in bitcoin with their clients.

Unchained Capital's Parker Lewis walks us through why Bitcoin isn't (only) for criminals.

The team at BitMex Research tested out Bitcoin Core versions going back to v0.8.0 to test initial block download times and gauge how efficient Bitcoin Core has become over time.

Spanish developer José Femenías Cañuelo has written a white paper that aims to bring onchain accounts to Bitcoin. Making address handling and privacy much better.

Check out this demo of Caravan, an open source desktop app built by Unchained Capital that helps users set up multisig addresses.

Matt Ahlborg is back with some in-depth analysis on P2P exchange data coming out of Nigeria. Learn about the burgeoning gift card economy and how bitcoin factors in.

Wiz, a long time bitcoiner, explains why Bitcoin is important and necessary in today's world.

The games being built on top of the Lightning Network keep getting better and better.

The team at Coinmetrics did some digging into the history of Bitcoin and it's blockchain to help estimate how many bitcoins may be lost forever.

Over the weekend, Binance consolidated more than half a million dust UTXOs created by their Tether wallet.

The team from Slush Pool has teamed up with Bitcoin Core contributor Matt Corallo to launch Stratum V2, a new mining pool protocol that should help further decentralize mining.

Jameson Lopp gives us an update on Bitcoin's initial block download stats across implementations compared to one year ago.

Seems like as good a day as ever to do a little check up on the state of Bitcoin mining.

The idea that somehow bitcoin can be banned by governments is the final stage of grief, right before acceptance.

Peep this new desktop application that allows you to create regtest Lightning networks in just a few clicks.

Bitcoin is both digital gold and digital Treasuries, and has all the makings of the world's next risk-free asset.

Tuur Demeester took a deep dive into the conditions that led to The Protestant Reformation and how they relate to The Bitcoin Reformation.

Conner Brown explains why, contrary to popular belief, Bitcoin is not deflationary.

Here's an article that perfectly explains why Bitcoin exists without mentioning Bitcoin.

Hearing a lot about Tether and how it is used to manipulate the price of Bitcoin? Peep this thread that explains what's really going on.

The Coinmetrics team takes a deep dive into the network data of Bitcoin and some of its forks. What they found may surprise you.

Someone is working on a P2P encrypted messaging app using the Lightning Network as a rail. Slowly but surely…

Catch up with the latest developments on the Lightning Network from this week.

Not a good day for some Bitcoin derivative exchanges out there.

Celebrate the 11 year anniversary of the publishing of the Bitcoin White Paper. Connect with the roots of the project.

The team at BitMEX Research explores the essence of Bitcoin's timestamping function and why it is so important.

The team at Coinmetrics took a deep dive into the nonce data of Bitcoin and other blockchains. Their findings tell a lot about ASIC mining hardware production.

Bitcoin would not have been possible without the breakthroughs that were made in cryptography, distributed systems, and hardware in the decades leading up to its inception. Here's a great timeline showing the breakthroughs of the last half century.

Dan Held explains why Bitcoin's Proof of Work mechanism is efficient and why fears of Bitcoin's energy consumption may be overblown.

In Part III of their Lightning Network research series the BitMEX Research team dives into the intricacies of closing channels and how best to deter bad behavior.

It's refreshing to see a CEO take such a principled stance.

If you blinked this afternoon, you may have missed this price movement.

Read up on how not to CoinJoin your UTXOs.

Bakkt, a new exchange that enables institutional investors to trade Bitcoin futures contracts, had itself a day.

Bitcoin is an open source distributed system dependent on the vigilance of individuals. Here's a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal that could use some review.

Learn how to store and spend your bitcoins like a true cypherpunk.

The team behind the Samourai Wallet is on a mission to educate people about proper CoinJoin UX and best practices. In this piece they explain how their WhirlPool technology approaches CoinJoins.

Iterative Capital announces their latest product, Escher Hub. An exchange that connects directly to personal wallets through which individuals can buy and sell bitcoin.

Justin Moon explains the advantages and nuances of using a multisig setup when storing your Bitcoin. How many bullets can your setup take?

Have you been hearing your friends who are into Bitcoin talk about "seed phrases"? Learn about this important part of Bitcoin here.

You'll probably be hearing a lot more of this moving forward.

The team at BitMex Research continues their research of the Lightning Network and shares their notes from the field about running a routing node.

Is it possible to survive on sats? One man embarked on a journey to prove that, yes. Yes you can.

Christopher Giancarlo, ex-CFTC Chief, admitted that the Trump administration was worried about Bitcoin's popularity and wanted regulators to do something about it.

Check out this introduction to the Lightning Network from BitMex Research. Written almost two years ago, the analysis stands the test of time.

Do you want to learn how Bitcoin works without diving into too many specifics? Check out this book. A great quick read that will take you from zero to basic understanding in less than two hours.

Twitter user @StopAndDecrypt provides a great explanation of the power dynamics between full nodes and miners.

Alexander Liegl explains how Bitcoin creates incentives for oil and gas producers to become insanely efficient.

The team that brought us the Cryptosteel backup wallet has released a new version of their storage product.

This page tracks Bitcoin's price movement and its relation to the Stock to Flow Model made popular by Twitter user @100TrillionUSD as well as many other interesting indicators and stats.

Every 210,000 blocks the amount of bitcoin rewarded to miners every ten minutes gets cut in half by the protocol. Find out how much this will affect new supply after block 630,000.

The founders of Satoshis Games have announced their first game, Light Nite. An open Battle Royale that allows users to win (or lose) BTC over the Lightning Network.

Day 2 of The Lightning Conference is being streamed now. Check it out here.

Haters will say it's photoshop.

Here's one of many games that were demo'd during the first day of The Lightning Conference in Berlin.

Hundreds of people have gathered in Berlin to update the world about the state of the Lightning Network and the new products that are being built with it. Check out the stream to the conference here.

PlanB puts forward that, yes, Bitcoin is an act of free speech. This leads to a few interesting conversations on the subject in the thread.