What Are Phantom Node Payments?
The complexity of Lightning has seen many users opt for custodial wallet options; this reliance on custodial wallet providers to hold user balances or generate Lightning Addresses exposes users to the possibility of getting rugged through services shutting down or ceasing operations due to regulatory changes, risking the accessibility and privacy of their funds. Over the […]
Bitcoin Knots Patch Aims To Tie Up Ordinals
The recent surge in popularity of Bitcoin Ordinals has sparked both excitement and concern within the Bitcoin ecosystem. There has not been this much of a polarising topic since the block size wars. Given Ordinals need to gobble up the already limited block space, it has begun to marginalise other transaction types like standard Bitcoin […]
Why Run A Cloud Node With Voltage
One of the core tenets of Bitcoin is to avoid trust and always verify. To do this, you should practise self-custody and reduce exposure to intermediaries. While this is the intended use for Bitcoin, the reality is very few people have taken the time to use the asset and the network in a trustless manner. […]
What Is A Miner Activated Soft Fork (MASF)?
The Bitcoin Network and its underlying blockchain is a programmable money system open for anyone to review and audit. The rules of Bitcoin are governed by the code Bitcoin Core code base, and every node ensures the rules are checked against every block, while miners need to abide by the rules if they want to […]
What Is An Electrum Server?
Running your own Bitcoin node is the best way to grasp the Bitcoin experience and what is involved in managing your own money. It eliminates custodians and intermediaries and gives you the highest level of security possible since you’re interacting directly with the chain. While many first-time Bitcoiners are rightly concerned with the movement of […]
What is Nix Bitcoin?
Participating in the Bitcoin network can be as simple or as complicated as you want to be; the simpler your involvement, the more you’re offloading tasks to third parties. If you’re not taking self-custody of your Bitcoin in a wallet where you hold the private keys, then you’re likely using a custodial service or an […]
What Is The Validating Lightning Signer?
The Lightning Network has given the ordinary Bitcoiner the ability to send and receive satoshis outside of the base chain, allowing for cheap, near-instant transactions, which makes it ideal for day-to-day payments, but there is a trade-off. When you anchor funds into a Lightning channel using an on-chain UTXO, you have to commit those funds […]
Create Custodial LND Accounts With Lightning Terminal
The Lightning Network has become the go-to layer for the average bitcoiner due to its ability to provide relatively reliable, cheap payments with instant settlement. These attributes make the Lightning Network ideal for everyday commerce and value exchange. We can make some assumptions about how the adoption of Lightning grows by looking at some avaialble […]
What Is Floresta?
Bitcoin’s core value proposition is decentralisation, where no one has superior power over the network, and anyone can connect directly to it with a very low barrier to entry. To use bitcoin, all you need is software, you could run a simple set up with a bitcoin wallet and node all running on an old […]
How To Fix A Stuck Umbrel Bitcoin Node
I recently checked up on my Umbrel node to install some apps and play around and noticed that my bitcoin node was not syncing; it constantly remained stuck on “starting”. Yet when I booted it up again, it remained in that same starting state for days, so clearly, it needed more than some downtime or […]