Bitcoin Reduces Needless Consumption For Small Businesses

Needless consumption in small businesses

Running a small business is hard work; sometimes, it can feel like the sucker’s choice; why would you take on all this risk, do all this unpaid or extra work in the hope that there is a potentially bigger payoff sometime in the future. When you become an entrepreneur, you take your time, capital and […]

The Risks Of Stablecoins On Bitcoin

Stablecoins on Bitcoin

Stablecoins are by no means a new idea; the first version of it was launched nearly ten years ago, in 2014, with BitUSD issued as a token on the BitShare blockchain; this was an algorithmic stablecoin backed by the debt of another third-party token BitShares, which faded into obscurity as did many of the early […]

What Are Bitcoin Silent Payments?

BTC silent payments

When you become your own bank by taking self-custody of your funds, you are not only responsible for the safeguarding of your assets but also the data you leak and how you intend to preserve your financial privacy. A task that becomes more dubious as the Bitcoin network has many prying eyes, and chain analysis […]

What Is A Sparse Merkle Tree?

Sparse Merkle Tree

As we navigate through the technological revolution of the 21st century, few buzzwords have captured the public imagination as much as “blockchain.” Blockchains are a component of the ingenious invention of Bitcoin, the brainchild of an individual or group known as Satoshi Nakamoto, and due to Bitcoins success, the underlying technology of blockchain has been […]

What Is A Bitcoin Darkpool?

Bitcoin Dark Pools

In an era where data is the new gold or oil, and big tech is thirsting over every piece of metadata they can pry from your fingers, privacy is a fast-eroding commodity. While many are not too concerned with the privacy of their social media posts, search engine queries, emails or cloud-stored documents and files. […]

The Limitations Of Inscriptions

Limitations on inscriptions

Throughout history, humanity has developed tools to make their life easier; when we come up with a new tool, we will look at every possible problem it can solve. That is the nature of the experimentation and how we progress and find solutions.  For every solution we have today, there were a million missteps and […]

The Pros & Cons Of Ledger Recover

Pros and cons of ledger recover

Hardware wallet maker Ledger has been synonymous with cold storing your funds for many years now. They’ve had a solid track record distributing millions of devices worldwide, and if you’ve been in Bitcoin long enough, it might have been your first wallet or is part of your collection, used as a single signature device or […]

What Is MuSig2?

Musig2 on bitcoin

As a Bitcoin user, you’re using digital signatures along with specific messages to prove you’re the sender and that this is a legitimate command by you, the owner of the private key. These digital signatures are to show that you know the private key associated with an address without exposing your key to the network. […]

How To Navigate A Bloated Bitcoin Mempool

Bloated Mempool

When you commit a transaction to the Bitcoin blockchain, it goes through several phases before being confirmed on-chain. Part of that process is having your transaction added to the mempool. The Bitcoin mempool plays a crucial role in the transaction process, acting as a holding area for unconfirmed transactions.  Usually, your transactions won’t spend too […]

What Are The Types Of Bitcoin Public Keys?

Types of public keys

If you’ve created a Bitcoin wallet before, you should be pretty familiar with the public address or public key. This key is represented by a long string of text with letters and numbers generated by your wallet, which you can use to receive funds.  When you generate a public address, your wallet uses your private […]

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