How Hardware Wallets Generate Entropy?
The recent draining of over 1000 Bitcoin from air-gapped COLDCARD wallets has many of us scratching our heads, wondering how this could have happened. While the dust still has to settle, and information will come out in the post-mortem of CoinKite’s operations, attention is now turned to all hardware wallet vendors. If one of the […]
What Is the RGB Protocol on Bitcoin?
RGB Protocol on Bitcoin (v0.11.1) is an open-source protocol for issuing and transferring digital assets directly on Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, without any change to Bitcoin’s base layer. It is not a third layer stacked on top of Lightning: RGB runs on Bitcoin’s base layer (Layer 1) and integrates natively with Lightning (Layer 2). […]
What Is Quantum Recovery of Bitcoin?
There has been a lot of chatter surrounding Bitcoin’s longevity as a network, as research on quantum computers gains traction, with some claims circulating that a viable device is less than a decade away, which, if true, will have massive implications for not only Bitcoin but the entire web from a privacy and security perspective. […]
What Is BIP-110?
The rollout of Core 30 has done little to settle the debate over transactions with arbitrary data, with the monetary maximalist side of Bitcoin supporters offering up a few consensus change proposals of their own. One being The CAT, which is a rather aggressive proposal that has already ruffled several feathers, but I think it was […]
The Cat in the Taproot Wizards Hat
The bull market we thought we would get in 2025 never arrived, and because we’re not enjoying a year of up-only markets smashing $150 000 and beyond, the community has turned its attention away from NGU and toward each other. We need something to entertain ourselves and someone to blame for the lack of a […]
What Is A Dark Mempool?
When performing an on-chain transaction, you must first broadcast it into a waiting room known as the mempool. You can do this using your node, or broadcast your transaction via a third-party node, and eventually, your transaction details will make the rounds. As other nodes pick up the transaction, it’s added to their local mempool […]
What Is Citrea?
Bitcoin has proven it’s the only real innovation in the blockchain space, while altcoins have made for interesting experiments with real money, real lives and real crimes, no other chain has come close to Bitcoin. With each 4-year (bull & bear) cycle that goes by, Bitcoin continues to lap these other ecosystems, draining liquidity, users, […]
Regulatory Arbitrage Versus True Bitcoin Scaling
As more people find their way into Bitcoin, it puts pressure on block space, the limited resource available every 10 minutes. That limit might not be obvious right now, but we have reached periods where demand has reached the upper bound.  The mempool doesn’t tell us the full story either, since a lot of Bitcoin […]
What Is Quantum-Resistant Address Migration Protocol?
Google’s latest quantum chip, named “Willow,” is a 105-qubit processor that significantly reduces errors as it scales up, which is a major breakthrough in quantum error correction, and can perform computations in minutes that would take supercomputers 10 septillion years. While Willow may not be ready for real-world applications, Its speed and accuracy could provide hackers with the […]
What Is Frostr?
Ah, the private key, the single point of failure that will lead to heartbreak for many a Bitcoiner or nostr user who fails to guard their seed phrase, a painful reminder of what it means to take personal responsibility over your funds or your data. Both Bitcoin and nostr use private and public key pairs; […]