What Is A Unilateral Exit?
Bitcoin operates as a decentralised network, meaning no single entity controls it. Transactions are recorded on a public ledger (blockchain), fostering transparency and trust. The ledger is maintained by thousands of nodes distributed around the world, making it impossible to change or censor. These attributes resonate with users who value freedom from central banks and […]
What Is Hedgehog?
Super Testnet, a freelance developer focused on Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, is known for developing some rather novel ideas and pushing them out to drive discussion and innovation. Every so often, the tinkerer pops up with a new proof of concept and leaves some of us scratching our heads as we try to keep […]
What Is Pathcoin?
We’ve all heard of Bitcoin as a digital currency, a revolutionary way to exchange value online. Internet native money used by cartels to launder money, ones and zeros used to purchase drugs via online marketplaces, and digital beanie babies are ideal for somewhere scams. Yes, Bitcoin has been used for those types of transactions, but […]
What Is OP_CAT?
Bitcoin upgrades are a contentious subject; whenever they are brought up in conversion, as you can rightly imagine, a larger portion of the population joins in and places their monetary value into the network each year. Now that we’re sitting in the trillion-dollar range, making any changes to Bitcoin becomes a monumental task. You’ll find […]
What Is Anduro?
Bitcoin has changed how we transfer value online, allowing users to transfer funds without an intermediary. It has chugged along nicely over the last decade, increasing its user base yearly. While several bull cycles have come and gone, on-chain transactions could meet demand interest, and the user base was manageable. Yes, there were a few […]
Access The Lightning Network In Africa With Strike
Speaking as a South African Bitcoiner, the country that has the most developed Bitcoin market on the continent, with several exchanges available to us with support for our local banking rails, it’s still hard to get a hold of Bitcoin, mainly when these exchanges and apps aren’t focused on pushing Bitcoin or self-custody. As someone who […]
The Battle For Layer Two Liquidity
Altcoin tech bros have had a change of heart; they no longer want to surpass Bitcoin, but help it; oh, how sweet, how kind, helping this old crypto lady across the street. It seems as if every few weeks, a new project springs up, claiming it will be a layer two solution for Bitcoin, ready to […]
What Is Nucleus?
The Lightning Network has brought some much-needed throughput to the Bitcoin ecosystem, allowing ordinary users to create their own peer-to-peer network of payment channels and route funds cheaply and instantly without the need for block confirmation every time. This second-layer solution is by far the most popular when it comes to off-chain scaling options, holding over […]
What Are Inviscriptions?
Bitcoin is marketed by many as a decentralised and censorship-resistant network that is committed to transaction finality. As long as you pay the fees and broadcast your transaction, you will see it added into the next block or a few blocks after that, depending on how busy the network is and how competitive your transaction […]
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 […]