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 […]
Eligius Mining Pool Relaunches As OCEAN
In the ever-evolving world of Bitcoin mining, the launch of OCEAN marks a significant step towards a new age in Bitcoin mining. As Stratum V2 lays the foundation for individual miners to have more autonomy and take back some of the tasks that early miners once handled before pools were the norm, new pools like DEMAND, OCEAN […]
The First Stratum V2 Mining Pool Rollout
Bitcoin, the world’s first and most prominent decentralised network, has revolutionised the financial landscape by introducing an open network that anyone can join or participate in and the launch of a truly native digital currency. Despite the decentralised nature of the Bitcoin network through its many nodes and distributed Bitcoin mining structure, mining pools have […]
Can Taproot Assets Migrate BRC-20 Mania?
BRC-20 tokens started out as a joke, an experimental token standard using the ordinals protocol, with some clear issues that even its creator claimed were flawed from the start. Even the creator of the ordinal theory on Bitcoin has proposed an alternative implementation in Runes. It was never meant to be anything but a novelty use case for […]
BitVM Could Enable 2-Way Pegs
Bitcoin can scale through side chains by offloading transactions to separate blockchains that are linked to the main Bitcoin blockchain. Sidechains allow for faster and more efficient transaction processing, as they do not have to adhere to the same strict consensus rules as the main blockchain. This can help to lower transaction fees and congestion […]
What Is A FediMint Federation?
Taking complete ownership of your funds is one of Bitcoin’s killer apps, given the fact that all you need is 12 to 24 words, and you have an entire banking infrastructure set up for you. Self-custody of Bitcoin is crucial for users as it gives them complete control over their private keys, ownership over their […]
Why Ordinals Don’t Move To The Liquid Sidechain?
Bitcoin is a censorship-resistant and permissionless system that allows us to exchange value online. Transactions can come in different sizes and perform various actions, like CoinJoins or opening and closing Lightning channels. Still, they will always be confirmed if you follow the consensus rules. If consensus is not broken, you’re free to play around and use your Bitcoin […]