Why Hashing Algorithm Changes Don’t Stop Centralised Mining
When the BLAKE2b hard fork split from Bitcoin, one of its core selling points was democratising mining by abandoning SHA-256d for an algorithm that’s friendlier to CPUs and GPUs; the change promised to sideline the industrial ASIC farms that dominate Bitcoin mining and hand the network back to ordinary miners with consumer hardware. It’s a […]
Beware Of BIP110/Blake BTC Scams
If you own Bitcoin, you should be aware of chatter over the last few weeks about “BIP110,” “Blake2b,” and a potential chain that will split away from Bitcoin’s main network with a proof-of-work change and act as a competing network. Opinions on this fork are all over the map — some people see it as […]
What Is Bitcoin Purity?
Bitcoin Purity is the latest, and arguably strangest, offshoot of the BIP 110 saga. Where the BLAKE2b hard fork responded to BIP 110’s failed soft fork activation by launching a clean break — new proof-of-work algorithm, new branding, an openly separate coin — Bitcoin Purity has taken the opposite approach entirely. Its mainnet went live […]
What Is Replay Protection?
When a blockchain network like Bitcoin splits into two chains through a hard fork, the two incompatible networks face a critical engineering question that determines whether the split is orderly or a genuine mess for users. Does the new chain implement replay protection? It sounds like a minor technical footnote, but its absence can cause […]
What Is The BLAKE2b Hard Fork?
If you’ve seen the term “Blake2B” floating around Bitcoin forums and X threads, and you’re wondering what on earth these guys are going on about, it’s almost certainly BLAKE2b — the proof-of-work algorithm at the centre of Bitcoin’s recent hard fork attempt. It’s been one of those months in Bitcoin where a year happens: from […]
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). […]
Liquid Activates ELIP-203 Hard Fork
On June 1, 2026, Liquid Network successfully activated ELIP-203, a coordinated hard fork that removes a constraint from the Bitcoin sidechain that was part of its legacy launch, and is a sign that the chain is looking to expand its reach beyond being just another way to move Bitcoin off-chain. Lightning has already captured the majority […]
What Is The eCash Fork?
In August 2026, Bitcoin will undergo a fork with a new chain emerging if Paul Sztorc and Layer 2 Labs follow through with their plans. It’s been a while since we’ve seen a fork following the Bitcoin Cash split from the network in 2017 (along with BTG and BSV, which even fewer people care about, […]
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. […]