What Are Real World Asset Tokens?
Real-world assets, or RWAs, refer broadly to any traditional security or physical asset that derives its value from outside the blockchain, unlike the closed-loop ecosystem that Bitcoin provides. Think of it as a 3rd party representation of the underlying asset; these tokens can represent stock certificates or bonds, they could be NFTs that represent non-fungible […]
What Is Bitcoin Block Art?
It’s been a quiet few months when it comes to on-chain graffiti; it seems like a lifetime ago, Ordinals enjoyers claimed they broke Bitcoin, and the mempool was stuffed to the brim with inscription-based transactions. For a while, the mempool was more of a meme pool as the trend of stuffing JPEGs and JSON files into blocks had its […]
What Is Block Propagation?
Bitcoin is a blockchain-based network comprised of thousands of nodes distributed worldwide that remain connected and communicate through a gossip-based flooding protocol. When a block is successfully mined, that mined block is propagated to all participating nodes in the network and added to the chain. All nodes must remain synchronised with the latest transactions so […]
What Is An Orphan Block?
The Bitcoin blockchain is a distributed ledger held on all full nodes running right now and all full nodes that will sync from the Genesis block to the current chain state. This ledger keeps records of all past Bitcoin transactions and is added to roughly every ten minutes when a new block is secured. Anyone […]
What Is Additive Batching?
Bitcoin has the ambition of becoming a global settlement network, but the network faces growing pains as more users flood the blockchain with transactions. There are distinct limitations in the number of transactions that can be pushed through and receive final confirmation on chain, and the fee market is used to balance and order transactions. […]
What Is ‘Liquid Staking’ on Lightning?
The Lightning Network is a second-layer payment protocol that enables instant and low-cost Bitcoin transactions. It does this by connecting a network of payment channels between users who opt to run their own Lightning nodes. These channels allow users to send and receive payments without having to rely on the Bitcoin blockchain for every confirmation. As a […]
Why Exchanges Are Launching Their Own Chains
If you’re planning on acquiring some Bitcoin, or you’ve already bought Bitcoin, chances are you conducted the transaction with a Centralised Exchange (CEX). These companies act as intermediaries between buyers and sellers, who trade in real-time in different parts of the world. Instead of trading on-chain and P2P, users would hand over custody of their […]
What Is The Liquid Federation?
Bitcoin’s ability to scale is limited by design trade-offs made in the past that optimise for security and decentralisation; as a result of no compromise on those two pillars of the network, scalability on-chain is sacrificed. Today the number of transactions the network can safely secure with every block would not be able to support […]
How Is Bitcoin Secured?
This question is a bit like a dice in that it has multiple sides to how you can answer it. If we’re talking about how to safely secure your Bitcoin then I’d point you towards one of the many cold wallet solutions where you withdraw your Bitcoin from an exchange to these wallets and keep […]