What Are Multinut Payments?
If Bitcoin is to transition from a store of value towards a regular medium of exchange, aka how we pay for goods and services daily, using on-chain payments will not cut it. On-chain confirmation speeds and fees are the obvious deterrents to regular Bitcoin commerce. Block space is predicted to become increasingly rare as more people […]
How To Find BTC eCash Mints
Becoming your own bank has drawbacks, and Bitcoin users are finding that out the hard way. The days of having all your coins on-chain and paying negligible fees are slowly starting to erode, and we have to accept that certain financial transactions will never make sense on-chain. This leaves a new Bitcoin holder; you must […]
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 […]
What Is BitStream?
It’s been a long and winding bear market, with many so-called “hodlers” jumping ship, as builders giving up on their projects or putting them on pause as markets aren’t as liquid as they were during a bull market. The previous all-time high was two years ago, and as the market deflated, it’s been a slow […]
What Are Fedi Modules?
Bitcoin is a decentralised network that allows us to transact using purely digital money. It has the potential to revolutionise the way we think about money, saving, payments and commerce. It is not controlled by any central authority, and it can be used to send and receive payments anywhere in the world without the need […]
What Is Fedimint Stability Pool?
When it comes to bitcoin, there’s no shortage of hullabaloo around the price volatility. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told I will lose all my money, and in fiat terms, I have, but that would be under the assumption I would know how and when to sell at the top. A […]
What Is Fedipool?
Bitcoin transactions get verified through the process of mining, a method of providing computational power to secure the bitcoin network and protect it against attack. A bitcoin miner can submit its calculation proofs as hash rate directly to the network and compete with all other miners doing the same for the latest block. After every […]
What Are eCash Multi-Mint Swaps?
Onboarding users into bitcoin is no simple task; the average user is simply not ready to handle money in a self-sovereign manner the way on-chain and the Lightning Network demand. To manage your bitcoin safely and privately, you’ll need to run a node and use bitcoin privacy best practices, and this takes time to learn […]
How To Send eCash Tokens To Nostr Users
Nostr has taken the bitcoin ecosystem by storm, with many a pleb signing up to use the protocol and testing out available clients. One widespread use for Nostr is sending users satoshis via the Lightning Network; users would post invoices or assign a static LN-URL to accounts in the early days to facilitate payments. As […]