What Is The Validating Lightning Signer?
The Lightning Network has given the ordinary Bitcoiner the ability to send and receive satoshis outside of the base chain, allowing for cheap, near-instant transactions, which makes it ideal for day-to-day payments, but there is a trade-off. When you anchor funds into a Lightning channel using an on-chain UTXO, you have to commit those funds […]
Create Custodial LND Accounts With Lightning Terminal
The Lightning Network has become the go-to layer for the average bitcoiner due to its ability to provide relatively reliable, cheap payments with instant settlement. These attributes make the Lightning Network ideal for everyday commerce and value exchange. We can make some assumptions about how the adoption of Lightning grows by looking at some avaialble […]
What Is Floresta?
Bitcoin’s core value proposition is decentralisation, where no one has superior power over the network, and anyone can connect directly to it with a very low barrier to entry. To use bitcoin, all you need is software, you could run a simple set up with a bitcoin wallet and node all running on an old […]
How To Fix A Stuck Umbrel Bitcoin Node
I recently checked up on my Umbrel node to install some apps and play around and noticed that my bitcoin node was not syncing; it constantly remained stuck on “starting”. Yet when I booted it up again, it remained in that same starting state for days, so clearly, it needed more than some downtime or […]
What Is Ordisrespector?
Ordinals, the controversial NFT concept living on the bitcoin blockchain, has been a major topic for discussion in recent weeks. Since the introduction of the software, we’ve seen plenty of arguments both for and against these types of transactions. Regardless of where you stand on the topic, the fact is that there has been a […]
What Are Blinded Nostr Assets?
Today many of us create gigabytes of data on ourselves every year in the form of metadata, text, videos, images and voice recordings. These files could be living on your personal device or on servers worldwide as you upload them to various services, like social media sites or industrial cloud storage services. While we’re often […]
How To Manage A Family Lightning Node
With increasing numbers of people investing in bitcoin, the need to securely and safely manage and store digital wallets has become paramount. The amounts we’re managing online are no longer beer money and can be a substantial amount of wealth, so you need to learn to take precautions. We’ve seen so many custodians get it […]
What Is LNDHub?
The emergence of the Lightning Network has given rise to a wave of new financial technology. Today, millions of micropayments are routed through the network each month, moving around as little as a satoshi at a time. Despite the rising popularity of the lightning network, it can still be challenging to navigate and understand this […]
A Nostr Approach To NFTs
Humans have been hard-wired to want to collect things that are deemed scarce, and this programming has been used to fuel trend after trend of collectables. From tulips to beanie babies and now jpegs files with a serial number on a blockchain, trends come around, pull people into a complete frenzy that grows and draws […]
10 Tips To Protect Your Bitcoin Full Node
Are you looking to get involved in the rapidly evolving world of bitcoin and do it in the way it was intended, by taking no custodial risk? Then building a bitcoin full node is a great way to start, and the best part is you don’t need to be a tech guru to do it. […]