What Is A Stowaway Transaction?
When using an open public ledger to transfer funds, you must make peace with the fact that anyone can see your transaction data, such as time, addresses, amounts and more. If you’re unaware of this, you could also leak additional data that can tie those transactions to you and future transactions. Since Bitcoin is a […]
What Is A Stonewall Transaction?
Bitcoin is a permissionless digital currency that is designed to be secure and censorship-resistant while also retaining some elements of privacy. If you were to use Bitcoin without KYC, you could take advantage of its pseudonymous nature; unfortunately, this isn’t a reality for most people. Today, many new Bitcoin holders acquire their funds through centralised […]
What Are Lightning Prisms?
Bitcoin is often spoken about as hard money, with a robust protocol that cannot be changed; while these ideas should be championed, it often leaves people thinking that Bitcoin cannot be upgraded or used in new and innovative ways. Despite some parts of Bitcoin being hard to change, it still programmable money, which means that […]
What Is A Statechain CoinJoin?
Bitcoin is an open monetary network that anyone can use as long as they have the software to communicate with the network. Your method of interacting with the network can be as simple as using a software wallet and broadcasting via a third-party node, or you can talk to the network directly via your own […]
How To Use PayJoin Using Nostr
Nostr is an open protocol designed to be a community-driven platform; the first use case for the protocol has been short-form social media content clients that mimic the Twitter experience. While this use case remains the primary use of the protocol, it’s not the only way to use it, and we’ve seen long-form content hosting clients […]
What Are Bitcoin Silent Payments?
When you become your own bank by taking self-custody of your funds, you are not only responsible for the safeguarding of your assets but also the data you leak and how you intend to preserve your financial privacy. A task that becomes more dubious as the Bitcoin network has many prying eyes, and chain analysis […]
What Is A Bitcoin Darkpool?
In an era where data is the new gold or oil, and big tech is thirsting over every piece of metadata they can pry from your fingers, privacy is a fast-eroding commodity. While many are not too concerned with the privacy of their social media posts, search engine queries, emails or cloud-stored documents and files. […]
Considerations Before You CoinJoin
In the ever-evolving world of Bitcoin, privacy remains a top concern for many users. The fact that your wealth is open for all to see is a real concern for many who choose to save in Bitcoin. None of us want the entire world to know what amount of wealth we own, nor where we […]
What Is BIP324?
One of the major selling points of Bitcoin is that no third party can interfere with your use of the network should you have direct communication methods by running your own node. Every day, Bitcoiners use their nodes to broadcast transactions to the network without much issue, but that doesn’t mean the process cannot be […]
What Are Lightning CoinJoins?
In today’s digital age, we spend a considerable amount of time online creating data footprints that companies catalogue to use for a host of purposes. Our movements, our speech, our intentions and even our financial transactions are all tracked and catalogued. They are sold on data markets to allow certain companies to create powerful data […]