Many of us dabble with Bitcoin but seldom actually get our hands dirty in the nitty-gritty - yet that's often where the benefits lie. Hosting your own Bitcoin node, for example, not only steadies and decentralizes the network, but it can confer greater user privacy and security.
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Lightning Network development startup Lightning Labs is rolling out a new product: dubbed Lightning Pool, the new tool seeks to bring together node operators to trade access inbound and outbound Lightning channel capacity with each other. With the launch, Lightning Labs tackles one of the Lightning Network's major
Last month, the Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs) pertaining to the integration of Taproot and Schnorr signatures were merged into the Bitcoin Core Github. As the BTC Times reported, 150 Bitcoin Core developers approved the merge after seven weeks of review following a merge request first created by Pieter Wuille.
Schnorr
Last month, the Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs) pertaining to the integration of Taproot and Schnorr signatures were merged into the Bitcoin Core Github. As the BTC Times reported, 150 Bitcoin Core developers approved the merge after seven weeks of review following a merge request first created by Pieter Wuille.
Schnorr
Many of us dabble with Bitcoin but seldom actually get our hands dirty in the nitty-gritty - yet that's often where the benefits lie. Hosting your own Bitcoin node, for example, not only steadies and decentralizes the network, but it can confer greater user privacy and security.
For
Lightning Network development startup Lightning Labs is rolling out a new product: dubbed Lightning Pool, the new tool seeks to bring together node operators to trade access inbound and outbound Lightning channel capacity with each other. With the launch, Lightning Labs tackles one of the Lightning Network's major
Today marks the Bitcoin white paper's 12th birthday: on October 31st of 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published to the Cryptography Mailing List the nine pages that made history. Since then, the world’s first peer-to-peer electronic cash system has come a long way.
Since Satoshi sent the first 50
Non-custodial Bitcoin desktop wallet Wasabi Wallet has gained considerable traction since its launch as a preferred tool for bitcoiners seeking increased transactional privacy. Wasabi is possibly best known for its integrated CoinJoin solution, a privacy-enhancing technology that obfuscates the origin of UTXOs.
On Thursday, the developers behind Wasabi Wallet announced
Over the past few days, multiple users on Twitter have noted a decline in the Bitcoin user experience. Transaction fees have increased from an average of $1-3 toward $7 and beyond.
This is the result of a drop in the Bitcoin network hash rate. The hash rate is the metric
Announced on October 23rd, Riccardo Casatta has received a grant of an undisclosed amount by Square Crypto. Square Crypto is the Bitcoin-focused development branch of $80 billion financial technology company Square.
Casatta is a Blockstream engineer currently on sabbatical as he intends to work on the Bitcoin Development Kit with
Paypal is entering the cryptocurrency space: the firm has announced it will allow account holders in the U.S. to buy, sell, and hold bitcoin in their PayPal wallets over the coming weeks.
The payments giant will also enable users to spend bitcoin through its network of 26 million merchants
