Understanding Bitcoin, my four personal epiphanies
Bitcoin is a journey, not a destination. Everyone is on their own path. Every morning, when I studied Bitcoin, I found myself more the fear,...
Happy Birthday Bitcoin!
On this day 12 years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto created the #Bitcoin , Genesis block and without knowing it at the time, changed the world...
Bitcoin Hits $30K for 1st Time Ever
The price of bitcoin (BTC) rocketed past $30,000 for the first time ever Saturday after setting an all-time high the day before, all in...
Bitcoin Halving: Definitive Guide
Bitcoin halving is often referred to as “Halvening”, it’s a formulated reduction in the reward coins offered to the miners using a predefined blockchain...
Bitcoin’s 2020
2020 was unforgettable, especially for Bitcoin. To help memorialize this year for our readers, we asked our network of contributors to reflect on Bitcoin’s...
PayPal allows Bitcoin and cryptocurrency transactions
PayPal allows Bitcoin and cryptocurrency transactions
Just a few years ago, Paypal used to categorically oppose Bitcoin as a payment method. For those who used...
Life After $20K
The cryptocurrency landscape has been obsessed with the famous bull run of Winter 2017, but as bitcoin has surpassed its all-time high price of $19,655,...
Bitcoin Is The Move
Preface
We live in interesting times. With the advances in technology and the proliferation of the internet — software is eating the world. Coming out...
The Battle For P2SH
“Push the date back two months. OP_EVAL just is not ready yet.”
It was the verdict Gavin Andresen had worked so long to avoid. With...
The third Bitcoin Halving is now complete.
As of now, 630,000 blocks have been mined on the Bitcoin network, and the block reward has successfully halved for the THIRD time....
Happy Birthday Bitcoin! Here’s a Look at Bitcoin’s 11th Year by...
On January 3, 2009, the pseudonymous developer(s) Satoshi Nakamoto bootstrapped the Bitcoin network by mining its first ever block, block 0. The Genesis Block,...
Bitcoin 2019 Annual Review
I’ve always been fascinated with the raw numbers relating to the operational status and growth of Bitcoin, especially as we ride the rollercoaster of...
Hashing Ahead: A Look at Bitcoin Mining in 2020
The December 2019 report on the Bitcoin mining network from CoinShares Research, a division of the digital asset management firm, presented an industry in good...
2019: A Light(ning) year of progress
Another year is almost over. For those of us working on Lightning, the pace of change has been so fast that it’s gone by...
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Satoshi Nakamoto
October 31, 2008
Abstract
A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without...
Happy 18,000,000 bitcoins! ?
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/block/00000000000000000007316856900e76b4f7a9139cfbfba89842c8d196cd5f91
2019 - 86%
2024 - 94%
2028 - 97%
2024 is probably when you'll see that last 'parabolic' movement of Bitcoin, after that it will be permanently...
Top 11 Wallets for the Bitcoin Lightning Network
The Lightning Network is allowing Bitcoin to finally fulfill the promise of P2P digital cash that can be transacted instantly for extremely low fees....
Bitcoin is Not Backed by Nothing
Contrary to popular belief, bitcoin is in fact backed by something. It is backed by the only thing that backs any form of money:...
The Inbound Capacity Problem in the Lightning Network
In the last couple of weeks, many people in the Bitcoin community have been talking about inbound capacity in the Lightning Network. The increasing difficulty...
andreas-antonopolous Canadian Senate Testimony on Bitcoin
Let's back in 2014 Andreas M. Antonopoulos gave a speech to the senate of canada about bitcoin, this is over 5 yrs ago... the...