Bitcoin Anchoring

Bitcoin’s blockchain can be used for more than just transfers of BTC between peers. It can also be used to create an immutable timestamped record of small amounts of data, which enables other protocols and applications to make use of Bitcoin’s security properties in what is called data anchoring. Absolut Read more

Bitcoin Archaeology

The immutable blockchain provides a very interesting case. The distributed ledger of bitcoin transactions can be accessed by anyone running a node. People are already analysing wallet age, transactions, UTXOs, everything, in order to mine data and draw conclusions. We can only expect this practice to grow into its own Read more

Bitcoin Node

The humble node that can run on an old computer or even on a Raspberry Pi, stores the entire blockchain, forwards and validates transactions and makes sure that the rules of the network are enforced. It’s the only way to fully trust that the bitcoin shown in your wallet is Read more