Bitcoin Blocksize War

The Blocksize War was a chaotic event at around 2015. It was a nerdy fight seemingly about the size of the blocks that should be in the bitcoin network, but it uncovered a lot more than that. It showed the ugly underbelly of human greed, attempts at controlling the network, Read more…

Bitcoin Blockchain

The blockchain is a distributed append-only database. While it’s an essential part of the bitcoin engine, it’s not really a thing that can successfully be applied to other technologies despite what people might believe. The longest blockchain, meaning the one with the most Proof-of-Work on it, is always the true Read more…

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…