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Independently Validating the Blockstream Satellite Downlink

The Blockstream Satellite service broadcasts Bitcoin blockchain data (transactions and blocks), Lightning Network gossip data snapshots, and Bitcoin full node source code from geosynchronous satellites blanketing most of the world. The service is essentially acting as a relay for a Bitcoin Core node which Blockstream operates. In the context of…

Satellite Technology

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Validating the Blockstream Satellite Downlink
Validating the Blockstream Satellite Downlink
Satellite Technology

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Blockstream Engineering Blog

·Apr 15, 2022

Build a Pretty Good Lightning Network Node

Lightning, at a high level, is ultimately just software running on a group of online computers to form a network. Users are free to join and leave the network with their own individual nodes, much like how they can for the underlying consensus layer — Bitcoin. Lightning node software is…

Lightning Network

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Build a Pretty Good Lightning Network Node
Build a Pretty Good Lightning Network Node
Lightning Network

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Blockstream Engineering Blog

·Mar 17, 2022

Automate Lightning Node Management with CLBOSS

Lightning is a micropayments network built on top of Bitcoin. It’s pretty great, and it lets you send bitcoin around instantaneously instead of waiting around for a block to be mined. Lightning elevates Bitcoin into a new paradigm of trustless digital cash that can not be achieved purely with on-chain…

Lightning Network

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Automate Lightning Node Management with CLBOSS
Automate Lightning Node Management with CLBOSS
Lightning Network

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Feb 3, 2022

Solo Mining with Blockstream Satellite

In light of some recent awesome events in the Bitcoin mining sphere, I was inspired to set up my own small 4 MH/s solo mining operation and see how I could improve it. …

Bitcoin

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Solo Mining with Blockstream Satellite
Solo Mining with Blockstream Satellite
Bitcoin

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Sep 21, 2021

Ethereum is Maximalist

The cryptocurrency industry over the last few years has adopted the phrase “Bitcoin maximalist” to describe Bitcoiners. Its etymology can be traced back to the creator of Ethereum. The phrase is used in the industry predominantly as a pejorative to describe Bitcoiners who reject the claim that other tokens besides…

Bitcoin

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Ethereum is Maximalist
Ethereum is Maximalist
Bitcoin

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Blockstream Engineering Blog

·Mar 22, 2021

Running c-lightning on OpenBSD ⚡️🐡

Power your Lightning node with OpenBSD to reduce its attack surface The Lightning Network has grown tremendously since it reached the Bitcoin mainnet back in early 2018. …

Bitcoin

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Run c-lightning on OpenBSD ⚡️🐡
Run c-lightning on OpenBSD ⚡️🐡
Bitcoin

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Blockstream Engineering Blog

·Feb 24, 2021

Benchmarking c-lightning

Stay humble. Stack stats. Unlike Bitcoin nodes, which must process all payments on the network, Lightning nodes only process the payments routed through them. Therefore the bottleneck to payment throughput becomes a matter of connection latency, hardware performance, and channel liquidity (depending on the payment size). Blockstream’s c-lightning implementation is…

Lightning Network

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Benchmarking c-lightning
Benchmarking c-lightning
Lightning Network

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Blockstream Engineering Blog

·Feb 9, 2021

Orbital Data Freighting With Blockstream Satellite

Blockstream Satellite is a service which provides a broadcast of Bitcoin blockchain data, Lightning Network gossip data, and users’ custom data via a network of geosynchronous satellites. …

Bitcoin

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Orbital Data Freighting With Blockstream Satellite
Orbital Data Freighting With Blockstream Satellite
Bitcoin

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Blockstream Engineering Blog

·Dec 17, 2020

Native Confidential Assets on the Liquid Network

How to issue your own digital asset in less than a minute on Liquid — tl;dr: Liquid makes it exceptionally easy to issue new assets. Scroll down to skip the tech details to learn how to start issuing assets. Modern Native Assets Legacy platforms today rely on smart contract developers handwriting or customizing already written code in order to issue tokens or assets. This has unfortunately resulted in…

Blockchain

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Native Confidential Assets on the Liquid Network
Native Confidential Assets on the Liquid Network
Blockchain

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Aug 11, 2020

Don’t Trust. Verify.

I’ve been inspired to write a post about something that occurred recently on Bitcoin Twitter that is important to document. What happened was a clash of Bitcoin values and thing-that-isn’t-Bitcoin values. This is important to document because it shows a few things. But before I can explain why it was…

Cryptocurrency

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Don’t Trust. Verify.
Don’t Trust. Verify.
Cryptocurrency

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