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 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. …

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. A couple of the aspects that I thought could use some work are related to connectivity and…

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…

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. …

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…

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. …

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…

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…