Apr
06
Bitcoin Address Poisoning Attacks
An investigation into likely address poisoning attacks occurring on the bitcoin blockchain.
5 min read
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Mar
16
Against Allowing Quantum Recovery of Bitcoin
An argument in favor of burning bitcoin in vulnerable addresses to prevent funds from being taken by those who win the quantum computing race.
20 min read
Mar
02
A Treatise on Bitcoin Block Space Economics
A deep dive into the multitude of concerns regarding the supply of and demand for block space.
25 min read
Jan
05
Bitcoin 2024 Annual Review
Comprehensive coverage of metrics across a number of different verticals in the Bitcoin ecosystem to gauge performance in 2024.
21 min read
Nov
24
Boost Your Bitcoin Node Sync With UTXO Snapshots
A guide for how to significantly speed up syncing a new Bitcoin Core node using the UTXO snapshot feature.
3 min read
Nov
03
On Ossification
An impassioned argument for why we should continue striving to improve the Bitcoin protocol.
17 min read
Oct
20
Slow Block Validation Attacks
Calculating the potential attack effectiveness of an adversarial miner publishing bitcoin blocks that are difficult to validate.
3 min read
Aug
23
Problems with Coinbase Withdrawal Fees
An analysis of odd transaction fee issues when withdrawing bitcoin from Coinbase.
5 min read
Aug
13
How Many Bitcoin Seed Phrases Are Only One Repeated Word?
An exploration into the combinatoric math behind seed phrase mnemonics and their checksums.
4 min read
May
04
Griefing Bitcoin's Testnet
A deep dive into manipulation of block generation on testnet and a call to reset the network to fix several issues.
11 min read