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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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
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
Jun
22
Effects of DBcache Size on Bitcoin Node Sync Speed
An investigation into tradeoffs between different dbcache sizes when performing a full bitcoin node sync.
3 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
Dec
16
Economically Unspendable Bitcoin UTXOs
UTXO management guidance for avoiding footguns that can cause problems during times of high transaction fees.
3 min read
Sep
18
An Introduction to Spiderchain
A review of the latest layer 2 protocol proposed for pegging bitcoin to a sidechain.
13 min read
Aug
05
Revisiting Bitcoin Network Bandwidth Issues
A deep dive into bandwidth bottlenecks and potential solutions for improving node syncing performance.
7 min read