Today, Blockstream has announced the addition of six members to Liquid, its federated Bitcoin sidechain. These members include Bitcoin wallet…
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Reflections on Bitcoin at the Third Halving – Bitcoin Magazine
For only the third time in history, Bitcoin’s mining subsidy was cut in half this month. It was a moment…
Watch These Bitcoin Presentations From the Halving – Bitcoin Magazine
The Bitcoin mining subsidy halving is a once-every-210,000-blocks event during which attention from all over the world is pointed at…
The Future of Lightning Plugins Is Bright – Bitcoin Magazine
Trying to navigate the different Lightning implementations can be a challenge. Although there were initially three implementations: c-lightning, eclair and…
Bitcoin Mining Marches On – Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Mining, Coronavirus and the Halving
CoinShares, a New York-based cryptocurrency service that provides advice and other services for investors, released a statement on the state…
The Blockstream Satellite Network: Maintaining Bitcoin Sovereignty in Space
In August 2017, Blockstream made an unprecedented and invaluable contribution to Bitcoin by starting a free satellite service that streams…
Hashing Ahead: A Look at Bitcoin Mining in 2020
The December 2019 report on the Bitcoin mining network from CoinShares Research, a division of the digital asset management firm,…
Miniscript: How Blockstream Engineers Are Making Bitcoin Programming Easy(er)
Bitcoin offered the first smart contract programming language the world had ever seen. Script, as this language is called, lets…
Miniscript: How Blockstream Engineers Are Making Bitcoin Programming Easy(er)
Bitcoin offered the first smart contract programming language the world had ever seen. Script, as this language is called, lets…
Messaging via Blockstream’s Satellite: Lightning’s Killer App?
The Blockstream Satellite might just be the Lightning Network killer app. Until recently, it was a pretty, cypherpunk experiment which…