Bitcoin Magazine SLICE: Making PPLNS Work for Demand Response Bitcoin mining has come a long way since the days of GPUs and basement set ups. In that time, miners have advanced in countless ways. For example, ASICs are now the standard, not GPUs. Furthermore, enterprise grade players have entered the field, opening new frontiers and […]
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Bitcoin Magazine secp256k1lab: An INSECURE Python Library That Makes Bitcoin Safer Until now, every Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) that needed cryptographic primitives had to reinvent the wheel. Each one came bundled with its own custom Python implementation of the secp256k1 elliptic curve and related algorithms, each subtly different from one another. These inconsistencies introduced quiet
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Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Core Developer Antoine Poinsot: The Great Consensus Cleanup While attending the MIT Bitcoin Expo earlier this month I was able to sit down with Bitcoin Core developer Antoine Poinsot. Currently at Chaincode Labs, Antoine was previously at Wizardsardine, a bitcoin security company behind Revault, a pre-signed transaction based vault, and Liana, a
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This is the second article in a series deep diving into individual covenant proposals that have reached a point of maturity meriting an in-depth breakdown. CHECKSIGFROMSTACK (CSFS), put forward by Brandon Black and Jeremy Rubin with BIP 348, is not a covenant. As I said in the introductory article to this series, some of the
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Today, Breez launches Misty Breez, their latest application built using the Breez SDK. The Breez SDK was initially developed to simplify the process of integrating Lightning Network support into different consumer applications. Dozens of existing projects and companies currently build on Lightning using the SDK. The SDK supports two methods of Lightning integration. Native, which
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The is the first article deep diving into individual covenant proposals that have reached a point of maturity meriting an in depth breakdown. CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (CTV), put forward by Jeremy Rubin with BIP 119, is the most mature and fully fleshed out covenant proposal, not only out of the proposals we will be covering, but out
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