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Demonstration of “Attack Blocks” On Bitcoin’s Signet Test Network

This Wednesday, Bitcoin developers will demonstrate "attack blocks" taking advantage of a consensus vulnerability on the Signet test network.

The Core Issue: Beneath The Binary, Verifying Trust

From The Core Issue: A look at what Bitcoin Core developers do to ensure the software running on your computer is actually the code they wrote.

The Core Issue: Your Node Vs. The Digital Wilderness

From The Core Issue: A look at what it takes to defend your Bitcoin node against the myriad of threats from the wider internet.

The Core Issue: Outrunning Entropy, Why Bitcoin Can’t Stand Still

From The Core Issue: A breakdown at the optimizations and fine-tuning done to speed up Initial Block Download for Bitcoin Core users.

Bitcoin Has a Golden Opportunity With AI Agents, It’s Time to Build

Bitcoin finally has a real payments advantage in the world of agentic payments. We all have to pitch in to capitalize on it.

The Core Issue: Consensus Cleanup

From The Core Issue: A look at BIP 54, a softfork proposal to fix four outstanding bugs in Bitcoin's core consensus protocol.

Bitcoin Is The Collateral, It Just Needs The Credit Markets

A deep look at the landscape of Bitcoin collateralized loans, and the cutting edge of technology that could rock the boat.

The Core Issue: Why Bitcoin Needed A Remodel With Segwit and Taproot

From The Core Issue: A look back at Segregated Witness and Taproot, Bitcoin's two largest upgrades, and why they were designed the way they were.

The Core Issue: libsecp256k1, Bitcoin’s Cryptographic Heart

From The Core Issue: The story of what started out as a "small hobby project" library, evolving into one of the most security-critical code paths for protecting a multi-trillion dollar asset.

The Core Issue: Keeping Bitcoin Core Secure

From The Core Issue: a look at how Bitcoin Core handles security vulnerability disclosures, testing for bugs, and patching them.

The Core Issue: Cluster Mempool, Problems Are Easier In Chunks

From The Core Issue: A look at Cluster Mempool, a rearchitecting of how your node's mempool is organized and managed.

Satoshi’s Exercise for the Reader

The Bitcoin whitepaper is clear about Bitcoin’s core feature: it is permissionless. Anyone in the world can pay anyone by joining the peer-to-peer network...

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