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MEVpool, The Best Bandaid We Have For MEV

MEVpool, The Best Bandaid We Have For MEV

Bitcoin Magazine MEVpool, The Best Bandaid We Have For MEV Miner Extractable Value. That phrase is essentially one of the biggest fundamental risk spaces that exist for blockchain based systems. The original conception of a blockchain included incentives for miners...

Bitcoin Price Set for Big Move as Volatility Drops

Bitcoin Price Set for Big Move as Volatility Drops

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Set for Big Move as Volatility Drops Bitcoin appears to be on the verge of a major price movement, and data suggests that volatility could return in a big way. With Bitcoin’s price action stagnating over the past few weeks, let’s analyze...

How to Use PGP for Enhanced Privacy and Powerful OPSEC

How to Use PGP for Enhanced Privacy and Powerful OPSEC

Bitcoin Magazine How to Use PGP for Enhanced Privacy and Powerful OPSEC In today’s world of constant surveillance and daily data breaches, it’s never been more important to take control of your own privacy. Whether you’re protecting your emails, securing sensitive...

How Local Businesses Can Use Bitcoin For Payments

How Local Businesses Can Use Bitcoin For Payments

Bitcoin Magazine How Local Businesses Can Use Bitcoin For Payments I. Introduction Bitcoin is often praised as a long-term savings technology, but its role as a medium of exchange is just as important—especially for businesses. From local cafés to large corporations,...

FPPS Is Not A Free Lunch For Bitcoin Miners

FPPS Is Not A Free Lunch For Bitcoin Miners

Bitcoin Magazine FPPS Is Not A Free Lunch For Bitcoin Miners Bitcoin mining is a tough business. When one considers deploying economic resources to mine traditional commodities such as gold, copper or oil, prospecting for those resources in the field is always done...

The Next Decade, Part 4: Actual Predictions

The Next Decade, Part 4: Actual Predictions

Bitcoin Magazine The Next Decade, Part 4: Actual Predictions Think back through Bitcoin’s history. I guarantee you a handful of events just popped into your mind first, like landmarks. If you kept thinking your mind probably started filling in from there with those...

USDT on Lightning: the Good, the Bad, and the Unknown

USDT on Lightning: the Good, the Bad, and the Unknown

Bitcoin Magazine USDT on Lightning: the Good, the Bad, and the Unknown Everyone has heard the Chinese proverb British misquote: “May you live in interesting times,” and how it’s supposed to be a curse. It sounds deep, like a quote for edgelords over 80.  But have you...

The Witness Discount

The Witness Discount

Bitcoin Magazine The Witness Discount The witness discount refers to the reduction in data “weight” given to the witness portion of a Bitcoin transaction — the part that contains the signatures used to prove ownership. Implemented as part of the 2017 segregated...

What are BRC-20 Tokens?

What are BRC-20 Tokens?

Bitcoin Magazine What are BRC-20 Tokens? Introduction BRC-20 tokens are an experimental and inefficient token standard designed for creating fungible tokens on the Bitcoin blockchain. Inspired by Ethereum’s ERC-20 tokens, BRC-20 tokens leverage the Bitcoin Ordinals...

My Top 3 Takeaways From Fidelity And Voltage’s Recent Lightning Report

My Top 3 Takeaways From Fidelity And Voltage’s Recent Lightning Report

Bitcoin Magazine My Top 3 Takeaways From Fidelity And Voltage’s Recent Lightning Report In a report released this Wednesday, Fidelity Digital Assets in collaboration with Lightning payment provider Voltage released a report on the state of the Lightning Network. The...

FPPS Is Not A Free Lunch For Bitcoin Miners

FPPS Is Not A Free Lunch For Bitcoin Miners

Bitcoin mining is a tough business. When one considers deploying economic resources to mine traditional commodities such as gold, copper or oil, prospecting for those resources in the field is always done beforehand, to ensure that any capital invested in a mining...

The Next Decade, Part 4: Actual Predictions

Think back through Bitcoin’s history. I guarantee you a handful of events just popped into your mind first, like landmarks. If you kept thinking your mind probably started filling in from there with those landmark events as anchors. Don’t take these as hard...

I Still Don’t Like Tether (USDT) On Bitcoin And Lightning

I Still Don’t Like Tether (USDT) On Bitcoin And Lightning

Follow Frank on X. The news of USDT (Tether) coming to Bitcoin and Lightning via Taproot Assets has been met with various reactions. Some believe it’s good for Bitcoin (most, actually, based on a small survey I conducted on X; yes, I know the sample size isn’t large...

The Next Decade, Part 3: The Road Blocks(And Roads Around?)

Bitcoin Banks (or Binks). It’s happening. Guaranteed. Done deal. In the bag. It’s just a question of when? Germany cleared banks to custody and handle Bitcoin and Bitcoin accounts for customer starting 2020. Who will be the first? This is one thing that people will...

The Next Decade, Part 2: The Road Ahead

We’re already starting to see the seeds of second layer potential develop from the base layer primitives that have been added or optimized in the first decade. Lightning, while still subject to some pretty big limitations, is really starting to thrive. And that is...

Mastering Bitcoin On-Chain Data

Mastering Bitcoin On-Chain Data

Bitcoin’s price movements dominate headlines, but the real story of BTC lies beneath the surface. Beyond technical analysis and price speculation, on-chain data offers an unparalleled view of supply, demand, and investor behavior in real time. By leveraging these...

The Next Decade, Part 1: The Road Behind

It’s a new year, and with that new year come all the normal social media circle jerking centered around predictions of “what will happen in 2020!” I wanted to extend that out a bit, and look at the next decade. But first, I wanted to spend a minute going over the last...