Development & Technology

Most folks in the Bitcoin space are all about soft forks or price actions. But honestly, some of the key changes happen quietly, often on policy…

So, here's the deal. I figured out that you can usually create valid signatures with the private key for ecdsa secp256k1. There are libraries out…

I just found out there are six distinct n-values that match various b-values in secp256k1. It's crazy how they repeat as the b-value goes up. But…

Just saw a paper on arxiv called POEM: Proof-of-Entropy-Minima. Seems like it could really change how we measure the heaviest chain tip and tackle…

You probably saw some chatter about Silent Payments floating around the forums. It's basically this thing where you can send someone bitcoin to their…

Core doesn't even seem to care about spam. They’ve done nothing since that spam attack hit five years ago. Rejected those ordinal filters too,…

How do I check if the K value I got is right for an R signature and public key? I'm really struggling with it. Can someone help me out?

Heads up guys! If you're dealing with Python packages for Bitcoin or e-commerce, be cautious! There are two shady packages out there, bitcoinlibdbfix…

Thin clients rely on a server, so they totally depend on network speed. You can plug in SD cards and stuff to boost performance, and yeah, Raspberry…

I just set up my node and saw that outbound connections start at zero and cap at 10. I noticed more peers mean faster sync. So if extra outbound…

There's like 7 to 12 soft fork proposals for Bitcoin right now. You can check them out on the Covenants Support Wiki or covenants.info. Some of them…

Hey folks, First time posting here. I've been looking into SegWit and the whole Ordinals prunability issue. Got a couple questions. So, I heard…

What happens if a transaction tries to spend a UTXO that's already been spent? How do nodes catch that in the mempool and block validation? Is it…

I might be off-topic here, but I didn't know where else to share this. So, here we go.

Hey, is there any push for verifying the Bitcoin core code or other versions like btc knots and bitcoin in Go? Maybe we could use AI models like…

Gotta say, encrypting your wallet is super important. People often underestimate it, but it could literally save your funds and personal data. I have…

So what's the actual max size for OP_RETURN? I know there are debates about it and how you can tweak sizes in bitcoin knots, but if a block has too…

A major solar storm could totally knock out all communications and power! Crazy to think about, right?

Running Ubuntu 22.04 and had Bitcoin Core 23.0. After a while it just stopped working. Found out Snap updated it to 27.0. I tried downgrading to 25.2…

There's a lot of panic going around about BIP110. Some say it could lead to confiscation of coins. Greg Maxwell is one of the main voices spreading…

I was reading this paper on Bitcoin and got confused by the part about orphan blocks. The paper said they just kind of happen along with everything…

So, I picked up a VPS to test Bitcoin Core, and it was the only one with enough disk space. I set the maxmempool and dbcache to the lowest values 5MB…

Been testing PSBT with testnet coins. Created a watch-only wallet and moved some funds. Saw someone say to disable bip32derivs. But honestly, from…

How do I make another testnet blockchain for Bitcoin?

I've been thinking about how to pull off atomic swaps with my WoW items and Bitcoin. I know about HTLC transactions, but I need a way for the…