What is an economic node? To understand that, you need to first conceptually understand how a user interacts with the Bitcoin network in the first place. Bitcoin is a database, and a network to ...

The Raspberry Pi—a credit card-sized, single-board PC renowned for its affordability and flexibility—offers a super platform for hosting a Bitcoin node. With its low strength consumption, silent ...

From Safebox self-custody to BTC vaults and beyond, Goat Network set out a clear case for why Bitcoin needs Bitcoin L2s to ...

The co-founder and CEO of Blockstream has issued a stern warning to critics of Bitcoin’s BTC $111 313 24h volatility: 2.1% ...

The debate of 2024 has been about scaling bitcoin self-custody versus ossification, with the presupposition that an ossified bitcoin protocol as it is today is imperfect – but its sound monetary ...

Bitcoin price breaks new all-time highs above $125,500, as persistent institutional demand and record BTC ETF inflows fuel bullish sentiment for the week ahead.

The hardware, electricity and internet costs of running a Bitcoin node in Nigeria and ideas for mitigating these costs. In this article, I enumerate the costs of setting up and running a node in ...

Longtime Bitcoin developer and sound money advocate Jimmy Song voiced criticism against Bitcoin Core developers regarding non ...

Bitcoin Knots maintainer Luke Dashjr proposes a Bitcoin hard fork to resolve the issue of illicit data, a proposal that has ...

The Lightning Network enables fast, low-cost Bitcoin payments using a secure layer-2 protocol. Payment channels allow instant, off-chain transactions, settling on-chain only when channels close.

The 2021 adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender remains a debated policy, with mixed uptake by citizens. El Salvador's experiment with Bitcoin faces questions of financial stability, testing the ...

Bitcoin nodes are what makes up the Bitcoin network, but without using them to verify your economic activity, they don't impact consensus. What is an economic node? To understand that, you need to ...