Most people that have at least some exposure to the crypto ecosystem know that something is happening with Ethereum. That something is called the Merge, and it will fundamentally shift the way this blockchain and network operates. Today, a participant…
Technology Recap: Bitcoin: Several wallet developers including ColdCard and Sparrow Wallet have been in talks with developer Ali Sherief regarding a BIP that encompasses a single message signing algorithm used for P2WPKH and other output types. Core developers have been discussing use cases and…
Technology Recap: Bitcoin: Core Developer Alfred Hodler posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a proposal to BIP-47. BIP-47 allows a user to publish a payment code that anyone can use in combination with their own keys to create an unlimited number of…
Technology Recap: Bitcoin: Lightning Network Daemon, lnd, announces lnd v0.15-beta! This new release includes full support for Taproot (creating addresses, send/receive, PSBT funding and signing), experimental MuSig2 API, BIP-55 support for neutrino and more! The Lightning Development Kit shares the full background of LDK…
Technology Recap: Bitcoin: Rusty Russell proposed a restricted version of an OP_TX opcode that would allow Tapscript to push to the stack selected parts of the transaction executing it. This would allow for CLTV’s (CheckLockTimeVerify) with fewer bytes than a pure transaction…
Cryptocurrency Technology Recap Bitcoin: In the latest Bitcoin build, deployers now have a full example bitcoin.conf shipped with each release! If needed, there is also now a script to generate one yourself. As of block 735000, we are halfway through Bitcoin’s 4th mining…
Cryptocurrency Technology Recap: Bitcoin: Bitcoin Core v23.0 has been released! This release includes wallet updates with Taproot support, descriptor wallets set as default, ability to indefinitely freeze a UTXO, updates to P2P communications and more! C-Lightning has been rebranded to Core Lightning (CLN). Blockstream…
Standoff between Poly Network and Hacker over keys to multisig wallet Aug 18 Update: In an August 17 Medium article, the Poly Network team announced that they had offered the hacker, whom they refer to as “Mr. White Hat,” the…
TL;DR: Iron.Finance depends on arbitrage as their stabilizing mechanism for partially collateralized tokens. In the case of the TITAN token collapse, the time frame between its price feed oracle and the actual real-time prices of the market was too large…
On April 13, 2021, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Working Group released the Crypto-Asset Exchange Security Guidelines—a set of guidelines and best practices for crypto-asset exchange (CaE) security. The set of guidelines were created to help educate users,…