Category Tech

Bitcoin Knots 29.1 Released

If you’re involved with Bitcoin, you’re probably aware of the SPAM War that is underway. Bitcoin Core wants to change the limit on OP_RETURN from 80 bytes to 100,000 bytes in the soon to be released v30, in effect opening…

Possible Nefarious Bitcoin Attack

Bitcoin is defined by users and the node software they run that decides on what transactions get into the next block along with verifying those transactions and deciding if that block is valid and which chain of blocks is valid,…

Monero Security Vulnerabilities

An interesting critique of Monero, and he references which has some ways it has been tracked in prosecutions. Personally I like Monero, and its super easy to run your own node which takes away one of the biggest ways…

How Should We Pick Bitcoin Core Devs?

This is a good presentation, and there is no escaping that something weird is going on with the Bitcoin Core developers. Consequently, since switching to Bitcoin Knots which filters spam transactions from the mempool, my Bitcoin node traffic is down…