Bitcoin Articles

BIP 375 guide to Draft Silent Payment PSBTv2 fields, input finality, ECDH shares, DLEQ proofs, role responsibilities, change detection and validation.

BIP 374 guide to Draft 64-byte discrete-log equality proofs, generation, verification, auxiliary randomness, message binding, Silent Payments and testing.

BIP 360 P2MR guide covering Draft soft-fork status, script-tree commitments, no key path, long-exposure quantum scope, witnesses, fees and activation.

Empty Bitcoin blocks made simple. See how the network works, which hardware matters and what to check before using electricity.

BIP 321 guide to modern bitcoin URIs, address and query parsing, required parameters, payment methods, decimal amounts, proof of payment and user approval.

Bitcoin majority attack economics: Define the exact objective and duration before estimating resources because censorship, a short reorganisation.

Bitcoin Core 27.2 guide covering P2P self-connect detection, shutdown order, PSBT completeness, non-witness UTXO validation and safe rollout.

Use this NerdQaxe buying guide to compare exact boards, assembly, power, cooling, firmware, pool support, seller terms and realistic learning value.

Bitcoin Core AssumeUTXO guide covering height 840000 mainnet snapshots, authenticated loading, dual chainstates, background validation, storage and rollback.

Bitcoin Core 28 gethdkeys guide covering active filtering, xpubs, optional xprvs, descriptor mapping, RPC permissions, privacy and safe wallet audits.

Bitcoin Core 28 createwalletdescriptor guide covering address types, internal and external descriptors, HD-key selection, encryption, backups and verification.

Bitcoin Core 28.0 guide covering Testnet 4, JSON-RPC 2.0, P2P binds, package relay, TRUC, wallet RPCs, AssumeUTXO and storage compatibility.