Aug 12, 2022
In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost go back to basics. They explain one of the most fundamental building blocks in all of Bitcoin: hash functions.
To start the episode off, Aaron and Sjors explain that hash functions are a type of mathematical one-way functions. That means...
Jul 15, 2022
In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss OP_RETURN and what some have called the “OP_RETURN wars”. More specifically, they discuss a blog post by BitMEX research titled: “The OP_Return Wars of 2014 – Dapps Vs Bitcoin Transactions”.
Aaron and Sjors start off...
Jul 1, 2022
In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, hosts
Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss reusing Bitcoin
addresses. More specifically, they explain why reusing Bitcoin
addresses is a bad idea.
Reusing Bitcoin addresses is a bad idea for roughly three reasons.
The first two of these are that it harms privacy and impedes...
Jun 20, 2022
Jun 10, 2022