In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, hosts
Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss URSFs, which stands for
either User Rejected Soft Forks or User Resisted Soft Forks,
depending on who you ask. URSFs are a recently introduced tool in
Bitcoin’s upgrade mechanism toolkit.
In this episode of Bitcoin,
Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss
Bitcoin Core 23.0, the upcoming major release of Bitcoin's de facto
reference implementation. The duo highlights some of the most
notable changes in this new software client, and they offer a bit
of extra context about the release...
In this episode of Bitcoin,
Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss
research done by CasaHODL co-founder and CTO Jameson Lopp as well
as Sjors himself on syncing old Bitcoin nodes.
Whenever a new Bitcoin node comes online, it must
first sync with the rest of the Bitcoin network: it needs...
In this episode of Bitcoin,
Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost revisit
the Taproot activation saga, this time to discuss burying of soft
forks.
Taproot, the last soft fork to have been deployed on
the Bitcoin network, activated in late 2021. Now, Bitcoin Core
developers are considering to “bury”...
In this episode of Bitcoin,
Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost are
joined by resident sidechain and Layer Two expert Ruben Somsen
again, this time to discuss Discreet Log Contracts
(DLCs).
Discreet Log Contracts are a type of smart contracts for Bitcoin,
first proposed by Lightning Network white paper...