Sep 19, 2022
In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss Hierarchical Deterministic (HD) Wallets, mnemonic codes, and — especially — the new SeedQR format which allows users to store their mnemonic codes as QR codes.
Aaron and Sjors start the episode by recapping what HD Wallets (also...
Sep 2, 2022
In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss the Bitcoin Core development process, and more specifically, the different roles that are involved in this process.
At the start of the episode, Aaron and Sjors explain what Bitcoin Core is, both in a practical sense as well as in a...
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...