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Bitcoin
What is Fractal Bitcoin: scaling the Bitcoin network
Have you ever considered how Bitcoin could scale to support millions of transactions without compromising on its core strengths? Fractal Bitcoin, supported by Unisat , could provide the answer, as the technology presents a fresh take on scaling.
Feb 17, 2025
Intermediate
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Bitcoin
What are UTXOs and how do they affect Bitcoin transactions and fees?
Among crypto's sea of acronyms, UTXO is one of the most significant. A fundamental component in Bitcoin transactions, UTXO — which stands for Unspent Transaction Output — helps to keep things running smoothly on the network. So, if you trade BTC, it's important to understand what UTXO is, how it works, and the benefits UTXO brings. We'll explain all in the following article.
Feb 17, 2025
Beginners
Bitcoin
Protocols
How the Lightning Network could solve Bitcoin's speed and scale conundrums
The emergence of ordinals and BRC-20 tokens sparked a lively debate within the Bitcoin community. On the one hand, enthusiasts celebrated the newfound potential these innovations bring to the Bitcoin blockchain. On the other hand, concerns have been raised about the rise in gas fees, longer transaction times, and the potential occupation of valuable block space by ordinals and BRC-20 tokens.
Feb 12, 2025
Bitcoin
DEX
Wallets
Come behind the scenes with the Wallet team
Onchain Weekly, first edition Welcome to Onchain Weekly. This is a new series, that every week invites you behind-the-scenes with the Wallet team. It's a sneak peek into what we're building, and why we're building it.
Dec 27, 2024
Strategies
Bitcoin
Ethereum
Is the ETH/BTC ratio key to predicting altcoin rallies?
In the volatile world of crypto trading, sentiment tools can often be handy for both short-term and long-term traders who are navigating the uncertainty. While not fool-proof, these tools are often considered influential when making crypto trading decisions. They can offer an immediate sense of how the majority of traders are positioned. One trusted example of such a sentiment tool is the ETH/BTC ratio.
Jan 2, 2025
Beginners
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Bitcoin
What are Runes? A guide to the Bitcoin based fungible token protocol
Have you heard of the Runes Protocol? It's a unique addition to the Bitcoin environment, providing a fresh perspective on fungible tokens compared to protocols like BRC-20 and Taproot Assets. What makes it so different? Unlike other token standards, the UTXO-structured system incorporated into the Bitcoin network has an added focus on user-friendliness.
Dec 30, 2024
Intermediate
Bitcoin
What is OP_CAT? How Bitcoin Improvement Proposals could bring OP_CAT back
The Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP), introduced in 2011, allows the Bitcoin community to suggest, discuss, and implement changes to Bitcoin's protocol. Anyone can start a BIP by drafting a detailed proposal, which the community reviews. If the proposal is considered valuable, it's formally submitted for approval.
Dec 9, 2024
Bitcoin
NFT
5 trusted ordinals wallets to store your digital artifacts
Casey Rodarmor created the ordinals protocol with Bitcoin node operators in mind. While the protocol recommends running a full Bitcoin node to participate, doing so can be expensive, take a lot of storage space, and require technical expertise to maintain.
Dec 9, 2024
NFT
Bitcoin
Ordinals: the new NFTs on the block(chain) - a beginner's guide
Are you tired of boring digital collectibles? If so, now's your chance to add some pizzazz to your collection with BTC digital artifacts. The world of NFTs became much more interesting with the introduction of ordinal theory — a newly emergent protocol that's creating plenty of buzz in 2023. The concept allows each satoshi, the smallest unit of Bitcoin, to be ranked, ordered, inscribed, and individually transferred. But that's not all. Individual satoshis can also be inscribed with unique, immutable data stored entirely on the blockchain.
Dec 9, 2024
Intermediate
Bitcoin
Top 10 projects on the Bitcoin Runes protocol in 2024
Runes is a new development in the Bitcoin ecosystem that emerged in early 2024. The protocol applies Bitcoin's underlying UTXO (Unspent Transaction Output) system to create a fungible token standard. With this, Runes makes creating and managing digital assets on the Bitcoin blockchain easier, and could extend Bitcoin's functionality beyond just buying and selling the token.
Dec 9, 2024
Bitcoin
Protocols
What is SegWit? an introduction to Bitcoin’s clever on-chain scaling approach
A beginner-friendly introduction to Bitcoin’s SegWit, including what SegWit is, why it’s important, and what it achieves When Satoshi Nakamoto designed Bitcoin , he stipulated that the capacity of each block should not exceed one million, and the number of transactions that can be recorded in each one million capacity is extremely limited. In the earliest days, the capacity of each block of one million was enough to cope with the transaction volume of the niche market, but when the number of Bitcoin players surged, it became particularly congested.
Jan 29, 2025
Bitcoin
What is the Bitcoin Taproot upgrade?
The Taproot upgrade marked an interesting chapter in Bitcoin’s history when it launched in November 2021. One upgrade the industry is starting to witness more and more of is the network's smart contract capabilities. Taproot is designed to meet the growing demands of Bitcoin users while staying true to its decentralized roots.
Sep 20, 2024
Beginners
Bitcoin
Top 3 Runes marketplaces in 2024
Are you seeing Runes projects flooding your X timeline? If so, you may be wondering how to buy or trade them. Similar to non-fungible tokens, projects built on the Runes protocol have their own marketplace, too.
Dec 9, 2024
Beginners
Bitcoin
Blockchain
Trading basics
Meet BRC-20 tokens: the new Bitcoin token standard
BRC-20 has taken the Bitcoin community by storm since @Domodata created it on March 8, 2023. But what is the BRC-20 token standard? BRC-20 is a fungible token standard made explicitly for the Bitcoin blockchain.
Nov 13, 2024
Intermediate
1
Bitcoin
Ethereum
Altcoin
About inscriptions and how they're shaping Web3's growth
What are inscriptions? Inscriptions are a powerful new method of storing images, videos, audio, text, and code directly on a blockchain. Similar to NFTs, you can view inscriptions as digital artifacts. For example, if we were to examine ordinals, the metadata is encoded on a satoshi, the smallest unit of . Ordinals are a means of tracking individual satoshis, which you can attach data to the blockchain by inscribing them directly on chain.
Apr 24, 2024
Beginners
Blockchain
Bitcoin
Boosting Bitcoin: the complete guide to the Stacks (STX) ecosystem
Smart contracts on the Bitcoin blockchain have limitations affecting their functionality and usability. One major limitation is the syntax — the rules underpinning the structure of the programming language. design intentionally made it Turing incomplete, which means it lacks logical loops and conditionals, making complex transactions and contracts challenging to implement.
Jan 28, 2025
Intermediate
Bitcoin
A beginner’s guide to Satoshi: The smallest unit of Bitcoin
Bitcoin (BTC) was the first cryptocurrency to ever be created, and is now the largest by market cap. You can find it on almost any digital currency exchange. While Bitcoin was intended to act as a cur
Feb 27, 2025
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