Slow Block Validation Attacks
Calculating the potential attack effectiveness of an adversarial miner publishing bitcoin blocks that are difficult to validate.
Problems with Coinbase Withdrawal Fees
An analysis of odd transaction fee issues when withdrawing bitcoin from Coinbase.
How Many Bitcoin Seed Phrases Are Only One Repeated Word?
An exploration into the combinatoric math behind seed phrase mnemonics and their checksums.
Effects of DBcache Size on Bitcoin Node Sync Speed
An investigation into tradeoffs between different dbcache sizes when performing a full bitcoin node sync.
Griefing Bitcoin's Testnet
A deep dive into manipulation of block generation on testnet and a call to reset the network to fix several issues.
Economically Unspendable Bitcoin UTXOs
UTXO management guidance for avoiding footguns that can cause problems during times of high transaction fees.
An Introduction to Spiderchain
A review of the latest layer 2 protocol proposed for pegging bitcoin to a sidechain.
Revisiting Bitcoin Network Bandwidth Issues
A deep dive into bandwidth bottlenecks and potential solutions for improving node syncing performance.
What is the Bitcoin Network's Real Hashrate?
Bitcoin mining exhibits a lot of randomness, which makes it hard to measure an accurate hashrate. What can we do to improve our estimates?
How to Protect Your Home Network with a Gigabit VPN
A guide for protecting all devices on your home network with a fast self hosted VPN.
