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News

Summer of Bitcoin 2022 results announced!

83 students from 15 countries will contribute to 29 open-source bitcoin projects.

Tutorials

Miniscript Policy & Descriptors - Hidden Powers of Bitcoin

A beginner's guide.

Tutorials

Setting up and interacting with Lightning Network Daemon (LND)⚡️- Part 2

Buying your first coffee on Lightning Network! ♨️

Tutorials

Digging into IsStandard in Bitcoin Core

In this post, we will focus on the Bitcoin Core implementation of the different types of scripts / transactions methods.

Tutorials

Introduction to Bitcoin Script

Bitcoin Script is a simple, stack-based programming language that enables the processing of transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain. To understand more about Bitcoin Script, dive in.

Tutorials

Running Bitcoin Core, Signet and playing with test bitcoins using Bitcoin-CLI 🌠

A beginner's guide.

Tutorials

Setting up and interacting with Lightning Network Daemon (LND)⚡️- Part 1

Lightning Network is a second layer solution that helps to scale bitcoin transactions and get them settled at a lightning speed.

Tutorials

Big Integer Arithmetic in C - Part 1

Let's learn how to add large numbers that cannot be stored in a standard integer type provided by the C language.

Cryptography

Merkle Trees and its role in the decentralized web

Merkle trees are named after Ralph Merkle, who proposed them in a 1987 paper titled "A Digital Signature Based on a Conventional Encryption Function." Merkle also invented cryptographic hashing.

Stories

My experience of Summer Of Bitcoin '21

In this post, I will cover the selection process, my experience at Summer of Bitcoin and share some tips for those who are interested in this program.

Tutorials

mempool.space 🚀

Making smart decisions through mempool visualizer!

Tutorials

Playing with Bitcoin CLI and Running a Full Node on MacOS

A beginner's guide.

Cryptography

Breaking Bitcoin: Can we derive the private key?

Let's try to derive the private key from a given public key!

News

Summer of Bitcoin - Liftoff!

Summer of Bitcoin is a global, online summer internship program focused on introducing university students to bitcoin open-source development and design.