Fountain App
Podcasters
Artists
Resources
Home
Feed
Charts
Wallet
Profile
Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin • Listen on Fountain
Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin
Van Wirdum Sjorsnado
Show • 98 episodes
Boost
Bitcoin Magazine's editor-in-chief Aaron van Wirdum teams up with Bitcoin Core contributor Sjors Provoost to explain Bitcoin one episode at a time.
Episodes
Activity
Episode 98: Return of the OP_RETURN
Episode • May 8
Episode 97: Bitcoin Core v29
Episode • Apr 20
Episode 96: Mining Decentralization Update
Episode • Feb 5
Episode 95: Bitcoin Core v28.0
Episode • Oct 7, 2024
Episode 94: Silent Payments part 2
Episode • Jul 7, 2024
Episode 93: The Great Consensus Cleanup Revival (And an Update on the Tornado Cash and Samourai Wallet Arrests)
Episode • May 29, 2024
Episode 92: Bitcoin Core 27.0
Episode • Apr 10, 2024
Episode 91: Splicing
Episode • Mar 31, 2024
Episode 90: Asynchronous Lightning Payments
Episode • Feb 23, 2024
Episode 89: B-money and RPOW
Episode • Jan 22, 2024
Episode 88: Hashcash and Bit Gold
Episode • Jan 3, 2024
Episode 87: The Block 1,983,702 Problem
Episode • Dec 21, 2023
Episode 86: Ocean Tides
Episode • Dec 6, 2023
Episode 85: Bitcoin Core 26.0 (And F2Pool’s OFAC Compliant Mining Policy)
Episode • Nov 23, 2023
Episode 84: Marathon Pool’s Invalid Block (And Some Updates About the Show)
Episode • Oct 5, 2023
Episode 83: The Milk Sad Vulnerability
Episode • Aug 17, 2023
Episode 82: Scaling to Billions of Users
Episode • Jul 11, 2023
Episode 81: Bitcoin Core 25.0
Episode • Jun 26, 2023
Episode 80: Stratum V2
Episode • Jun 13, 2023
Episode 79: The Witness Discount
Episode • May 23, 2023
Episode 78: Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBTs) (And Dutch Auctions)
Episode • May 8, 2023
Episode 77: Peer-to-peer Encryption
Episode • Apr 24, 2023
Episode 76: Stamps (And the Invalid Block Caused by It)
Episode • Apr 15, 2023
Episode 75: Multisig (And Musig)
Episode • Mar 31, 2023
Episode 74: Pay-to-Script-Hash (P2SH)
Episode • Mar 17, 2023
Episode 73: OP_VAULT
Episode • Feb 24, 2023
Episode 72: Inscriptions
Episode • Feb 9, 2023
Episode 71: Timelocks
Episode • Jan 20, 2023
Episode 70: The Bitcoin Core 24.0 Bug (Or Why There Is a Bitcoin Core 24.0.1 Release)
Episode • Dec 30, 2022
Episode 69: The Tornado Cash Trial
Episode • Dec 2, 2022
Episode 68: Full Replace-By-Fee (RBF) in Bitcoin Core 24.0
Episode • Nov 18, 2022
Episode 67: Insights From the Fourth Largest Lightning Network Node
Episode • Nov 7, 2022
Episode 66: The BTCD Bug That Brought Down LND Nodes
Episode • Oct 21, 2022
Episode 65: Bitcoin Core 24.0
Episode • Oct 7, 2022
Episode 64: HD Wallets, Mnemonic Codes and SeedQR
Episode • Sep 19, 2022
Episode 63: The Bitcoin Core Development Process
Episode • Sep 2, 2022
Episode 62: Hash Functions
Episode • Aug 12, 2022
Episode 61: OP_RETURN (And the ‘OP_RETURN Wars’)
Episode • Jul 15, 2022
Episode 60: Reusing Addresses (and the Hertzbleed Attack)
Episode • Jul 1, 2022
Episode 59: Hard Forks (And Whether Bitcoin Has Ever Hard Forked)
Episode • Jun 20, 2022
Episode 58: Silent Payments
Episode • Jun 10, 2022
Episode 57: User Rejected Soft Forks (URSFs)
Episode • May 6, 2022
Episode 56: Bitcoin Core 23.0
Episode • Apr 25, 2022
Episode 55: Syncing Old Nodes
Episode • Mar 25, 2022
Episode 54: Burying Soft Forks
Episode • Feb 25, 2022
Episode 53: Discreet Log Contracts (DLCs)
Episode • Feb 11, 2022
Episode 52: Federated eCash
Episode • Jan 14, 2022
Episode 51: Compact Blocks
Episode • Dec 31, 2021
Episode 50: The Mempool (And Why We Need It)
Episode • Nov 27, 2021
Episode 49: The Attack of the Fake Peers!
Episode • Nov 12, 2021
Episode 48: SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT and Eltoo part 2
Episode • Oct 29, 2021
Episode 47: Lightning Network Payment Flows
Episode • Oct 15, 2021
Episode 46: The Chivo App (First Look)
Episode • Oct 11, 2021
Episode 45: Bitcoin Core 22.0
Episode • Sep 13, 2021
Episode 44: BOLT 12
Episode • Aug 13, 2021
Episode 43: Hardware Wallets and Blockstream’s Jade Wallet
Episode • Jul 30, 2021
Episode 42: The Bitcoin Beach Wallet (Bitcoin Beach Special)
Episode • Jul 16, 2021
Episode 41: Lightning Network Routing
Episode • Jul 2, 2021
Episode 40: Taproot Activation part 5: Lock-in
Episode • Jun 18, 2021
Episode 39: The Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) Process
Episode • Jun 11, 2021
Episode 38: The Replace-By-Fee Bug Affecting Child Transactions In Bitcoin Core
Episode • May 21, 2021
Episode 37: MaraPool and Mining Censorship
Episode • May 7, 2021
Episode 36: Taproot Activation part 4: Speedy Trial and the LOT=true Client
Episode • Apr 23, 2021
Episode 35: SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT and Eltoo
Episode • Apr 16, 2021
Episode 34: Erlay
Episode • Apr 9, 2021
Episode 33: RGB
Episode • Mar 26, 2021
Episode 32: Segregated Witness (SegWit)
Episode • Mar 19, 2021
Episode 31: Taproot Activation part 3: Speedy Trial
Episode • Mar 12, 2021
Episode 30: Hardware Wallet Integration in Bitcoin Core and the Hardware Wallet Interface (HWI)
Episode • Mar 5, 2021
Episode 29: Taproot Activation part 2: LOT=true Versus LOT=false
Episode • Feb 26, 2021
Episode 28: Bitcoin Addresses
Episode • Feb 19, 2021
Episode 27: Softchains
Episode • Feb 12, 2021
Episode 26: Replace-By-Fee (RBF)
Episode • Feb 5, 2021
Episode 25: Compact Client-Side Block Filters (Neutrino)
Episode • Jan 29, 2021
Episode 24: Bitcoin Core 0.21.0
Episode • Jan 22, 2021
Episode 23: Drivechain
Episode • Jan 15, 2021
Episode 22: The Lightning Network
Episode • Jan 8, 2021
Episode 21: Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) In Bitcoin (And Why It Matters)
Episode • Dec 18, 2020
Episode 20: RSK, Federated Sidechains and Powpeg
Episode • Dec 11, 2020
Episode 19: Child Pays for Parent (CPFP) and Package Relay
Episode • Dec 4, 2020
Episode 18: Erebus Attacks
Episode • Nov 20, 2020
Episode 17: Eclipse Attacks
Episode • Nov 13, 2020
Episode 16: Open Timestamps
Episode • Nov 6, 2020
Episode 15: Utreexo
Episode • Oct 30, 2020
Episode 14: Headers First, Assume Valid and Assume UTXO
Episode • Oct 23, 2020
Episode 13: Tor v3 Support in Bitcoin Core 0.21
Episode • Oct 16, 2020
Episode 12: Blind Merged Mining and the Perpetual One-Way Peg
Episode • Oct 9, 2020
Episode 11: Easypaysy
Episode • Oct 2, 2020
Episode 10: Signet
Episode • Sep 25, 2020
Episode 9: The Libsecp256k1 Library
Episode • Sep 25, 2020
Episode 8: Statechains
Episode • Sep 25, 2020
Episode 7: XPubs
Episode • Sep 25, 2020
Episode 6: Payment Pools
Episode • Sep 25, 2020
Episode 5: Time-Warp Attacks (And Bitcoin Cash’s Difficulty Adjustment Drama)
Episode • Sep 25, 2020
Episode 4: Miniscript
Episode • Sep 25, 2020
Episode 3: Taproot Activation
Episode • Sep 25, 2020
Episode 2: Taproot
Episode • Sep 25, 2020
Episode 1: The Fee Burning Bug and Replace-By-Fee (RBF) Wallet Issues
Episode • Sep 22, 2020
Latest activity
Switch to the Fountain App
Not now
Open in Fountain
