Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin
Van Wirdum SjorsnadoBitcoin Magazine's editor-in-chief Aaron van Wirdum teams up with Bitcoin Core contributor Sjors Provoost to explain Bitcoin one episode at a time.
Episode 98: Return of the OP_RETURN
May 8 • 1h 13m
Episode 97: Bitcoin Core v29
Apr 20 • 47m
Episode 96: Mining Decentralization Update
Feb 5 • 47m
Episode 95: Bitcoin Core v28.0
Oct 7, 2024 • 43m
Episode 94: Silent Payments part 2
Jul 7, 2024 • 1h 0m
Episode 92: Bitcoin Core 27.0
Apr 10, 2024 • 35m
Episode 91: Splicing
Mar 31, 2024 • 42m
Episode 90: Asynchronous Lightning Payments
Feb 23, 2024 • 36m
Episode 89: B-money and RPOW
Jan 22, 2024 • 37m
Episode 88: Hashcash and Bit Gold
Jan 3, 2024 • 45m
Episode 87: The Block 1,983,702 Problem
Dec 21, 2023 • 39m
Episode 86: Ocean Tides
Dec 6, 2023 • 36m
Episode 83: The Milk Sad Vulnerability
Aug 17, 2023 • 46m
Episode 82: Scaling to Billions of Users
Jul 11, 2023 • 30m
Episode 81: Bitcoin Core 25.0
Jun 26, 2023 • 39m
Episode 80: Stratum V2
Jun 13, 2023 • 50m
Episode 79: The Witness Discount
May 23, 2023 • 49m
Episode 77: Peer-to-peer Encryption
Apr 24, 2023 • 36m
Episode 76: Stamps (And the Invalid Block Caused by It)
Apr 15, 2023 • 50m
Episode 75: Multisig (And Musig)
Mar 31, 2023 • 52m
Episode 74: Pay-to-Script-Hash (P2SH)
Mar 17, 2023 • 43m
Episode 73: OP_VAULT
Feb 24, 2023 • 40m
Episode 72: Inscriptions
Feb 9, 2023 • 40m
Episode 71: Timelocks
Jan 20, 2023 • 32m
Episode 69: The Tornado Cash Trial
Dec 2, 2022 • 39m
Episode 68: Full Replace-By-Fee (RBF) in Bitcoin Core 24.0
Nov 18, 2022 • 42m
Episode 67: Insights From the Fourth Largest Lightning Network Node
Nov 7, 2022 • 50m
Episode 66: The BTCD Bug That Brought Down LND Nodes
Oct 21, 2022 • 33m
Episode 65: Bitcoin Core 24.0
Oct 7, 2022 • 41m
Episode 64: HD Wallets, Mnemonic Codes and SeedQR
Sep 19, 2022 • 29m
Episode 63: The Bitcoin Core Development Process
Sep 2, 2022 • 39m
Episode 62: Hash Functions
Aug 12, 2022 • 35m
Episode 61: OP_RETURN (And the ‘OP_RETURN Wars’)
Jul 15, 2022 • 26m
Episode 60: Reusing Addresses (and the Hertzbleed Attack)
Jul 1, 2022 • 33m
Episode 59: Hard Forks (And Whether Bitcoin Has Ever Hard Forked)
Jun 20, 2022 • 40m
Episode 58: Silent Payments
Jun 10, 2022 • 46m
Episode 57: User Rejected Soft Forks (URSFs)
May 6, 2022 • 43m
Episode 56: Bitcoin Core 23.0
Apr 25, 2022 • 34m
Episode 55: Syncing Old Nodes
Mar 25, 2022 • 37m
Episode 54: Burying Soft Forks
Feb 25, 2022 • 37m
Episode 53: Discreet Log Contracts (DLCs)
Feb 11, 2022 • 52m
Episode 52: Federated eCash
Jan 14, 2022 • 44m
Episode 51: Compact Blocks
Dec 31, 2021 • 18m
Episode 50: The Mempool (And Why We Need It)
Nov 27, 2021 • 39m
Episode 49: The Attack of the Fake Peers!
Nov 12, 2021 • 20m
Episode 48: SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT and Eltoo part 2
Oct 29, 2021 • 32m
Episode 47: Lightning Network Payment Flows
Oct 15, 2021 • 27m
Episode 46: The Chivo App (First Look)
Oct 11, 2021 • 53m
Episode 45: Bitcoin Core 22.0
Sep 13, 2021 • 32m
Episode 44: BOLT 12
Aug 13, 2021 • 30m
Episode 43: Hardware Wallets and Blockstream’s Jade Wallet
Jul 30, 2021 • 52m
Episode 42: The Bitcoin Beach Wallet (Bitcoin Beach Special)
Jul 16, 2021 • 58m
Episode 41: Lightning Network Routing
Jul 2, 2021 • 40m
Episode 40: Taproot Activation part 5: Lock-in
Jun 18, 2021 • 30m
Episode 39: The Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) Process
Jun 11, 2021 • 20m
Episode 37: MaraPool and Mining Censorship
May 7, 2021 • 31m
Episode 35: SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT and Eltoo
Apr 16, 2021 • 34m
Episode 34: Erlay
Apr 9, 2021 • 24m
Episode 33: RGB
Mar 26, 2021 • 45m
Episode 32: Segregated Witness (SegWit)
Mar 19, 2021 • 28m
Episode 31: Taproot Activation part 3: Speedy Trial
Mar 12, 2021 • 35m
Episode 29: Taproot Activation part 2: LOT=true Versus LOT=false
Feb 26, 2021 • 40m
Episode 28: Bitcoin Addresses
Feb 19, 2021 • 32m
Episode 27: Softchains
Feb 12, 2021 • 50m
Episode 26: Replace-By-Fee (RBF)
Feb 5, 2021 • 32m
Episode 25: Compact Client-Side Block Filters (Neutrino)
Jan 29, 2021 • 26m
Episode 24: Bitcoin Core 0.21.0
Jan 22, 2021 • 32m
Episode 23: Drivechain
Jan 15, 2021 • 45m
Episode 22: The Lightning Network
Jan 8, 2021 • 24m
Episode 20: RSK, Federated Sidechains and Powpeg
Dec 11, 2020 • 23m
Episode 19: Child Pays for Parent (CPFP) and Package Relay
Dec 4, 2020 • 20m
Episode 18: Erebus Attacks
Nov 20, 2020 • 16m
Episode 17: Eclipse Attacks
Nov 13, 2020 • 20m
Episode 16: Open Timestamps
Nov 6, 2020 • 31m
Episode 15: Utreexo
Oct 30, 2020 • 31m
Episode 14: Headers First, Assume Valid and Assume UTXO
Oct 23, 2020 • 23m
Episode 13: Tor v3 Support in Bitcoin Core 0.21
Oct 16, 2020 • 18m
Episode 12: Blind Merged Mining and the Perpetual One-Way Peg
Oct 9, 2020 • 40m
Episode 11: Easypaysy
Oct 2, 2020 • 32m
Episode 10: Signet
Sep 25, 2020 • 15m
Episode 9: The Libsecp256k1 Library
Sep 25, 2020 • 25m
Episode 8: Statechains
Sep 25, 2020 • 40m
Episode 7: XPubs
Sep 25, 2020 • 24m
Episode 6: Payment Pools
Sep 25, 2020 • 35m
Episode 4: Miniscript
Sep 25, 2020 • 29m
Episode 3: Taproot Activation
Sep 25, 2020 • 44m
Episode 2: Taproot
Sep 25, 2020 • 31m
Episode 1: The Fee Burning Bug and Replace-By-Fee (RBF) Wallet Issues
Sep 22, 2020 • 35m
Latest activity