Investors are keeping their coins still, with the amount of Bitcoin not budging nearing a new all-time high.

High levels of bitcoin dormancy

Lightning network point-of-sale

Where and when will the current Bitcoin market peak?

Comparing the daily mean and median value of on-chain transactions gives an indication of the extent of organic blockchain use. Comparing the mean-median ratio (MMR) across different Bitcoin forks shows that Bitcoin (BTC) is the least influenced by "whales".

Analysis of the mean and median value of transactions on 5 Blockchains

I set up a  node on the Bitcoin Lightning network and sent a payment of &#36;0.005 which confirmed in a few seconds.

Bitcoin Lightning

Sync a Bitcoin node for the first time, quickly, on a spinning disk by moving chainstate to an SSD and symlinking to it.

Sync a BTC node, quickly

This is an unfinished article from 2018. I'm publishing it in 2021 because it has a few ideas I'd like to be able to refer to in future.

The Bitcoin Lightning Network

How to buy Bitcoin

Bitcoin will become a safe haven asset comparable to gold

Bitcoin compared to gold

Current hardware wallets are technically good but are awkward to use. A good solution would solve the following problems:


Hardware Wallets

Quantification of the efficiency of trading ETH/BTC or LTC/BTC using simple moving averages

Trading digital assets

The number of unconfirmed transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain spiked in May 2017. Attempting to identify why led to an analysis of several key performance metrics for the network