In this episode of “Bitcoin, Explained,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost go back to Bitcoin basics. They explain one of the most fundamental building blocks in all of Bitcoin: hash functions ...

Bitcoin has been touted as a revolution in the world of money. You may have also heard it described a dozen different ways, sometimes in a good light and other times in less savory terms. It’s easy to ...

The pioneering currency of the digital world, Bitcoin has become more of an investment--a rival to stocks and bonds--as its intrinsic value continues to grow leaps and bounds, reports said. However, ...

If you’ve ever wondered how Bitcoin actually works—beyond the price charts and celebrity tweets—this one's for you. "Bitcoin mining is like a big guessing game on computers," Holmes explained. "People ...

As lawmakers refresh crypto rules and banks test new rails, one old idea is back in focus: people can send digital value to ...

In October 2008, a mysterious whitepaper touting a potentially revolutionary monetary concept made its way to a cryptography mailing list. In a tidy nine pages, Satoshi Nakamoto, a pseudonym for an ...

The surge in cryptocurrency has brought about a parallel increase in Bitcoin mining, a process essential for creating and maintaining Bitcoin. This mining process, once an arms race for computational ...

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost discuss Bitcoin Core 22.0, the latest major release of the Bitcoin Core software client, currently the de facto ...

An event that halves the rate at which new Bitcoins are created. It occurs once every four years. As many know, Bitcoin’s (BTC) supply is finite. Once 21 million coins are generated, the network will ...

More than half of Bitcoin’s global mining network runs on renewable energy — and much of it comes from sources that would otherwise go unused. “More than half of the network is using some type of ...