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Written By Amadi Justice Chinonso Timelocks are a feature in Bitcoin that allows transactions to be locked until a specific point in time. This means that the funds associated with a transaction cannot be spent until a certain number of blocks have been mined, or until a specific timestamp has
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Written By Vladimir Fomene I'm taking you on a debugging journey where we will be learning about Bitcoin dust, how it is calculated and its implication for the Lightning network. Before we dive into the meat of the subject, let me set the stage. This week while trying
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Written By Omoniyi Ilesanmi What is Satoshi? Although the price of 1 Bitcoin today makes it appear unsuitable for smaller value payments, “1 Bitcoin” is really an artificial construct created for the convenience of the (early) user. Each “1 Bitcoin” that we think of today is a representation of 100,
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Written By Munirat Olayiwola One of the ways of proving ownership of bitcoin is through a bitcoin address. Similar to having an account number to which cash can be sent, Bitcoin has addresses where the cryptocurrency can be sent. A bitcoin address is not permanent due to privacy, hence diverse
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Written By Tyonum Peter Like any other developer environment, for one to build on Bitcoin Core and Lightning Network, you need to setup their (development) environments. Note: This writeup is based on implementation on macOS. If you need help setting up for another platform, please reach out and I will
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Written By Jennifer Ezeobi I am Jennifer Ezeobi and this book will be a journal of my journey into bitcoin software development facilitated by Qala. I first heard of Bitcoin in 2019, a period when ponzi schemes were at an all time high in Nigeria, so I dismissed it as
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Written By Collin Rukundo Created as a response to the global financial crisis that swept the world in 2008, Bitcoin emerged as a “trustless” monetary system and worthy solution to the erosion of trust in traditional institutions like banks. Trustless does not mean devoid of trust. It simply means that
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Written By Theophilus Isah Bitcoin and lightning are so linked that their essential ideas are nearly identical. Payment receipt procedures are a unique and crucial feature of both technologies. It's the bitcoin address for bitcoin, and the lightning invoice for lightning (BOLT 11 invoice, to be precise). They
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Written By Enigbe Ochekliye A digital signature is a “mathematical scheme for demonstrating the authenticity of a message” (Antonopoulos, 2017). It finds use in bitcoin transactions where it proves that transactions have been created by “known” senders, that “known” senders cannot repudiate broadcast transactions and that the transactions have not
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Written By Rapheal Eyerin Bitcoin, the first successful decentralized digital currency (cryptocurrency) means different things to different people. Many perceive Bitcoin as a way to get rich quick, although some people have made a lot of money from Bitcoin others have also been caught up in the volatility of Bitcoin
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Written By Olutobi Adeyemi The Lightning Network (LN) is a network that operates as a second layer on top of Bitcoin. Here users can make payment to each other without the necessity of publishing a transaction to the Bitcoin blockchain for each payment. Before LN transactions can be made, a
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Written By Vladimir Fomene Note: Following Btrust's aquisition of Qala on Sept 5, 2023, Qala is now known as Btrust Builders. How I got interested in Bitcoin? Introduction Welcome to my medium, I’m Vladimir Fomene, a Bitcoin/Lightning developer in training at Qala Africa (now known as