Bitcoin

Zhang Nangeng, founder and CEO of Canaan, discussed the current status and future of the Bitcoin mining industry in an interview with Bitcoin Magazine. He mentioned that although the Bitcoin mining industry faces challenges after the fourth halving, the advancement of ASIC chips and the application of new process technologies will continue to improve mining efficiency. Zhang Nangeng also highlighted the emerging opportunities in Bitcoin mining in the Middle East, as well as the potential of combining heat energy recovery and AI computing with Bitcoin mining, believing that these factors will promote the sustainable development of the mining industry.

In 2009, Martti Malmi, a student at Helsinki University of Technology, stumbled upon Bitcoin and wrote to Satoshi Nakamoto offering his help, which began their collaboration. The email exchanges reveal how Bitcoin's early operations resembled a startup, discussing product features, client functionalities, and more.

BounceBit is a re-staking project built on the Bitcoin ecosystem. Its goal is to enable BTC to generate organic staking rewards by creating a new ecosystem - BounceBit Chain.

Bitcoin Layer 2 is an important part of the development of modern Web3. If Bitcoin wants to maintain its status as one of the major blockchain networks, it needs a way to process transactions quickly and affordably. This article analyzes the Bitcoin Layer 2 track analysis and early and recent Layer 2 projects to provide readers with information on different projects and better understand the applications and routes of Bitcoin Layer 2.

This article selects three L2 projects with a more Western background—Mezo, BOB (Build on Bitcoin), and Spiderchain (Botanix)—to further explore the pros and cons of layer 2 solutions and their impact on the BTC ecosystem.

This article delves into the prevalence of BRC-20 tokens within the Bitcoin network and their impact, highlighting the emergence of ORC-20 tokens. These tokens operate on the Bitcoin blockchain, offering a range of new features and functionalities, such as addressing double-spending and improving namespace flexibility. Additionally, it introduces the workings and changes brought by the ORC-20 standard, explores its differences from BRC-20, and discusses the potential advantages and risks of ORC-20.

This article provides an in-depth analysis of the Rune asset and its role in the cryptocurrency market. The article not only discusses the technical details of runes, but also involves capital operations, market strategies and investment suggestions. For readers who want to understand the dynamics of the cryptocurrency market and investment trends, this is a rich and insightful article. In addition, the opinions and analysis in the article help readers form their own investment strategies, especially in the current context of rapid development and changes in the cryptocurrency market.

Starting from the approval of Bitcoin and Ethereum spot ETFs in Hong Kong, this article analyzes Hong Kong's cryptocurrency policies, helping investors make more rational judgments.

We focus on Stacks and its imminent Nakamoto hard fork. Then, we compare and contrast a variety of newer projects entering the scene that have been on our radar including RGB++, Merlin, Build on Bitcoin (BOB), BEVM, Bsquared, and Nostr Assets.

Detailed explanation of the investment value and risks of the six major tokens in the Runes ecosystem, suitable for blockchain investors and researchers.

According to data from DefiLlama, the current BTC yield farming market size exceeds US$10 billion. More and more participants are joining the BTC yield farming track. This article will review several well-known BTC staking protocols.

This article discusses the power-law behavior of Bitcoin and its theoretical foundation. Bitcoin is depicted as a city and organism rather than a mere financial asset. The power-law theory is used to explain the geometric intuition of Bitcoin price behavior and establishes a comprehensive theory of Bitcoin behavior that can scientifically explain major on-chain parameters.

Ordinal Inscriptions differ significantly from NFTs. Although they are both tradable digital assets on the blockchain; their minting, storage, and operation underpins the major differences between them. While NFTs are minted and stored outside the Ethereum network, Ordinal Inscriptions are created and stored on the Bitcoin blockchain.

The unspent transaction output (UTXO) model explained here is a method used by the Bitcoin network to manage transactions. In Bitcoin, coins are not stored in a wallet in the conventional sense; instead, they are tracked through transaction records on the blockchain. When a transaction is made, the network searches for appropriate UTXOs to use as inputs, and any remaining bitcoins are potentially returned to the wallet as change.

Bitcoin ETFs are, in fact, not new. They’ve been trading around the world for years.