Bitcoin Price Outlook: $84,500 Bounce Meets Range Top
Bitcoin has bounced about 6% off its October low near $79,711, but oil, a 5% Treasury yield and a Dec. 9 hike bet cap the upside.
№ 002MarketsWhere Bitcoin's October Price Could Land
Bitcoin sits near $81,500 with ETF flows negative for October and a Fed meeting Oct. 27-28. Here is the range traders are pricing for month-end.
№ 003BitcoinOP_RETURN: Bitcoin's On-Chain Data Mechanism
OP_RETURN embeds arbitrary data in Bitcoin transactions without touching the UTXO set. The mechanism, relay policy distinctions, and where developers go wrong.
№ 004MiningStratum V2 Noise Protocol: Mining Privacy Explained
Stratum V2 uses the Noise Protocol Framework to encrypt miner-pool traffic, blocking eavesdroppers and share tampering. The mechanism, plainly broken down.
№ 005BitcoinBitcoin RBF Carve-Out and Package Relay Explained
How Bitcoin's RBF carve-out rules and package relay interact during contested Lightning channel closes, and why the distinction matters.
№ 006BitcoinBitcoin Taproot Scriptpath Spending: What the Chain Reveals
Scriptpath spending exposes your Merkle tree depth to every node operator. The mechanics, the fingerprinting risk, and what wallet developers are missing.
№ 007MiningProof-of-Work Block Withholding Attacks Explained
A block withholding attacker drains a mining pool's revenue while submitting clean shares. The mechanics, the math, and why detection takes months.
№ 008MiningBitcoin Nonce Exhaustion and the Extra Nonce Fix
Modern ASICs exhaust Bitcoin's 32-bit nonce in under a millisecond. The coinbase extra nonce keeps the search running, and shapes pool architecture.
№ 009BitcoinBitcoin Anchor Outputs: Fee Bumping Presigned Transactions
Anchor outputs let channel parties bump fees on presigned Bitcoin transactions at broadcast time, the mechanism, the carve-out policy, and its real limits.
№ 010BitcoinBitcoin UTXO Set Growth and the Cost of Pruned Nodes
The UTXO set grows with every block and pruning cannot touch it. A look at the mechanics, the real numbers, and the long-term cost for node operators.
№ 011BitcoinBitcoin Median Time Past: Block Timestamp Manipulation
Median Time Past prevents miners from faking Bitcoin block timestamps. The exact mechanic, its real limits, and what a 15% miner actually controls.
№ 012BitcoinBitcoin Taproot Leaf Version: Future-Proofing Scripts
The leaf version field reserves space for new Bitcoin script rules without a hard fork, the exact mechanism, the constraints, and what it enables.