$ grep -l "#bitcoin" ./articles
// 14 entries · sorted by date
Tagged #bitcoin
Every article tagged bitcoin — across categories. Tags are transversal slices: an article can carry several.
14
articles
since 2026-05-17
~127 min of reading
since 2026-05-17
~127 min of reading
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// may 2026
22.05.26
crypto
Bitcoin Pizza Day: 16 years later, what the transaction teaches usOn May 22, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz traded 10,000 BTC for two pizzas. The story, today's value, and the real lesson — which isn't the one you hear everywhere.
8 min
21.05.26
crypto
The cryptography of BitcoinSHA-256, secp256k1, ECDSA, Schnorr, address derivation: the cryptographic block that holds Bitcoin together, explained at a useful level without drowning in formulas.
12 min
17.05.26
crypto
Origins: what problem does Bitcoin solve?To understand Bitcoin, you first need to understand what we did before it — and why, in 2008, someone decided that wasn't enough anymore.
4 min
// august 2026
23.08.26
crypto
The anatomy of a Bitcoin transactionUTXOs, binary structure, the Script language, output families, witness and malleability: we take apart a real 222-byte Bitcoin transaction, field by field, until you can read it with the naked eye.
19 min
// may 2026
17.05.26
crypto
Under the hood: how does Bitcoin actually work?Blockchain, blocks, mining, proof of work, public and private keys — the essentials, with no jargon.
5 min
// october 2026
31.10.26
crypto
Bitcoin mining, in detail80-byte header, nonce and extraNonce, difficulty, from CPU to ASIC, mining economics and pools: we take apart a real block mined on 31 October 2026 to understand what a miner literally does — and who decides what goes into blocks.
21 min
// may 2026
17.05.26
crypto
Why does Bitcoin have value?Programmed scarcity, halving, network effect: why an asset with no industrial use and no state behind it trades at tens of thousands of dollars.
4 min
// november 2026
14.11.26
crypto
Merkle trees and light clientsHow 32 bytes summarise 6,000 transactions, how 416 bytes prove a transaction is in a block, and how your mobile wallet tracks your balance without downloading the blockchain: Merkle trees, inclusion proofs, Bloom filters and block filters, recomputed on real blocks.
16 min
// may 2026
17.05.26
crypto
How to buy Bitcoin — and more importantly, how to secure itPlatforms, wallets, seed phrase: the practical guide to buying Bitcoin without getting scammed and keeping it safe.
5 min
17.05.26
crypto
Bitcoin: risks, myths and possible futuresVolatility, energy, crime, regulation: an overview of common objections and real uncertainties around Bitcoin.
5 min
// july 2026
15.07.26
crypto
BIP-110: Should Bitcoin Filter Data? Anatomy of a Consensus BattleIn 2025, Bitcoin Core lifted OP_RETURN's data limit. BIP-110 was the pushback: a temporary soft-fork to re-cap arbitrary data. What it changed, how it was meant to activate — and how, on 8 August 2026, it ended in a chain split, then in a hard fork by the Knots camp.
16 min
// may 2026
21.05.26
crypto
Inside the gears of BitcoinA technical series to understand how Bitcoin works at the bit level: cryptography, binary transactions, mining, consensus, P2P, privacy, Taproot, and what comes next.
1 min
21.05.26
crypto
Math prerequisites for Bitcoin (side-quest)Modular arithmetic, hash functions, elliptic curves, the law of large numbers — the 4 mathematical building blocks needed to follow the Inside the gears of Bitcoin series, explained as intuition, without heavy formulas.
10 min
17.05.26
crypto
Understanding Bitcoin in 5 articlesA series to grasp what Bitcoin is, how it works, why it has value, how to buy and store it safely, and what to know about its risks.
1 min