I am not a Bitcoin expert. Like all my articles this is a subjective take and an exercise at thinking through an idea well enough to put it in written form. It is also entirely possible that it is wrong. …

We are in the very early days of Bitcoin adoption and it is not clear at this point what the long term adoption will look like. One aspect of this can be seen in the blockchain services that application developers require to build their applications on. The legacy approach When Craig left Bitcoin…

If you are looking for an article telling you how to write bulletproof blockchain state handling given fork edge conditions, I am not sure this article is it. I am not a Bitcoin expert. …

If you read my last article on the state of hardware wallets on Bitcoin SV you should have an understanding of what hardware wallets are actually usable for on Bitcoin SV (BSV). There were two key take-aways: Hardware wallets are mainly useful for cold storage, and have to be operated…

No hardware wallet manufacturer officially supports Bitcoin SV, but you can use your existing hardware wallets if you choose to work within the limitations. The subject of hardware wallets came up frequently at the 2022 BSV blockchain conference in Dubai, so this article is intended to try and paint the…

I am not a Bitcoin expert. This article is merely a summary of my expectations. An obvious point is why has ElectrumSV not done these things? Part of this is that no other applications would be interoperable unless there were common standards requiring these, and another reason is that there…

Work is progressing moving ElectrumSV from using the existing ElectrumX servers, to using our new reference server. A lot of the functionality in the reference server is complete, but one piece that isn’t is unspent output notifications. There is not a lot of discussion on this topic, so if you…

This is a proposal for how automated payment for API usage of a service could be achieved using payment channels. ElectrumSV wants to do this to compensate people who will run the services our users make use of, but perhaps others might have an interest in also supporting it. Maybe…

The potential future that BSV has ahead of it is way more technologically advanced than anything anyone is doing on it now. And that is in the immediate years ahead of us. It’s the early days. …