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. …

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. …

As part of ElectrumSV’s work on preparing for when the ElectrumX indexers die, I’ve been looking at what we need to do, and in the longer term how we combine the SPV-oriented LiteClient model introduced by Steve Shadders at CoinGeek NY 2021 with the blockchain monitoring we need to do…

16th October 2021 Introduction We are seeing increasingly larger blocks on Bitcoin SV. Users still need to use the legacy technologies we inherited from Bitcoin Core, and without them they will be unable to restore their funds or hear about incoming transactions. The current way this works is by the kindness…

This article considers some additions to the ElectrumSV SDK, including an SPV channel server, a blockchain scanner and also frozen blockchains. These changes are necessary for ElectrumSV, but they also round out the functionality available in the SDK for any developers who use it. They are not the only changes…