Ever since Bcash split from Bitcoin in August 2017, the fork craziness took place and there are currently at least 10 Bitcoin shitforks that I know of. Monero suffered the same fate. Monero shitforks, however, are considered an outright attack on its privacy and namely ring signatures (1 out of
With the rise of cryptocurrencies, financial privacy has become a hot topic. Monero is currently the best in the field, thanks to its fairly large anonymity set, mandatory privacy for all transactions, ring signatures, Ring CT, stealth addresses, and the future Kovri anonymization network. Although Monero developers have mitigated most,
Bitcoin supports scripting since the day one which gives it capabilities beyond just spending outputs in a "standard" way. One of such use cases is a multi-signature wallet. It allows to "lock" outputs in a way that can only be spendable if m-of-n signatures are present.
Zap Wallet for Lightning Network is one of the most beautiful software ever written for Bitcoin. The bummer is, it isn't officially available for Bitcoin mainnet yet. Developers are busy fixing bugs and making sure the wallet is stable enough for production. However, that doesn't stop
Lightning Network is a system of smart contracts on top of the Bitcoin's blockchain. It aims to solve scalability, provides instant payments with zero double spend risk and cheap transactions. These properties enable new use cases such as decentralized exchange markets via cross-chain atomic swaps and more. However,