Depending on your position, Ethereum’s move to proof of stake is either just around the corner, on the distant horizon or less likely than hell freezing over. However, instead of just asking “wen merge?” let’s look at some important information about this industry milestone and break some misconceptions. Whilst hitting…

In my previous piece I broke down how MimbleWimble was expected to work when it came out via the v0.21.2 upgrade to Litecoin: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-mimblewimble-work-litecoin-tara-annison Since then, the upgrade has gone live and there are now (at the time of writing) almost 800 LTC (~$51,000 worth) in the extension blocks and…

Ice phishing is a blockchain based attack which Microsoft raised concerns about earlier this year and involves tricking a user into signing a malicious transaction so that the attacker can gain control over the cryptoassets. On Chain Transactions Many crypto holders will connect their browser based wallet, such as Metamask, to decentralised applications…

If you follow the bitcoin dev mailing list then you won’t have been able to escape the unfolding drama on CTV — a proposed update to add covenants to Bitcoin core. This was a panel I attended at Bitcoin 2022 and included one of the leading developers within the debate…

In my previous piece I explored how bitcoin is moved from the Bitcoin blockchain to Ethereum (and other networks) via a process called ‘wrapping’. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-does-cryptocurrency-move-across-blockchains-part-1-tara-annison In this follow up, we’re going to look at a specific example of centralised wrapping and see how the transactions look on-chain…. Overview Wrapped bitcoin (WBTC)…

Here’s your roundup of the roadmap Ethereum is on if you don’t want to watch all two hours of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1m_PTVxD-s&t=7s. However it’s a great video by the guys at Bankless so well worth a watch! It’s first important to note that Ethereum’s scaling journey began pretty much from the moment…

There’s been an ongoing legal battle between Craig Wright and a number of Bitcoin core devs which has now concluded, so this article gives you a breakdown of what the case was about, what the result was and some interesting bits of information within the judgement The case was played…

Let’s first revisit what “staking” is … You’ve potentially heard of Proof of Work, the consensus model most famously used within the Bitcoin blockchain, and where miners race to solve a cryptographic puzzle in order to add the next block of transactions to the network. They do this in order…

You may have looked at the title of this piece and thought I’d gone slightly crazy, or that I’d decided to do a left field piece about Harry Potter spells. If you thought the later you’re actually a little closer, because this is an upgrade coming to the Litecoin network…