It’s been a busy old time here at Coinscrum the past quarter. We ran 4 lectures over 8 weeks at UCL. We’ve been recording podcasts, teaching people how to setup Bitcoin Core and Ordinal nodes. Now we’re deep into Q2 2024 and thought it’s time…

Bitcoin Layer 2 refers to a set of technologies that are built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain to improve its scalability, performance, and privacy. Layer 2 solutions do not modify the underlying Bitcoin protocol, but rather they use clever techniques to offload some of…

Blockchain’s Wider Impact Blockchain technology has become synonymous with Bitcoin in recent years, but it actually has far broader applications beyond cryptocurrency. While Bitcoin introduced blockchain as a way to record financial transactions without a central authority, blockchains can be used to track, verify and…

Bitcoin Mining Pros and Cons Simply Outlined Bitcoin mining is the process of verifying and adding bitcoin transactions to the public ledger known as the blockchain. Miners use specialized computers to solve complex math problems and verify transactions. In exchange, they receive bitcoin as a…

Bitcoin has been one of the hottest topics in finance and technology over the past few years. As the first and most well-known cryptocurrency, Bitcoin offers some intriguing advantages but also comes with considerable risks. This article provides a balanced look at the main pros…

How Does Bitcoin Work? Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency that was created in 2009. Unlike traditional currencies like the U.S. dollar that are controlled by central banks, Bitcoin has no central authority and operates on a peer-to-peer network. But how exactly does it work?…