What the Fork?!
Forks are an integral part of the Nakamoto consensus. Satoshi gave us an amazing way to solve the double spending problem and…
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Magazine
BTCTKVR Magazine essays first appeared in print in July 2021. This category republishes those pieces (and related magazine essays) with hyperlinked references so readers can check sources. Expect privacy, forks, scaling debates, and Bitcoin culture, in the same open-source spirit as the print editions.
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Zcash: The Privacy Moon Math Bitcoin Was Afraid to Include
Johns Hopkins researchers built Zerocoin for Bitcoin in 2013. Core said no. It became Zcash in 2016, the privacy upgrade BTC was…
eCash (ECX): Paul Sztorc Forks Bitcoin to Prove a Point
Paul Sztorc's eCash (ECX) hard fork, timed for Bitcoin's 18th birthday on October 31st 2026: what its drivechains do, and why…
Bitcoin BLAKE2b: The Fork That Fired the Miners
Luke Dashjr's BIP-110 soft fork stalled after eight blocks, then returned as a BLAKE2b hard fork whose proof of work was picked…
eCash (XEC): The Fork That Taxed Itself
How Bitcoin ABC lost the BCH ticker over an 8% developer fund, rebranded a million to one, and built the only Bitcoin fork with…
Bitcoin Gold: One GPU, One Vote
Want to learn more about Bitcoin UTXO forks? Read the previous articles on Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV. And if you want…
Bitcoin SV: Big Blocks All the Way
How the big block camp split in two, why the losing side kept building, and what a chain with no limits and…
Bitcoin Cash: The Big Block Breakaway
Bitcoin Cash is the primary consequence of Bitcoin’s 2015-2017 block size war. It produced Bitcoin’s first durable chain split…
Bitcoin: All the Hard Forks and Soft Forks
This article describes every consensus upgrade Bitcoin has ever switched on without splitting its ledger. It is also the opening…
On The Limitations of Bitcoin Privacy
Bitcoin is a permanent open ledger whose privacy features have mostly been defeated by blockchain analysis. Every transaction…
