Research

This case study explores the collaborative efforts to onboard merchants and locals to adopt Bitcoin at the event, streamlining the payment experience resulting in over 8,750 transactions with a volume of 2.029416 BTC valued €115,100, on 60 point-of-sale devices and 18 merchants in just 3 days.

Electric Capital fingerprinted 485 million code commits across 818k open-source bitcoin and 'crypto' repositories to create a 2023 Developer Report.

According to research by Porkopolis Economics, Bitcoin is now 7th largest base money in the world.

Bitcoin Perception report aims to understand how Nayib Bukele's government's Bitcoin adoption since the 2021 Bitcoin Law has been perceived by local media. It analyzes 1440 articles from 5 major local media outlets written by 152 reporters from January 1, 2021, to December 31, 2023.

"Auto-updates would create a single point of failure that could cause a malicious update to quickly spread to a supermajority of nodes on the network. As such, manual action must be taken by node operators to keep their node software up to date."

"Given that none of the available self-custodial wallets are developed by Africans, they are rarely used or tested here. I was here to find out what works and what does not," wrote Anita Posch.

"2024 will be a make-or-break year for many miners. Those who spent 2023 preparing by upgrading their fleets with more efficient hardware, cutting excess costs, and optimizing their operations in every way will be the best prepared to weather the year."

"Five years ago I started running an annual comprehensive comparison of various implementations to see how well they performed full blockchain validation. Now it's time to see what has changed over the past year!"

"This report provides all kinds of interesting data — from LLM development, to training, fine-tuning, and even how Lightning is being leveraged to scale crowdsourcing from a global cohort of contributors — all focusing on the intersection of Bitcoin and AI."

"Our single BTCPay Server instance supports ~200 stores, totalling ~5k invoices to date. It continues scaling efficiently without any issue."

"From Ethiopia, to Kenya, to Nigeria, and beyond, Africa is quietly emerging as a Bitcoin mining hub," writes the Hashrate Index in its latest report.