Research

In early 2023, Block, Inc. (formerly Square, Inc.) partnered with Wakefield Research for a second global bitcoin survey involving 6,600 people in 15 countries around the world.

This case study provides a detailed systematic approach undertaken to overcome identified challenges, demonstrating the adoption of bitcoin in a real-world setting.

Hashrate Index's Jaran Mellerud produced an analysis of Bitcoin mining industry in Oman - potentially biggest bitcoin mining hub in the Middle East.

"As a solo miner, an average of 266,000 kWh of electricity is required to mine a 1 BTC. This process spans about 7 years, with a monthly electricity consumption of around 143 kWh."

Nucleus is a draft proposal for Lightning multipeer payment channels which provides better capital efficiency (no inbound liquidity is required) and liveness. It also doesn't rely on a penalty mechanism and doesn't require the use of atomic swaps and routed payments for scaling.

"In this piece we evaluate Paul Sztorc’s BIP-300 and BIP-301 Drivechain proposals."

Blockstream shared the first in a series post that covers the foundational concepts of values and types of Simplicity.

"One of our main goals in this paper is to provide a unifying framework in order to better understand the techniques used in various protocols."

Hashrate Index produced a comprehensive report on Bitcoin mining in the United Arab Emirates - one of the fastest-growing bitcoin mining hubs in the Middle East.

130 countries representing a total of 98% of global GDP are exploring CDBCs due to their ability to facilitate tight government surveillance and control over ubiquitous payments.

"As a specification language, Simplicity allows us to make everything explicit, so that we can mathematically model it, prove the essential properties that we need for our applications, and then encapsulate it, confident that we have a rock-solid foundation for the things we believe about our code."

"This study investigates the use of bitcoin by nonviolent resistance campaigns to counter state financial censorship, a topic underrepresented in academic literature."