secp256k1lab hopes to streamline the development process of cryptographic protocols for BIP proposals with a standard library for secp256k1. Until now, every Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) that ...

A website claiming to be taking advantage of an unexplained “exploit” in Bitcoin to “generate” coins on behalf of its users has scammed more than .8 BTC to date. We tested the “service” in order to be ...

BitGo engineer Jameson Lopp has released a bespoke tool designed to make running a full Bitcoin node more efficient. The Bitcoin Core Config Generator aims to allow users to configure nodes quickly ...

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Until now, every Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) that needed cryptographic primitives had to reinvent the wheel. Each one came bundled with its own custom Python implementation of the secp256k1 ...