Reticle signatures weigh between 1,600 and 4,000 bytes, compared to 70/72 bytes for ECDSA. Blockstream relegated signatures based on hash functions because they would be incompatible with multisignatures. Blockstream, the company co-founded by Adam Back, published this May 18 a comparative analysis of the four post-quantum signature paradigms applicable to Bitcoin and concluded that lattice-based … Read more
These are open source wallets, which allows the community to contribute to their development. Jade Plus is 66% larger in size compared to its previous version. The Blockstream company, founded in 2014 and focused on developing infrastructure and technologies linked to Bitcoin (BTC), presented Jade Plus, its new hardware wallet exclusive to store holdings of … Read more
In 2018, Blockstream made it free to use satellite-based Bitcoin nodes. In 2023, a user created a Bitcoin Core bridge with Meshtastic, a long-term spoke project. The technologies that allow transactions with bitcoin outside the internet are not yet fully widespread, but they already exist and have demonstrated their real viability. Especially radio communication, which … Read more