Research 40% of Bitcoin Open-Source Developers Focused on L2s and Scaling in 2023 - Report Electric Capital fingerprinted 485 million code commits across 818k open-source bitcoin and 'crypto' repositories to create a 2023 Developer Report.
Research 2023 Q4 Year-End Review of Global Base Money According to research by Porkopolis Economics, Bitcoin is now 7th largest base money in the world.
Research Analysis: El Salvador's Decision and the Salvadorian Mainstream Media's Reaction 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.
Research When Do Bitcoin Node Operators Upgrade? "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."
Research Best Lightning Wallet Apps Working with Poor Network Connection As Tested in Zimbabwe 2024 "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.
Research Hashrate Index 2023 Bitcoin Mining Year in Review - Report "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."
Research Bitcoin Miners Earned 23431 BTC via Fees in 2023 "The new demand for block space made 2023 a very lucrative year for miners."
Research 2023 Bitcoin Node Performance Tests "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!"
Research The Nexus of Bitcoin and AI - Report "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."
Research How Bitcoin Jungle Enables 200+ Stores in Costa Rica to Embrace Bitcoin "Our single BTCPay Server instance supports ~200 stores, totalling ~5k invoices to date. It continues scaling efficiently without any issue."
Research Bitcoin Mining Around the World: Africa "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.
Research BBQr: Better Bitcoin QR Coinkite proposed BBQr protocol and is looking for feedback. BBQr encodes larger files into a series of QR codes so they can cross air gaps.