In this article we will show how to setup your Bitcoin wallet with Electrum. Electrum is a self-custody wallet, which gives you full control over your funds. We will setup a native Segwit and p2sh wallet which is compatible both with native Segwit addresses (start with bech1) and legacy Bitcoin addresses (start with 1). Download […]
In this article we will discuss one common thing which new to Electrum users may face and get very scared. You are being paid, but transaction does not appear in the wallet and Bitcoin balance is not updated. Usually this happens when you accept Bitcoin payments via some automated software to your Electrum wallet. Problem […]
Usually when you send a Bitcoin transaction you trust the fee settings to the wallet you use. One of the strong sides of the Electrum wallet is that you can set the fee of your choice depending on how fast you want the transaction to be confirmed. In this article you will learn how to […]
Previous week shocked the crypto space with two dramatic but history proven to happen events – FTX rug and BlockFi suspending disabling withdrawals. The funny thing is that not so long ago we wrote an article Bitcoin vs Crypto – POS challenge. where we described that so far crypto mostly brought various scams to the […]
In this article we will learn what is Bitcoin transaction ID (or also called hash) and how to find it in your Electrum wallet. What is transaction id Transaction ID or hash is a unique alphanumeric identifier, which is assigned to every Bitcoin transaction and kept in the blockchain. This identifier is publicly available and […]
In 2011 we first started to provide hosting service under different brand name. We did not call it anonymous hosting back then, but rather privacy oriented web hosting. In 2011 Bitcoin had been in existence for 2 years already. It was not widespread, it was not accepted by merchants besides one dark web market place […]
Sometime we can hear that Bitcoin payments are not really anonymous. Ok, let’s try to test this statement and try to find out as much information as possible about some random transaction. One should not take this test very serious because resources and knowledge we have cannot be compared with some intelligence office. The experiment […]
We have been in Bitcoin space for quite some time to notice same things happen all over again. Starting from “Bitcoin is backed by nothing”, “Bitcoin is a pyramid scheme”, “Bitcoin is a bubble” to finally now “Bitcoin damages the environment”. All this is done with one single purpose to deface the Bitcoin and give […]
Internet was invented on January 1st, 1983. The number of websites increased to 130 in 1993. In 2001 only 7% of Internet users had broadband connection, majority of people did not have Internet and there were no online payments at all! 2011 – 555 million websites. 2022 – 2 billion websites, online payments have 45% […]
