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Bitcoin Energy
Thermodynamic dashboard analyzing blocks as energy-to-information transformations.
The 0.75 MB Gap
The missing space between L0's 1MB limit and L1's 4MB envelope.
The Two Layers of Bitcoin
L0 is Bitcoin. L1 is SegWit. What each layer means for nodes and consensus.
Bitcoin Lean Policy
Design document for Lean Blocks and Lean Data. Relay-layer block size enforcement.
Articles
Protocol
Bitcoin Lean Policy
Design document for Lean Blocks and Lean Data. Relay-layer block size enforcement.
Running Bitcoin Lean
How to build and run Bitcoin Core with the lean policy.
The Two Layers of Bitcoin
L0 is Bitcoin. L1 is SegWit. What each layer means for nodes and consensus.
The 0.75 MB Gap
The missing space between L0's 1MB limit and L1's 4MB envelope.
BIP-XXXX: Removal of Witness Discount
A proposal to remove the SegWit weight discount and restore 1MB block space.
The Block Layout, Before and After
Annotated comparison of block serialization across four eras.
Monetary Theory
The Settlement Debasement
How witness data debases the settlement layer without breaking consensus.
The Fee Market That Doesn't Price Finality
Bitcoin's fee market prices blockspace, not settlement. What it should price instead.
The Ledger With a Shadow
Witness data as a shadow ledger — present in storage, invisible to consensus.
Observability
The Identity Violation
How Taproot breaks the link between block weight and information content.
Blind Fork
When consensus diverges from observation. A fork you can't see.
The Identity Manifold After Taproot
Post-Taproot block structure as a topological manifold.
Fiat Thinking in Bitcoin
When Bitcoiners reason like central bankers. A field guide.
Thermodynamics
Apps
Bitcoin Time
Concentric ring clock showing halving epochs and difficulty adjustments in real time.
Bitcoin Energy
Thermodynamic dashboard analyzing blocks as energy-to-information transformations.
Bitcoin Economics
Embodied energy economics — joules per BTC, cumulative cost, and the physical price of money.
The Thermodynamic Tori
3D torus visualization of chain thermodynamics.
Bitcoin Memory
UTXO set visualization and aging analysis.
Block Identity Study
Mempool-style 2D block visualization. Transactions as rectangles sized by bytes.
1 sats per bit
Base-28 currency converter.
Seed Generation