Category: Bitcoin & Layer-1s

BITCOIN & LAYER-1S JUN 24

EIP-1559 explained for non-developers — and why the burn matters

EIP-1559 replaced Ethereum's fee auction with a base fee and a burn. Here is the spec in plain English, the numbers since…

By Marcus Okafor·8 min read

BITCOIN & LAYER-1S JUN 24

What is a Layer 2? Optimistic vs zero-knowledge rollups, decoded

L2 TVL crossed $50bn in 2025, and EIP-4844 cut rollup costs by roughly 90% overnight. The optimistic-vs-ZK debate is no longer hypothetical…

By Yuki Tanaka·10 min read

BITCOIN & LAYER-1S JUN 24

The next Bitcoin halving: what the 2028 cut actually means for miners and price

Block 1,050,000 lands around April 2028, cutting the subsidy from 3.125 BTC to 1.5625 BTC. Daily issuance falls to 225 BTC. Here…

By Liam Brennan·9 min read

BITCOIN & LAYER-1S JUN 24

What is Bitcoin? A no-hype explainer for 2026

Bitcoin in 2026 is a $1.3T monetary asset with a fixed 21M cap, 10-minute blocks, and a halving every 210,000 blocks. Here…

By Liam Brennan·9 min read

BITCOIN & LAYER-1S JUN 23

Ethereum’s L1 throughput debate, decided in three diagrams

Three charts settle a debate Ethereum researchers have been having since EIP-1559: gas-per-block, blob inclusion under EIP-4844, and MEV-Boost relay share tell…

By Marcus Okafor·9 min read

BITCOIN & LAYER-1S JUN 23

The next BTC halving is still over a year out. The miner stress test starts now.

312 days to the 5th BTC halving. Subsidy drops 3.125 to 1.5625 BTC at block 1,050,000. CleanSpark, Riot, and Marathon will all…

By Liam Brennan·9 min read

BITCOIN & LAYER-1S JUN 23

Solana’s mainnet upgrade quietly halved confirmation latency

Solana's v1.18.x cluster upgrade and the SIMD-0123 reward changes cut median optimistic confirmation latency from roughly 480 ms to 240 ms. Here…

By Marcus Okafor·8 min read