Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin

Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin

Bitcoin Magazine's editor-in-chief Aaron van Wirdum teams up with Bitcoin Core contributor Sjors Provoost to explain Bitcoin one episode at a time.

99 episodes Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin Updated 2026-05-21
99 episodes in Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin
2025-11-06

Episode 99: Bitcoin Core v30

Aaron and Sjors discuss what's new in Bitcoin Core v30
2025-05-08

Episode 98: Return of the OP_RETURN

Aaron and Sjors discuss the proposal to remove the OP_RETURN limit from …
2025-04-20

Episode 97: Bitcoin Core v29

Aaron and Sjors talk about the new Bitcoin Core 29.0 release..===This ep…
2025-02-05

Episode 96: Mining Decentralization Update

Stratum v2, DATUM, Bitaxe, P2Pool and friends. In Bitcoin, Explained 96,…
2024-10-07

Episode 95: Bitcoin Core v28.0

In Bitcoin, Explained 95, Aaron and Sjors discuss the new Bitcoin Core 2…
2024-07-07

Episode 94: Silent Payments part 2

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, Aaron and Sjors welcome Ruben Som…
2024-05-29

Episode 93: The Great Consensus Cleanup Revival (And an Update on the To…

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, Aaron and Sjors discuss the Great…
2024-04-10

Episode 92: Bitcoin Core 27.0

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, Aaron and Sjors explain what new …
2024-03-31

Episode 91: Splicing

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, Aaron and Sjors are once more joi…
2024-02-23

Episode 90: Asynchronous Lightning Payments

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, Aaron and Sjors are joined by Bre…
2024-01-22

Episode 89: B-money and RPOW

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, Aaron and Sjors discuss two more …
2024-01-03

Episode 88: Hashcash and Bit Gold

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, Aaron and Sjors discuss two elect…
2023-12-21

Episode 87: The Block 1,983,702 Problem

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, Aaron and Sjors discuss the so-ca…
2023-12-06

Episode 86: Ocean Tides



In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, Aaron and Sjors explain what fe…
2023-10-05

Episode 84: Marathon Pool’s Invalid Block (And Some Updates About the Sh…



In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, Aaron and Sjors discuss an inva…
2023-08-17

Episode 83: The Milk Sad Vulnerability

In this episode, Aaron (@AaronvanW) and Sjors (@provoost) discuss a vuln…
2023-07-11

Episode 82: Scaling to Billions of Users

In this episode, Aaron (@AaronvanW) and Sjors (@provoost) discuss a rece…
2023-06-26

Episode 81: Bitcoin Core 25.0

In this episode, Aaron (@AaronvanW) and Sjors (@provoost) discuss Bitcoi…
2023-06-13

Episode 80: Stratum V2

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, Aaron (@AaronvanW) and Sjors (@pr…
2023-05-23

Episode 79: The Witness Discount

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, Aaron (@AaronvanW) and Sjors (@pr…
2023-05-09

Episode 78: Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBTs) (And Dutch Auc…

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, Aaron (@AaronvanW) and Sjors (@pr…
2023-04-24

Episode 77: Peer-to-peer Encryption

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, Aaron and Sjors discuss BIP 324, …
2023-04-15

Episode 76: Stamps (And the Invalid Block Caused by It)

In this episode of Bitcoin, Explained, Aaron and Sjors explain Stamps, a…