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
2021-02-12

Episode 27: Softchains

In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and …
2021-02-05

Episode 26: Replace-By-Fee (RBF)

In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and …
2021-01-29

Episode 25: Compact Client-Side Block Filters (Neutrino)

In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and …
2021-01-22

Episode 24: Bitcoin Core 0.21.0

In this episode of “The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum an…
2021-01-15

Episode 23: Drivechain

In this episode of “The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado,” hosts Aaron van Wirdum an…
2021-01-08

Episode 22: The Lightning Network

In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and …
2020-12-18

Episode 21: Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) In Bitcoin (And Why It …

In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Aaron and Sjors discuss why…
2020-12-11

Episode 20: RSK, Federated Sidechains and Powpeg

In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and …
2020-12-04

Episode 19: Child Pays for Parent (CPFP) and Package Relay

In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, hosts Aaron van Wirdum and …
2020-11-20

Episode 18: Erebus Attacks

In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Aaron and Sjors discuss the…
2020-11-13

Episode 17: Eclipse Attacks

In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Aaron and Sjors discuss Ecl…
2020-11-06

Episode 16: Open Timestamps

In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Aaron and Sjors discuss Ope…
2020-10-30

Episode 15: Utreexo

On this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Aaron and Sjors are once ag…
2020-10-23

Episode 14: Headers First, Assume Valid and Assume UTXO

On this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Aaron and Sjors discuss “As…
2020-10-16

Episode 13: Tor v3 Support in Bitcoin Core 0.21

Bitcoin Core 0.21 will support Tor v3 addresses. Aaron and Sjors explain…
2020-10-09

Episode 12: Blind Merged Mining and the Perpetual One-Way Peg

In this episode of The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Ruben Somsen returns to exp…
2020-10-02

Episode 11: Easypaysy

In this episode Sjors and Aaron discuss Jose Femenias' Easypaysy proposa…
2020-09-25

Episode 10: Signet

Sjors and Aaron discuss Signet, a new type of testnet for Bitcoin that w…
2020-09-25

Episode 9: The Libsecp256k1 Library

Schnorr signature support was merged into the libsec256k1 library last w…
2020-09-25

Episode 8: Statechains

Aaron and Sjors welcome their first guest on to the show, Ruben Somsen, …
2020-09-25

Episode 7: XPubs

In this episode of the Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Sjors and Aaron explain wha…
2020-09-25

Episode 6: Payment Pools

In this episode of the Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Sjors and Aaron discuss the…
2020-09-25

Episode 4: Miniscript

In this episode of the Van Wirdum Sjorsnado, Aaron and Sjors dive into M…