What the heck is SegWit
People who joined the crazy world of Bitcoin near the end of 2017, have been bombarded by the word SegWit as they peeked through the rabbit hole. The end half of 2017 was one the most critical year in Bitcoin’s history. It concluded the biggest…
Submarine Swaps and the era of Trustware.
Since the beginning of this decade when Bitcoin was conceived to be the first viable deployment of a decentralized monetary network, a world of mathematical cryptographic magic has opened up in front of us. This world of magic comprises of obscured number theory tricks and theorems…
What is BITCOINS, Cryptocurrency, and Blockchain Technology ??? In Simple words.
Before I talk about Bitcoin, let me warn you of something very important. If you are thinking about buying coins other than Bitcoin, please do more study in this field. Almost all of them are scams. The rest is not proven to be of any…
Security Considerations while designing Hexa
Our goal behind building Hexa was to offer something that’s both secure and easily usable by people who are new to the cryptocurrency ecosystem. We had considered different attack vectors which could be used by bad actors and thought about how Hexa would handle each…
“Hello, I think I have been hacked!!”
Today we have come to rely so much on other companies managing our digital worlds through ‘accounts’, that we don’t realise the dangers of such a structure. Companies having your identities, photos, information, etc. provide a honeypot for hackers who will go to any extent…
SoundMoney.simplify()
Self Sovereign, Secure, Simple, Smart and Stable. BitHyve is on a quest to achieve all this, in a nutshell the quest is to make sound money simplified. The soundness comes from the bitcoin protocol and simplification from expertise in creating customer focused digital applications.
Breaking Hexa after Breaking Bitcoin
Every Bitcoin conference is unique in itself — no BS, interesting discussions and most importantly, cool attacks. This year’s breaking bitcoin had attacks on hardware wallets, discussions on best wallet practices and much more to learn from. However, in the context of Hexa, two things caught…
Introducing Hexa Wallet
There are some great wallets out there but describing them is pretty simple — choose one of the following: ‘too-complex’, ‘custodial’, ‘privacy-leaking’ or ‘not-so-secure’. For advanced users, wallets like Samourai and Wasabi are pioneers in privacy tech. Ledger and Trezor take a security first approach…
Accounts vs. Wallets: Importance of self-sovereignty in the digital world
This post is not about blockchain or crypto but it applies to practically everything in the digital world. These terms are used very loosely and so let us start with trying to understand what they really should mean.