BitMEX Research

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Title	Archive.is Links	Date
64 Byte Transactions	New	09/12/2025
A Bit Of A Stretch	New	14/11/2025
All For One & One For All	Old New	30/09/2025
Ordinals – Impact On Node Runners	Old New	08/09/2025
Unstoppable JPGs In Private Keys	Old New	26/08/2025
Treasury Company Advisory Agreements	Old New	12/08/2025
Quantum Safe Lamport Signatures	Old New	21/07/2025
Bitcoin Versus The IMF	Old New	12/07/2025
The 2015 Spam Attacks	Old New	19/05/2025
Removing Bitcoin’s Guardrails	Old New	07/05/2025
Heatbiting The Office	Old New	24/04/2025
What Causes America’s Trade Deficit?	Old New	05/04/2025
Three Staged Assassinations	Old New	04/04/2025
The Timewarp Attack	Old New	31/03/2025
Bitcoin’s Duplicate Transactions	Old New	24/03/2025
Trump’s Memecoin – Political Corruption On The Blockchain	Old New	24/02/2025
Amir Taaki Interview	Old New	07/01/2025
Amir Taaki: Idealists vs Entrepreneurs	Old New	02/01/2025
The Bitcoin Press Center	Old New	30/12/2024
MicroStrategy Bonds – When Liquidation?	Old New	24/10/2024
Babylon & The Taproot Success Story	Old New	19/10/2024
Bitcoin Layer 2s – The CoreDAO Model	Old New	14/08/2024
PoW vs PoS – Economic Cost To Attack	Old New	25/07/2024
PoW Centralisation Hysteria – What Size War Chest Is Required?	Old New	29/04/2024
Assigning BIP Numbers	Old New	26/04/2024
Satoshi’s 2014 Email Hack	Old New	02/04/2024
Ethereum ETFs & Staking	Old New	06/03/2024
COPA vs CSW – Day 16 – Craig’s Lawyers Do COPA’s Job For Them	Old New	26/02/2024
COPA vs CSW – Day 11 – Stefan Matthews	Old New	19/02/2024
COPA vs CSW – Day 2 Thoughts	Old New	06/02/2024
Cash vs In-kind ETFs	Old New	30/12/2023
Complete List of Cryptocurrency Related ETPs	Old New	25/12/2023
Bitcoin Time Locks	Old New	04/12/2023
Bitcoin’s Culture War – Discussion With Udi Wertheimer	Old New	21/09/2023
Drivechains	Old New	07/08/2023
Gensler’s Done It All Before	Old	18/07/2023
Miner Fee Gathering Capability (Part 2) – Out of Band Fees	Old New	02/06/2023
Lightning Payments – When Are They Too Small To Secure?	Old New	25/05/2023
The Bitcoin Forum	Old New	17/05/2023
Ordinals Data	Old New	08/02/2023
BSV Hardfork – Security Considerations	Old New	14/11/2022
OFAC Sanctions & Ethereum PoS – Some Technical Nuances	Old New	19/08/2022
ETHPoW vs ETH2	Old New	01/08/2022
The OP_Return Wars of 2014 – Dapps Vs Bitcoin Transactions	Old New	12/07/2022
Taproot Demonstration	Old New	23/06/2022
Flashbots	Old New	06/05/2022
OP_CTV – Summer Softfork Shenanigans	Old New	22/04/2022
Mining Bull Market	Old New	11/04/2022
Book review: The Cryptopians (by Laura Shin)	Old New	30/03/2022
Don’t Wait For The Inflationary Endgame	Old New	21/02/2022
Bitcoin’s Lowest Block Hash Values	Old New	14/02/2022
Bitcoin Address Re-use Statistics	Old New	03/02/2022
Checking Ethereum’s Total Supply	Old New	28/12/2021
Ethereum’s New 1MB Blocksize Limit	Old New	02/12/2021
Bitcoin vs Ethereum – Blockchain Size	Old New	22/11/2021
Preventing Channel Jamming	Old New	03/11/2021
Bitcoin’s Carbon Footprint	Old New	02/11/2021
Outsourced Stake	Old New	11/10/2021
Ethereum’s Proof of Stake System – Calculating Penalties &	Old New	13/09/2021
Mapping Out The Macro Endgame	Old New	03/09/2021
BitMEX Research Is Now An Ethereum Staker	Old New	01/09/2021
Proof of Reserves & Liabilities – BitMEX Demonstration	Old New	13/08/2021
Fixing The Privacy Gap In Proof Of Liability Protocols	Old New	12/08/2021
Faster Blockchain Validation with Utreexo Accumulators	Old New	19/05/2021
Breaking Down The Fee Market (EIP-1559)	Old	11/05/2021
Bitcoin Miner Transaction Fee Gathering Capability	Old	27/01/2021
London 2012 – The Second Bitcoin Conference	Old New	29/12/2020
Exchange traded Bitcoin products	Old	09/12/2020
The Growth of Bitcoin Merge Mining	Old	03/11/2020
Call me Ishmael	Old	13/10/2020
Battle of the Dexes	Old New	22/09/2020
Bitcoin Satellite	Old New	14/09/2020
Antminer S19 Pro vs Whatsminer M30S+ (Part 2) – Thermal Image Analysis	Old	18/08/2020
Antminer S19 Pro vs Whatsminer M30S+	Old	17/08/2020
Bitcoin Softfork Activation Methodology	Old	28/07/2020
Battle For ASIC Supremacy	Old	16/06/2020
Subtleties and Security	Old New	28/05/2020
The Crisis Happened: What’s Next?	Old	22/05/2020
Ethereum 2.0	Old	04/05/2020
Life with SARS-CoV-2 (By Leo Weese)	Old New	12/04/2020
Mining Incentives (Part 4): The Impact Of The Halvening	Old New	02/04/2020
Who funds Bitcoin development?	Old	28/03/2020
Central Bank Digital Currency	Old	18/03/2020
Inflation Is Coming	Old	17/03/2020
Lightning Network (Part 7) – Proportion Of Public vs Private Channels	Old New	28/01/2020
Growth In The Level Of Precision Of Bitcoin Spending	Old	27/01/2020
Lightning Network (Part 6) – Over 60,000 Non-Cooperative Channel Closures	Old New	13/01/2020
Build Systems & Security – Bitcoin Is Improving	Old	08/01/2020
Initial Exchange Offerings (Part 2) – Investment Performance Update	Old New	23/12/2019
I CAN has IPO	Old	18/12/2019
Lightning Network (Part 5) – BitMEX Research Launches Penalty Transaction Alert System	Old	15/12/2019
Bitcoin’s Initial Block Download	Old	29/11/2019
Benford’s Law & Cryptocurrency Trading Data	Old	21/11/2019
Announcing txstats.com	Old New	20/11/2019
Bitcoin Cash’s October 2019 Hashrate Volatility Increase	Old	31/10/2019
Bitcoin’s Block Timestamp Protection Rules	Old New	30/10/2019
ForkMonitor: Unexpected Inflation Detection and Warning System	Old New	17/10/2019
The Bitcoin Foundation	Old New	03/09/2019
Lightning Network (Part 4) – All Adopt The Watchtower	Old New	01/08/2019
Lightning Network (Part 3) – Where Is The Justice?	Old	15/07/2019
Facebook Takes on ETF Giant Blackrock, with a Fixed Income ETF called Libra	Old	25/06/2019
The Bitcoin Cash Hardfork – Three Interrelated Incidents	Old New	24/05/2019
Initial Exchange Offerings	Old	13/05/2019
The Schnorr Signature & Taproot Softfork Proposal	Old	08/05/2019
Bitcoin Cash SV – 6 block chainsplit	Old	21/04/2019
The Lightning Network (Part 2) – Routing Fee Economics	Old	27/03/2019
BitMEX Research Launches Ethereum Node Metrics Website – Nodestats.org	Old New	13/03/2019
Anatomy Of The Next Global Financial Crisis	Old New	11/02/2019
The BitMEX Insurance Fund	Old	11/02/2019
The Mystery Of The Bitcoin Nonce Pattern	Old	23/01/2019
Tracking US$24 billion Of Tokens ICO Makers Allocated To Themselves	Old	16/01/2019
Atomic Swaps and Distributed Exchanges: The Inadvertent Call Option	Old	04/01/2019
Would Bitcoin’s mass adoption fundamentally transform the financial system?	Old	03/01/2019
The Price Crash & The Impact On Miners	Old New	09/12/2018
Bitcoin Cash ABC’s rolling 10 block checkpoints	Old New	21/11/2018
Forkmonitor.info updated to estimate the value of mining losses since the Bitcoin Cash split	Old New	16/11/2018
BitMEX Research Sponsors Fork Monitoring Website	Old	04/11/2018
Competing with Bitcoin Core	Old New	15/10/2018
SegWit vs Bitcoin Cash transaction volume update & Bitcoin Cash investor flow update	Old New	14/10/2018
Tether – Q2 Puerto Rico data & Noble Bank looking for a buyer	Old New	02/10/2018
Ethereum holdings in the ICO treasury accounts	Old New	01/10/2018
Unboxing Bitmain’s IPO (Part 2)	Old New	26/09/2018
Unboxing Bitmain’s IPO	Old New	29/08/2018
Does Satoshi have a million bitcoin?	Old	19/08/2018
The bitcoin flash crash to $0.01 in June 2011	Old	18/07/2018
Tether: Puerto Rico financial data quarterly update	Old New	10/07/2018
A brief history of Stablecoins (Part 1)	Old New	02/07/2018
Bitcoin Economics – Deflationary Debt Spiral (Part 3)	Old New	31/05/2018
List of 44 Bitcoin fork tokens since Bitcoin Cash	Old New	21/05/2018
New Ethereum Miner Could be a Game Changer	Old New	24/04/2018
Complete guide to Proof of Stake – Ethereum’s latest proposal & Vitalik Buterin interview	Old	11/04/2018
Bitcoin price correlation: Record high against the S&P 500	Old	25/03/2018
Update: SegWit transaction capacity increase compared to Bitcoin Cash	Old	21/03/2018
Tether: New financial data released by Puerto Rico	Old New	19/03/2018
Diagram of a Bitcoin block: Covert versus overt AsicBoost	Old	01/03/2018
Tether	Old	18/02/2018
A blockchain-specific defensive patent licence	Old	14/02/2018
The Ripple story	Old New	06/02/2018
The art of making softforks: Protection by policy rule	Old New	01/02/2018
The Lightning Network	Old New	25/01/2018
Mining incentives, part 3: Short term vs. long term	Old New	17/01/2018
A complete history of Bitcoin’s consensus forks	Old	27/12/2017
Bitcoin Gold: Investment flow data	Old New	21/12/2017
Public companies with exposure to the crypto space	Old	12/12/2017
Update: Bitcoin Cash investment flow data	Old New	01/12/2017
Bitcoin’s unique value proposition	Old New	29/11/2017
Revisiting “The DAO”	Old New	22/11/2017
The implications for Bitcoin of the new Bitcoin Cash difficulty adjustment mechanism	Old New	16/11/2017
The Litecoin vs. Dogecoin hash-rate wars of 2014 and implications for Bitcoin vs. Bitcoin…	Old New	16/11/2017
Trading Tip: Attempt to obtain free Bitcoin Cash on Bitfinex	Old New	12/11/2017
Non Empty Smaller Block Data By Mining Pool	Old New	31/10/2017
Empty Block Data by Mining Pool	Old New	17/10/2017
The Bitfinex chain split tokens	Old New	24/10/2017
Bitcoin Economics – Credit expansion and the characteristics of money which make it possible…	Old New	20/10/2017
Bitcoin Economics – Credit expansion and the characteristics of money (Part 2)	Old New	20/10/2017
The SegWit2x (B2X) Hardfork – Protecting Yourself and Your Coins, Part 1: Coin Splitting	Old New	13/10/2017
The SegWit2x (B2X) Hardfork – Protecting Yourself and Your Coins, Part 2: Investment Strategies	Old New	13/10/2017
ICOs – Part 1 – An Interactive Visualization of the ICO Space	Old New	29/09/2017
ICOs – Part 2 – Investment Returns	Old New	29/09/2017
The SegWit Transaction Capacity Increase – Part 2 – The First Month After Activation	Old New	22/09/2017
The SegWit Transaction Capacity Increase – Part 1	Old New	21/09/2017
Mining incentives, part 2: Why is China dominant in Bitcoin mining?	Old New	15/09/2017
Mining Incentives – Part 1 – The Economics of the Difficulty Adjustment	Old New	15/09/2017
The SegWit2x Hardfork – The Supporters and Opponents	Old New	08/09/2017
Overview of the covert AsicBoost allegation	Old New	07/09/2017
Bitcoin Cash: Potential Price Implications of Investment Flow Data	Old New	07/09/2017

Books

The Blocksize War: The battle over who controls Bitcoin’s protocol

This book covers Bitcoin’s blocksize war, which was waged from August 2015 to November 2017. On the surface the battle was about the amount of data allowed in each Bitcoin block, however it exposed much deeper issues, such as who controls Bitcoin’s protocol rules.

Reckless: The Story Of Cryptocurrency Interest Rates

This book begins by providing a brief history of interest rates. It discusses the perplexing conundrum of how to determine the most appropriate base interest rate in an economy. The book then scrutinises conventional wisdom with respect to setting interest rates and considers the potential consequences of rates being set at reckless and inappropriate levels.