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Alderlux research and official explainers on how Bitcoin works: keys and wallets, the network, mining and energy, and market behaviour. Every entry links to its original source.
Describes the main types of cryptoasset (exchange, utility and security tokens and stablecoins) and sets out HMRC's view that tax treatment follows a token's nature and use, not that it is money.
Explains what distributed ledger technology is, describing a digital system recording transactions in multiple places with no central store, and citing the Bitcoin blockchain as a public record of transactions.
Explains how proof of work and proof of stake reach consensus on a distributed ledger, including mining, validators, staking, slashing penalties and the rewards each can generate.
Describes how public and private keys work for exchange tokens, how the public address is visible on the ledger, and that anyone holding both keys can authorise transactions from that address.
Describes cold wallets (hardware and paper) and software wallets (online and client-side) as containers for private keys, noting that losing a wallet does not affect the existence of the tokens.
Does the cost of mining Bitcoin predict its price? Post-halving mining economics, global hashrate and energy prices, on 2025 and 2026 data.
An open-source, experimental Layer-1 blockchain combining Ethereum-style smart contracts with bioinformatics-focused data storage and computation.
CIPNFT: a framework for converting intellectual property — research, datasets, discoveries — into encrypted digital assets on a blockchain.
A trader's instinct — weak rallies don't last — frozen into a testable rule over 3.6 years of Bitcoin data. A provisional 78–82%, and where the rule dies.
How blockchain works from first principles: the distributed ledger, private keys, proof-of-work, the halving and hard forks, and where the real-world risk sits.
Understanding Bitcoin as a financial asset, a new technology, a means of transparency — and the network that made digital scarcity possible for the first time.
Whether the two markets disagree tells you almost nothing about which way price goes next; what little it tells you, spot was already saying on its own.