Bitcoin
What Bitcoin Improvement Proposals Are and How They Change Bitcoin
Bitcoin Improvement Proposals are the numbered design documents through which the protocol evolves — from wallet backup words to SegWit and Taproot — reviewed…
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Tomás Ferreira
Independent editorial contributor covering crypto markets, digital assets and fintech for VUGA Network publications.
Articles by Tomás Ferreira
Crypto News
Crypto Hacks Hit a Record 207 Incidents in H1 2026 While Losses Fell Below $1 Billion
Attack count reached an all-time high in the first half of 2026 even as dollar losses dropped to 972 million — a quarter of 2025's haul — per TRM Labs.
Bitcoin
How Many Confirmations a Bitcoin Transaction Actually Needs
A bitcoin transaction is never declared final by decree; each added block multiplies the cost of reversing it, and the conventional answer for large amounts is…
Crypto News
Bitcoin's June Slide: A Failed Rally, an 8.3% Day and Unwound Leverage
Bitcoin has given back its May recovery and slipped 8.3 percent in a single day after a failed early-June rally — a drawdown driven by leveraged positioning…
Trading
How the Funding Rate Basis Trade Works
The basis trade buys spot bitcoin and sells the perpetual future against it, harvesting the funding the leveraged crowd pays — market-neutral in price, but not…