2/ With the OCC interpretive letter giving nationally chartered-banks the greenlight to pursue custody strategies and with companies like @MicroStrategy and @SnappaHQ leading a trend of shifting cash reserves to bitcoin, business adoption is becoming more mainstream by the day
3/ Businesses have different challenges than individuals
There are multiple employees, shareholders, investors, etc that share in financial controls
Financial controls are equally, if not more important, than sovereignty, censorship resistance, and avoiding counterparty risk
4/ Holding private keys materially increases security, but entrusting any single employee or representative with private keys is usually not an acceptable trade-off for companies that want to eliminate counterparty risk and protect against censorship.
5/ Our advanced business suite is a significant upgrade to basic business accounts
Businesses now have a custody option that removes counterparty risk, eliminates single points of failure, and allows multiple members within an organization to collaborate with each other.
6/ Multiple individuals within a business can hold keys, whether a combination of a CEO, CFO, controller or others, without any single individual able to unilaterally move funds.
7/ Business logic on top of a secure collaborative multisig base means that companies have the system level controls familiar to a traditional banking suite combined with the unparalleled bitcoin native security of multiple cold stored private keys
8/ These accounts are designed to be the bitcoin standard for all businesses, whether:
The mempool, where unconfirmed #bitcoin transactions wait, has become fairly congested.
What happens if you offer a low fee during periods of congestion? You run the risk of the transaction getting “stuck” in the mempool.
But how do you get it “unstuck?”🧵
Attached to each unconfirmed transaction is an incentive set by the transaction author, called a mining fee. Fees encourage miners to prioritize transactions.
Fees are denominated in bitcoin and calculated using a fee rate, expressed in satoshis per byte (ex: 21 sats/vB).
There are two methods to get your transaction “unstuck.”
Replace-by-fee (RBF) and child-pays-for-parent (CPFP) are both techniques that allow a user to manipulate transactions and manage fees when a transaction is still viewed as unspent by the network.
1/ Understanding bitcoin addresses and how they work is important for operating confidently in the bitcoin economy. In this thread, we'll break down what addresses look like, how to use them, and the basics of how they're created! 🧵
2/ A bitcoin address is a tool for receiving bitcoin. You can think of it somewhat like an email address—anyone with one of your bitcoin addresses can send you bitcoin, just like anyone who has one of your email addresses can send you an email.
3/ Each address looks like a collection of letters and numbers, here are some examples:
1/ The fee rates to move your #bitcoin quickly have been quite elevated in recent weeks, and over the last 48 hours we’ve seen some of the highest fee rates in bitcoin history!
Here's what you need to know... 🧵
2/ First, how do transaction fees work?
One bitcoin block is mined every 10 minutes on average, but that block can hold a limited amount of data. The limitation is intentional; it lowers the burden of running a bitcoin node, which in turn helps keep bitcoin decentralized.
3/ Transactions use data, so each block can hold a limited number of transactions. Want your transaction to be processed in the next mined block? You’ll be competing with other bitcoin users for this valuable block space. The winners are those who make the highest bid.
1/ When balancing all security and accessibility considerations, we believe 2-of-3 is the optimal multisig setup for most individuals and businesses holding material amounts of bitcoin. Why? 🧵
2/ First: Always secure your seed phrases. 𝌖
3/ In bitcoin custody, seeds (or their human-readable representation as seed phrases) are the secret that needs to be secured. You can think of hardware wallets as user interfaces for your seed; you use them to sign transactions with private keys derived from your seed.
If you're a seasoned bitcoiner who knows their way around hardware wallets, you can set up a #multisig vault on our platform yourself. Three resources you need to get started below...
This guide explains how to physically secure your hardware wallets and seed phrase backups, securing your multisig configuration file, and vault maintenance.