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The Beacon System: How did:btcr2 Scales DID Updates on Bitcoin
May 8, 2026
Deep dive into the three-tier beacon architecture (Singleton, CAS, SMT) and how aggregation amortizes on-chain costs.
ION and Bitcoin: How a DID Layer-2 Anchored Itself to the Chain
May 1, 2026
A technical walkthrough of ION's Sidetree-on-Bitcoin design — and an honest accounting of its current status now that Microsoft has pivoted to did:web.
From Taproot to DIDs: How Bitcoin Protocol Upgrades Enabled did:btcr2
Apr 24, 2026
How Taproot activation, Schnorr signatures, and Bech32m encoding directly shaped btcr2's design decisions.
Zero-Cost DID Creation: How did:btcr2 Eliminates the On-Chain Requirement
Apr 17, 2026
How btcr2 identifiers are derived offline from secp256k1 keys or genesis documents, and why this changes the economics of decentralized identity.
Introducing did:btcr2 — A Second-Generation Bitcoin DID Method
Apr 10, 2026
What btcr2 is, why a v2 was needed, and how it improves on the original BTCR with zero-cost creation, stable identifiers, and private resolution.
Self-Sovereign Identity vs. Federated Identity: What Businesses Need to Understand
Apr 3, 2026
Comparing SSI with OAuth/SAML and why the shift matters for data ownership.
The W3C DID Standard and Bitcoin: Current State, Tooling, and What's Next
Mar 27, 2026
An overview of the DID spec landscape, Bitcoin-native DID methods, and the road ahead.
Decentralized Identity on Bitcoin: Why the Base Layer Matters for Trust
Mar 20, 2026
Examining the tradeoffs of anchoring DIDs to Bitcoin and how they compare to other approaches.