The American National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) is rather busy on the cryptographic front these days. Not only has it been busy in the area of Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), it ...

Microsoft Windows and other computer operating systems manage hard drive space by dividing it into equally-sized units called clusters or blocks. Over time, however, a drive's block structure becomes ...

In this sense, 4KB block sizes are exceptionally inefficient for a 40KB drive. In most instances, this will not be a problem, especially since you're using 4KB blocks and have disks so large that the ...

A filesystem is a fundamental component of any operating system. It is the system that manages how data is stored and retrieved on a storage device. In the world of Linux, filesystems play a crucial ...

The founder of Digital Bitcoin Art and Assets believes that smart contracts on Bitcoin could solve the myriad problems created by Ordinals. The hype around Bitcoin Ordinals and BRC-20 tokens is ...

The cryptocurrency sector has undergone a seismic shift in recent years as retail investors and publicly listed companies make their way into the space. Globally, estimates suggest that the number of ...

When you really try to nail down what makes a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin really Bitcoin, the more technical you get, the closer you are to discussing block size. A block is really a set of data, and ...