Blog
Announcing the Information Hub Site
The Bismuth Foundation is proud to introduce our new, community-powered Information Hub.
March 26, 2025
Bismuth Node Database Snapshots (June 2024)
Using the provided snapshots significantly reduces syncing time for both the main-net and hypernode databases.
June 20, 2024
Bismuth has been Listed on XeggeX Exchange
The Bismuth Foundation has some fantastic news to share!
March 2, 2024
January 2024 - Progress Report
This Bismuth Progress Report covers December 14th, 2023 to January 15th, 2024.
January 15, 2024
How to Run Tornado Wallet with a Custom IP
Here is the Tornado Bismuth Wallet Startup Guide.
November 15, 2023
January 2023 - Progress Report
This Bismuth Progress Report covers December 14th, 2022 to January 14th, 2023.
January 14, 2023
January 2022 - Progress Report
This Bismuth Progress Report covers December 14, 2021 to January 14, 2022.
January 17, 2022
Using the BIS<>BSC Bridge Crystal
To swap between native BIS and BNB wBIS token, you need the newest Tornado wallet (v0.1.43 or more) with the BscBridge Crystal activated, as pictured above.
May 12, 2021
Using the BIS<>ETH Bridge Crystal
To swap between native BIS and ETH wBIS token, you need the newest Tornado wallet (v0.1.41 or more) with the EthBridge Crystal activated, as pictured above.
April 21, 2021
Bismuth 2.0 - Official Announcement
Late last year, the Bismuth Foundation unveiled “Bismuth2.0”. The reveal was brief, did not go into any detail and the team remained silent on the topic for the following months.
February 24, 2021
Python and State Machines
Are you familiar with Finite state machines? They are everywhere, yet, we don’t see them as such.
February 24, 2021
Real time Hypernodes map from Dingo
We’re always happy to see new users jump in on the Bismuth Discord and ask questions. More over dev questions… And above all, we like it when these users then come back with a “Oh, by the way, I just did that small thing…”
February 21, 2021
Bismuth Mobile Wallet - Genesis and Reward
For way too long, Bismuth had no proper mobile wallet.
January 15, 2021
My Bismuth Wallet - Mobile Wallet
For way too long, Bismuth had no proper mobile wallet, or was dependent on third party wallets. Those days are over!
January 14, 2021
Bismuth Toolbox, interview and reward
Months ago, Bismuth user “Whatever” developed a shiny app to monitor his BIS mining rigs, wallets and Hypernodes. Apps you code for yourself, because you feel an urging need for it can end up most useful, and this one makes no exception.
January 1, 2021
Beyond DeFi with Bismuth
The main difference between Bismuth and Ethereum up until this point was the level of contract decentralization.
August 12, 2020
The largest ignored use case for cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrencies and trading. They are indivisible.
May 30, 2020
Tesla Battery Monitoring
Tesla is a market leader in electric vehicles (EVs). They have currently sold and delivered more than 1 million EVs worldwide while production is ramping up fast with new factories in Europe and China.
May 25, 2020
Decentralized Condition Monitoring
Condition monitoring (CM) is the basis for condition based maintenance (CBM). CBM is an alternative to calendar based maintenance, where an asset is serviced in regular time intervals.
April 30, 2020
HelloWorld Crystal for Bismuth’s Tornado Wallet
Bismuth is a chemical element and a metal with number 83 in the periodic table.
April 13, 2020
BisBabble Interview - ShadowCrypto
Welcome to another edition of BisBabble! In this episode, we chat with ShadowCrypto, a dedicated Bismuth supporter and key contributor to the Pawer bot.
February 7, 2020
BisBabble Interview - Endogen
In this second issue of the “BisBabble” series we welcome Endogen, a long-time Bismuth supporter and developer of the Bismuth Telegram Bot, Bauer.
January 18, 2020
BisBabble Interview - Aravind
Welcome to the BisBabble series! In this issue, we chat with Aravind, a recent contributor to the Bismuth project. He shares insights into his background, interests, and development work.
December 18, 2019
Bismuth Hard Fork
During November 2019 the Bismuth community went with the first governance vote, about supply emission. The issue was overwhelming votes for a fork to support a supply reduction.
November 19, 2019
Outcome of Bismuth’s First Governance Vote
Decisions are the most crucial part of advancing a project. Without them, ideas lie in-acted upon, development stalls, and instead of progress there is stagnation.
November 6, 2019
Voting page Helper - Dev and Bounty
Bismuth community is currently voting whether or not change the supply emission (see BGVP-1). In order to allow easy and un-restricted access to the vote, the team went for a full client side helper to generate voting transactions. This ensures full privacy and allows to vote from any wallet. External help was welcome to get it successfully running and a Bounty will be awarded.
October 18, 2019
BGV-01 - Bismuth Governance Vote 1
Preamble - This blog article explains the BGV-01 motion and the options you can vote for.
September 10, 2019
Bismuth Governance Shift - Part 2
Preamble In the previous post, the governance shift that is to take place with Bismuth was introduced, and the ETH voting protocol was examined. It was shown that this protocol does come with several issues that could be important flaws in the Bismuth context.
August 30, 2019
Bismuth Governance Shift - Part 1
During the first two and a half years of the Bismuth blockchain project, important governance actions have been decided by the group of foundation members. Now the core team finds it is time to involve the community deeper into governance questions, and make more use of community feedback.
August 29, 2019
Coin Supply
When designing the coin supply and rewards model for a cryptocurrency, there are many factors to take into consideration.
July 3, 2019
Bismuth Strategic Hard Fork v4.3.0.0
Over the past couple of months, Bismuth has undergone major shifts- technologically, socially, and economically. We witnessed a massive upgrade and restructuring of the core code that spanned over 200 commits, that was finalized in version 4.2.9.2 in late March of this year.
May 17, 2019
Autogame Tournament – One Million Block
20 Months after its mainnet launch, the Bismuth network reached the 1 000 000 blocks milestone.
January 21, 2019
Semantic Interpretation
Solution to the codebase consensus conflict in context of the Bismuth Blockchain.
July 19, 2018
Exploring the Bismuth Plugin System
When noticing that Bismuth ($BIS) has a plugin system, I was somewhat surprised—because I don’t know any other blockchain-based cryptocurrency that openly promotes having a plugin system.
July 16, 2018