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Over the last year I’ve gotten many questions to the tune of “so what do you do exactly?” I’m finally here to answer them! "No lessons were learned and I…
Diving into a new code base can be a challenge. When you start a job, there is usually someone to hold your hand and walk you through file structures, data…
The deeper I go into Bitcoin, the more confusion I see around certain words and definitions. One example I'd like to talk about today involves the terms "stale block" and…
I'm participating in Chaincode Labs' Bitcoin Protocol Development seminar and this week we are taking a deep dive into SegWit. One of the things SegWit fixed was something called the…
"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks." Anyone that has spent enough time in Bitcoin knows about this now famous headline. Most know it's part of the genesis block,…
I recently found myself taking a closer look at transaction validation for Bitcoin signatures. This led me to BIP-66 which declares that all signatures follow the DAS, I mean DER…
Short answer: Check if you have a monitor plugged into the pi. If so, unplug that sucker. If not, read on for a few troubleshooting techniques. I have a LND node…
The holiday season is now upon us. While we're all taking advantage of the massive sales on cryptocurrency, why not pick up some fun gear to go along with it?…
About a month ago I got a Bitcoin full node running on a Raspberry Pi (and later, Lightning). This is how it went down. 1. Get really intimidated and read…