Andreas Brekken
Andreas Brekken

Andreas Brekken

Editor of Shitcoin.com, Andreas Brekken, and SideShift.ai RESEARCH
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Hyperdogecoinization — an initiative by SideShift AI

In recent weeks SideShift AI has been busy understanding the exact value of 1 DOGE. As you can imagine it has been a lengthy endeavour.

Mar 4, 2019 · 2 min read

Meet Shifty, the robot that randomly tests SideShift AI

With the number of ways to swap coins on SideShift AI having reached over 500, it’s hard to know that everything is working as expected.

Jan 31, 2019 · 1 min read

Integrating Zcash Shielded Transactions on SideShift AI

Zcash has two types of addresses/payments. A transparent, t-address, is just like a Bitcoin address and uses the same commands as the…

Jan 30, 2019 · 4 min read

Integrating Blockstream’s Liquid payments on SideShift AI

Blockstream’s Liquid product is a fork of Bitcoin that replaces the consensus model from proof-of-work to a federated consensus model…

Jan 17, 2019 · 5 min read

Bitcoin Lightning Network #4: What happens when you close half of the Lightning Network?

Operating a Lightning Node is easy, but then again it doesn’t pay much either. What happens when you close down half of the Lightning…

Jul 27, 2018 · 4 min read

Bitcoin Lightning Network #3: Paying for goods and services

Lightning Network aims to make micro-payments faster, cheaper, and more secure than zero-confirmation Bitcoin transactions. Is it unfairly…

Jul 25, 2018 · 11 min read

Bitcoin Lightning Network #2: We must first become the Lightning Network

Lightning Network payments are routed through nodes to optimize for cost and reliability. Will payments route through super-connected…

Jul 19, 2018 · 6 min read

Bitcoin Lightning Network #1: Can I compile and run a node?

Lightning Network is a layer-two scaling solution for Bitcoin. What’s it like being a Lightning Network user nearly 3 years after its…

Jul 16, 2018 · 8 min read

IOTA: Cannot be used for IoT. Loss of funds may occur.

IOTA is a tangle coin that ICO’d on Bitcointalk in JINN, another coin. It promises to bring cryptocurrency to the Internet-of-Things. But…

Feb 9, 2018 · 15 min read

Dash Proposal Aftermath: The Twitter Ads Campaign to Promote Dash

I’m glad to report that my Dash budget proposal to promote my review of Dash has been approved!

Dec 7, 2017 · 3 min read

Dash: A Governance and Privacy Coin That’s Surprisingly Easy To Use

Dash is a governance coin previously known as DarkCoin. Its followers include Max Keiser and are so hardcore that many dismiss Dash as a…

Oct 13, 2017 · 15 min read

Monero: Private And Difficult to Use

Monero is a privacy coin best known for its use on DarkNet markets. What’s it like being a Monero user 3 years after launch? Andreas finds…

Sep 18, 2017 · 12 min read

OpenBazaar: What Happened to Bitcoin’s eBay Killer App?

OpenBazaar is eBay on the blockchain, promoted as the “killer app” for Bitcoin since 2014. Has OpenBazaar’s $4.3M in VC funding made eBay…

Sep 4, 2017 · 10 min read

Storj: Not a Dropbox Killer

Storj is a “storage coin” with over $30M of ICO funding. The thousands of investors would be outraged if Storj was anything less than a…

Aug 24, 2017 · 14 min read

Getting started with OpenTSDB on Amazon AWS: Part 1

OpenTSDB is an open-source time series database. In this part we’ll install HBase and OpenTSDB with a minimal setup on an EC2 instance.

Mar 8, 2017 · 2 min read

Ledger Wallet, the €29.00 hardware Bitcoin wallet

I ordered the Ledger Wallet as soon as I heard about it on r/bitcoin. Ledger Wallet is a cheap alternative to the Trezor ($119), especially…

Dec 17, 2014 · 4 min read

Backing up an Amazon EBS volume with CoreOS

Learn how to safely back up an Amazon EBS using a CoreOS managed systemd timer

Oct 2, 2014 · 2 min read

Running the Bitcoin core daemon as a Docker container

Chef is insanely slow. In this post I’ll investigate Docker under CoreOS as an alternative.

Sep 15, 2014 · 2 min read

Generating a cold wallet for Stellar

There aren't any easy-to.use tools for creating Stellar cold wallets yet, so I’ll do a walkthrough here. I’m doing this from a laptop with…

Aug 10, 2014 · 1 min read

Compiling stellard on Ubuntu 12.04

There’s nothing quite like showing up to work and reading that Jed McCaleb, the inventor of Ripple, has forked Ripple into a new project…

Aug 1, 2014 · 2 min read