I originally wrote this as a combination piece for both consumers and business owners but the business piece became a much longer write-up as I fleshed it out and I chose to split them. …

The current BTCPayServer documentation shows how to create an Nginx reverse proxy to a Tor site, and it is well-documented and works great. However, I needed (and saw that others also needed) an Apache method of doing this also. I like Nginx but as a DevOp, a lot of my…

By Doug Morton, Director, South Carolina Emerging Tech Association @brewsbitcoin As part of several hats I wear, including Administrator of the Charleston Bitcoin Meetup, and a Director of the South Carolina Emerging Tech Association, I was invited to go to El Salvador to participate in the final exam and diploma…

What an amazing time to be in this industry. Point of Sale has been the MOST BORING industry for decades. And I should know, I’ve been a part of it for 14 years selling point of sale systems from Intuit and Microsoft. I have been looking to replace my legacy…

One of the major failures of legacy point of sale systems is generally its inability to embrace new technology or roll-out new features that are cutting edge or perhaps against their ethics or standards. …

Don’t look now, Scott Chipolina and Decrypt.co, but your bias colors are showing…. Today, I was greeted by a newsfeed article from Decrypt.co titled ‘Some Salvadorans Remain Behind Bukele’s Bitcoin Policy Despite Warning’ written by Scott Chipolina. El Salvador’s Bitcoin policy has been mired in controversy in recent weeks and…

One of the pains we deal with in the real world is banking. Banking is a major part of our lives with checking, savings, credit cards, loans and mortgages. Banking is also full of ways to stop you from using these services from KYC to credit scores to arbitrary and…

I’ve been watching Seinfeld reruns on Netflix. The Master Of Your Domain episode is regularly on the must-watch lists. It’s pretty funny. The Seinfeld ‘Master of Your Domain’ theme is a degree or two different from self-sovereignty’s ‘Master of your Domain’. The former is being in control of your self-pleasuring…

The Start9 Embassy is a great little device built on the Raspberry Pi that provides self-sovereign personal server capabilities. This includes hosting Bitcoin and Lightning Network nodes, privacy centric messaging apps, password storage, social media, digital wallets, BTCPayServer and more. If you want to add functionality beyond the ample software…