Introduction This is an announcement of a bug in how NBitcoin handles BIP39. If you backed up a seed, restored it and added some spurious spaces in the seed, the restore would derive a completely different wallet. This test explains the problem. This impact notably Wasabi Wallet, NBXplorer and NBitcoin. …

While my previous blog post show you how to create a proper installer for windows reliably, let’s see how to do it for Mac OS. Peculiarities to Mac OS There is several issues with Mac OS. The main problem lie in the fact that the majority of tutorials rely on XCode. However XCode is…

Introduction In my previous blog post I talked about what I learnt by leaving the Microsoft bubble, and choices I faced when I considered some cross platform UI Frameworks. Whichever your choice, you will end up having to solve one issue: How do you distribute your app to your users? This part…

A windows developer’s journey to Linux Days are gone when .NET was only a Windows thing. The only thing that keep .NET windows is not technical but cultural: The majority of .NET devs have always been windows centric, and you don’t change a culture fast. .NET Core is more than a good cross platform environment, it…

Writing code very often help you to restructure your thoughts in such way that once you are finished, you suddenly realize that you can achieve the same features with less code and in a way easier to understand. We call this refactoring. And actually, after reading your comments, and sleeping…

Once you are done reading this article, check out some correction I made on this follow up article. When I am bored coding, I read about coding. But once in a while, I read something else, and Rothbard is often a good bet to not bore me. For those who…

I tried to explains on this previous article why I don’t like Neutrino. Long story short, the only point I liked was: Increased privacy over BIP37 Setting up a mobile node without middle ware like Electrum This new article is written because, I need to explain: Why I was wrong…

or why it is celebrated for the wrong reason Introduction Neutrino’s goal is to have a simple way for light bitcoin clients to synchronize the state of their wallet, without leaking your wallet information. The downside is that Bitcoin rules are not validated. It is a similar goal to BIP 37…

…keep coding — I started BTCPay Server in August 2017. BTCPay grew organically with merchants gradually coming to the project. Halong Mining and Coincards were among the first very high volume users, and brought me tons of bug and feature requests as I was trying to fill the gap between Bitpay and BTCPay…