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Ben
Ben
Dec 27, 2015 · 6 min read

What is a “Full-Node” ?

There is a lot of talk of “full-nodes” in Bitcoin. They are apparently very important. From the day-to-day of my Twitter feed you would think there was a direct relationship between the number of reachable nodes on the network and Bitcoin’s health. This is wrong.

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Ben
Ben
Oct 21, 2015 · 2 min read

Ninki Wallet: Transaction Verification

Ninki Wallet performs a number of steps in the background during the process of creating and counter-signing a transaction.

The philosophy behind Ninki is that everything is created on the client and verified on the server. This means…

Ben
Ben
Oct 19, 2015 · 2 min read

Multi-sig in Practice

Ninki Wallet was one of the first wallets to adopt multi-sig for use with mobile apps. Someone asked me once, “Why do you need multi-sig on your phone?” I thought I would blog my reply, as it is actually a very good question.

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Ben
Ben
Oct 19, 2015 · 3 min read

Air-Gapped Address Exchange

People often ask me: “Hey Ben, how come Ninki was the first wallet to make sending Bitcoin as simple as touching someone’s picture and hitting send?”

“Aha”, I correct them, “we weren’t the first…but we were the first to do it without compromising privacy…