Running the Bitcoin core daemon as a Docker container

Chef is insanely slow. In this post I’ll…

Obtaining and offline securing ether for the upcoming Ethereum launch

A very long and detailed guide to purchasing and securing ether. Anyone with less than 10 years of programming experience should ask a friend for help as soon as they get stuck.

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 because I pre-ordered the Trezor for 1 BTC.

Backing up an Amazon EBS volume with CoreOS

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

CoreOS is all the rage these days and I find myself having to reinvent a lot of patterns. At…

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 an installation of Ubuntu 14.04 (desktop image). The computer has never been connected to the Internet.

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. His new project is called Stellar and has received a $3M loan from Stripe to fund development.