I was trying to understand BIP-70 Payment Requests a bit better, mainly because I am confused by BitPay’s claim that they can somehow block “mistaken” transactions:

We can also analyze transactions to make sure an adequate bitcoin miner fee is…

Bitcoin on an Orange Pi (using Armbian)

There are some good articles on how to run a Bitcoin Core full node on a Raspberry Pi. But…

On a warm summer day I crave a frappuccino. Unfortunately drugs such as caffeine, sugar and cacao were declared illegal decades ago. This happened because young unemployed college graduates often felt triggered by loud caffeinated rich people. Sugar was causing mass obesity and was also a…

Bitcoin Core + Lightning + Rails on AWS

Recently I’ve been working on a project code-named Matreon. It’s like Patreon, but for the…