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Nov
24
Boost Your Bitcoin Node Sync With UTXO Snapshots

Boost Your Bitcoin Node Sync With UTXO Snapshots

A guide for how to significantly speed up syncing a new Bitcoin Core node using the UTXO snapshot feature.
3 min read
Jul
17
How to Securely Create a Bitcoin Seed Phrase in 9 Simple Steps

How to Securely Create a Bitcoin Seed Phrase in 9 Simple Steps

A user-friendly guide for how to generate seed phrases from your own entropy.
2 min read
Jul
18
How to Protect Contact Forms from Spam with Proof of Work

How to Protect Contact Forms from Spam with Proof of Work

An argument and guide for using hashcash puzzles to protect contact forms from spammers instead of captchas.
6 min read
Apr
10
From Fat to Fit in Four Months

From Fat to Fit in Four Months

Lessons learned from my experiment in maximizing weight loss with the least amount of effort.
12 min read
Mar
28
How to Configure OpenVPN on a DD-WRT Router Without Breaking Streaming Video Services

How to Configure OpenVPN on a DD-WRT Router Without Breaking Streaming Video Services

Protect your internet privacy for all the devices on your home network with a single configuration!
4 min read
Sep
29
A Modest Privacy Protection Proposal

A Modest Privacy Protection Proposal

How to reclaim your privacy in the surveillance age.
31 min read
Dec
24

Statoshi Developer’s Guide

Statoshi is a fork of Bitcoin Core with several hundred additional lines of code for emitting metrics to a StatsD instance. You can view…
5 min read
Sep
15

How to Solo Mine on Bitcoin’s Testnet

I’m a Bitcoin engineer, so I often need to test new code but I don’t want to risk losing valuable bitcoins in case there is a bug…
2 min read
Jun
24

Statoshi.info Account Creation Guide

Now you can create, save, and share your own custom dashboards on statoshi.info! It only takes a couple minutes to set up if you follow…
2 min read
Apr
06
How to create a BitGo Wallet with Mycelium Entropy generated keys

How to create a BitGo Wallet with Mycelium Entropy generated keys

A guide to generating your own cold storage private key on a dedicated entropy device.
2 min read