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Bitcoin Cash
Cup of Coffee with BTC? The transaction issue has divided the Bitcoin community into two groups. One group claims that Bitcoin was never designed to be a “cup of coffee”…
Centralized databases versus Blockchain
Where Blockchain may not be a solution What non-monetary projects generally need, is a centralized, upgradeable and scalable system. Each of these needs is made greatly more difficult when utilizing…
Blockchain books and resources
There are plenty of youtube videos of course, but these books will give you a solid grounding of how to ‘think like a blockchainer’ Building blockchain projects - Narayan Prusty.…
Blockchain Killer Apps
Although I highlight seven distinct areas where blockchain can deliver a knockout, a couple of these are more than killer apps. They address foundational issues with blockchains and, while there…
Blockchain conference
Anuj Varma is a regular speaker on Cloud Computing, Data Science and Blockchain technologies. He also conducts youth camps to generate math, science and computer science interest amongst kids. Chain…
Blockchain (questions that you were too shy to ask) and the industries being disrupted by it…
What is the decentralized web? Does the price of Bitcoin have anything to do with the underlying blockchain? How do trustless systems work? What businesses will blockchain disrupt? Can the…
Running a full node (BookKeeping) versus Mining
Running a Full Node Running a node is just listening for other nodes to pass you data, checking that its valid, and passing it in further. So a peer…
Painful Fiat Currency
When the crypto markets took a nose-dive, I felt it was a good time to put some cash in. As I learnt, traditional banks are still slow as molasses…I started…
Generate a BTC address from a passphrase
Here’s something fun to try. Pick a simple passphrase – sausage$ echo -n 'sausage' | sha256sum 30caae2fcb7c34ecadfddc45e0a27e9103bd7cfc87730d7818cc096b1266a683 - Load up bitaddress and paste that private key into the 'wallet details'…
Writing your own ERC20 token
Server Side DAPP Backend – Requires RPC Server. Remember DAPP backend runs on ALL the nodes (blockchain)! DAPP Frontent – Requires a web server (for now) and a special browser…