Long-form articles about Bitcoin, privacy, self-hosted software, and development.

  1. Why Dice-Only Coldcard Seeds Were Unaffected by the RNG Bug

    Independent tools, historical source, and tests on affected Coldcard firmware show that 99-roll dice-only seeds bypassed the affected firmware randomness path.

  2. Bitcoin’s Safeguard Against Monopoly Seigniorage

    A fundamental aspect of Bitcoin lies in its ability to thwart monopoly seigniorage—a scenario where a single entity profits from the issuance of new currency. Traditional monetary systems, governed by central authorities, can face challenges such as inflation and economic instability due to unchecked money printing. Bitcoin, in contrast, is purposefully structured to prevent any singular entity from monopolizing the creation of new coins, contributing to a more stable and transparent monetary framework.

  3. Promoting privacy and censorship resistance in Bitcoin Core

    How to run nodes as a dual hidden services on Tor and I2P

  4. Running Bitcoin Core on a Raspberry Pi

    How to set up a full Bitcoin node on a Raspberry Pi 4, using the command line.

  5. Bevis-på-arbeid er essensielt

    En manglende forståelse av bevis-på-arbeid er en manglende forståelse av Bitcoin.

  6. A simple SwiftUI view router

  7. Finding the user's language in iOS

  8. Bitcoin-blokkjedens bevis-på-arbeid er en desentralisert klokke

    Dette er en forklaring på nøkkelfunksjonen bevis-på-arbeid i Bitcoin-blokkjeden. Den fokuserer på den ene funksjonen av bevis-på-arbeid som er viktig og viser at andre funksjoner som ofte snakkes om, for eksempel sikkerhet, er sekundære bivirkninger. De er nyttige, men ikke avgjørende.