When Nakamoto.com launched on the 3rd of last month, it was marketed as a blog aimed at promoting Bitcoin and discussion around Bitcoin-related topics. It was really a way to market Bitcoin affinity scams under the cloak of the label “pro-Bitcoin”. The blog featured many altcoin founders, who are only Read more…
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s Square Crypto has announced that they will be developing a Software Development Kit (SDK) for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network layer 2 scaling solution. A software development kit is a standardized set of tools for developers that allows them to easily build projects for a specific software framework. Read more…
The first meeting of the Bitcoin group of Villamaria, Caldas, Colombia It’s been a while since I have posted to my blog. However, this post, will be very short and sweet. I am starting a Bitcoin Meetup in Villamaria, Caldas, in Colombia’s famous Eje Cafetero. We will have weekly meetings, Read more…
The Bisq DAO is one of the most ambitious and exciting projects in Bitcoin. For those who have never used Bisq, it’s an open source, decentralized cryptocurrency exchange, designed for peer to peer trading which protects user privacy and security. For the past 3 years, Bisq has been used to Read more…
A few days ago, I had a chance to interview Jeff Vandrew Jr. the creator of LibrePatron. LibrePatron is a self-hosted, censorship-resistant, Patreon alternative, that was created as a response to Patreon’s recent move to de-platform users in a coordinated social media censorship effort, along with Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Apple, Read more…
This is part 3 in a series on BTCPay server. Part1Part2 In part one of our series we interviewed Pavlenex, of Bitcoinshirt.co, about his first-hand experience with BTCPay, as an e-commerce store owner, and project contributor. In part two we delved deeper into BTCPay server itself and gave you the Read more…
This post is part 2 in a series on BTCPay Server. Here is Part 1 In part 1, we spoke with Pavlenex, of Bitcoinshirt.co, who was kind enough to detail his first-hand experience using BTCPay Server for his Bitcoin T-shirt business. In this article, we will be taking a look Read more…
This article was co-written with Pavlenex, of Bitcoinshirt.co. There has been a ton of excitement around highly anticipated Bitcoin projects like the Lightning Network, and Wasabi wallet, which address long-standing issues with scalability and fungibility. Another project that has been quietly gaining steam has been BTCPay Server. BTCPay is one Read more…
Right after the holiday season, I had a chance to catch up with Nopara73 (Adam Ficsor), the legendary creator of Wasabi wallet. Wasabi is the most advanced Bitcoin wallet, which integrates many privacy and fungibility features into the wallet itself. Nopara73 has managed to make an easy to use app, Read more…
Medium suspended my account so here is a PDF version of this post that you can download. In the last few years, many people have realized that Bitcoin is not anonymous, and some of them have realized it with dire, life-destroying consequences. Bitcoin is pseudonymous and some have learned this Read more…