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whitepaper - i dont usually write them

I usually just write code, but occasionally I need to describe the code so that people can understand the tech a bit better. Today was such an occasion. Soon it...

iguana status - 1 hour BTC sync, from scratch

After a bug was reported about the bitcoin sync stalling, I found a couple of system issues and fixed them. I also made a couple of shell scripts that loop on i...

iguana status - debugging for GUI, block explorer and a bit of basilisk network topology

Found and fixed a few bugs that was destabilizing the GUI. basically the GUI should reflect the state of the iguanacore, but it was able to get out of sync, so ...

Politics of bitcoin

Like it or not bitcoin is mired in a non-technical morass. I used to feel totally powerless to do anything about it, until I was invited to participate in the B...

iguana status - multicoin support

iguana is a full bitcoin node. one of the things that makes it special is that I have abstracted out all the differences between the various bitcoin compatibles...

1000 STEEM bounty - need C code to create, sign and submit a multisig transaction locally for iguana atomic swap

In iguana, atomic cross chain swaps are supported, but a coin has to support at a minimum a 2of2 multisig to an arbitrarily specified pair of secp256 pubkeys. h...

iguana status - 20x reduction in RAM required for BTC node! now 4GB RAM systems should be enough

As you know a full bitcoin node requires a monster machine as the blockchain is almost 75GB. I was battling against startup time to get to realtime sync for bit...

iguana status - another day, another 3 coins added UNO, MZC, ZEC and bug fixes, starting on basilisk debugging

Today got a pull request with 3 more coins UNO, MZC and ZEC. UNO took 8 minutes to sync due to only having 1 valid peer and it also crashed as it seems to have ...

Liquidity rewards - will they ever come back? Is it coincidence that since they were suspended price is in freefall?

I have a fair amount of STEEM gathering dust in my taker market maker account... It would be nice to get some indication whether the liquidity awards will be co...

iguana status - bug fixing

I finished revamping the realtime processing and connected the back end to the historical bundles, the front end to the bitcoin rpc. amazingly it just started w...

iguana status: realtime mode in debugging, 3 new coins supported (actually only 2 coins, third has some issues)

I have coded most of what is needed to support the realtime mode as described previously. Now just need to call the new RT functions, which is a bit of a mess a...

the first million is always the hardest - good advice is to grab it, which a lot of the whales are doing and this helps STEEM long term

There is a lot of whale power down inventory that is hitting the markets and this creates a downward pressure on the price. Considering the rapid growth in user...

google announces discontinuation of chrome apps, unless it is on chrome OS - community response needed!

http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/19/12555052/google-shutting-down-chrome-apps It seems google isnt making enough profits and they need to boost it by not spending...

bitcoin spinoff fork - how to make a clean fork without any replay attack and no blockchain visible changes

You probably know about the ETC fork of ETH. I dont want to talk about the why or the politics of it, just the technical aspect of the replay attack. If a spino...

RT block handling proposal - iguanacore

As I wait for the slow sync to finish, I think I came up with a clean solution for the RT block handling. The problem as discussed before is transitioning from ...

Bitcoin blockchain got so big, I ran out of disk space... Crazy reptilian solution

I have a much larger partition that can hold all the files and more, so I started a cp -R That copies recursively all the files using the built in operating sys...

Swiscoin "rep" threatens me with lawsuit - because I said that they stole a SuperNET graphic and are using it on their site!

https://steemit.com/scam/@jl777/avoid-swiscoin-i-was-notified-of-a-new-top-coin-called-swiscoin-today-actually-i-was-asked-how-i-was-involved-with-it The above ...

300 BTC open market purchase of STEEM, spikes price to .00324

A few days ago I made a post saying the week long decline was ended and we would likely go into a trading range with a ceiling of .004 that would be hard to get...

iguana status - debugging by rewriting

Sometimes the code just has too many special cases, strange behavior and outright bugs and even if all the identified issues are solved, you end up with somethi...