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Bitcoin is NOT Software

There are many misconceptions out there about what Bitcoin is. If you ask random people on the street you may get responses such as "magic internet money", "a d...

Bitcoin: Protocol, not Software

There are many misconceptions out there about what Bitcoin is. If you ask random people on the street you may get responses such as "magic internet money", "a d...

BitBanged SPI in Go, An Explanation

I’m going to focus mostly on some design decisions and how I went about writing an SPI interface using Go on a Raspberry Pi. I assume my readers have a basic un...

Bitcoin? Blockchain? Buzzword Bingo

Scott Adams, Dilbert I walked into a meeting at an old job to discuss the viability of a new feature to be added to our software product. After discussing how t...

Political Party? I'm the Pooper

Political parties are the reason that two reasonable, nice, well intentioned individuals can think one another are either idiotic, evil, or both. https://medium...

Bitcoin vs Banks

Being involved in the Bitcoin world is very exciting. Price swings of 20% in a single day can be a terrifying, but I need someway to get my heart rate up and it...

(Very) Basic Elliptic Curve Cryptography

This is going to be a basic introduction to elliptic curve cryptography. I will assume most of my audience is here to gain an understanding of why ECC is an eff...