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 will be announced what it is for. I also

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 iguana, so even if it crashes, it just resumes.

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 commands to a locked wallet were being sent,

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 BTCfork project. It is one thing to complain

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. Well, at least I tried to (please ignore

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. the above shows how to sign a transaction,

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 bitcoin and on the non-SSD server it was taking

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 changed to merged mining along the way. Still

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 coming back anytime soon. To my mind, it is

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 working! A few bugs, not surprising considering

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 as there was no formal interface internally,

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 userbase and the many internet celebrities that

It seems google isnt making enough profits and they need to boost it by not spending money supporting any OS that is not their own. While it might be a strategic move on the part of google, this is potentially

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 spinoff of a coin is created, it inherits the

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 using one set of data files to another,

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 system (debian VPS) So far, nothing that crazy.

The above is the warning I gave about swiscoin. In the comments you will see how a swiscoin advocate is attempting to silence me with threats of lawsuits. I think I will need a legal defense fund! James

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 past. After the initial gains, when the

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 something that is barely working properly and if