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How to setup Umbrel to work with an existing bitcoind and lnd

Recently, I stumbled upon a fancy looking Umbrel OS that lets you run a Bitcoin and a Lightning Network node on your dedicated machine without hassle. If that is what you're looking for,

security

How to Protect your Funds from the Hacks on Crypto Exchanges

The crypto world slowly but steadily paves its way into the mainstream. Banks cooperate with Bitcoin exchanges, governments are moving to regulate the market. The number of people who want to get involved

bitcoin

How to Setup BTC and Lightning Payment Gateway with BTCPayServer on Linux [Manual Install]

One of the largest Bitcoin payment providers BitPay has been under the fire from Bitcoiners for quite a while. The community called for a boycott which was smartly used by a developer Nicolas

trezor

How to Setup Monero Wallet with Trezor Model T ahead of Schedule

While Monero is a leading cryptocurrency when it comes to privacy, safe storage of private keys is where it lacks. If you aren't a big fan of Ledger like me, your only option

monero

How to Protect your Privacy when Splitting and Claiming Monero Shitforks

Ever since Bcash split from Bitcoin in August 2017, the fork craziness took place and there are currently at least 10 Bitcoin shitforks that I know of. Monero suffered the same fate. Monero

bitcoin

Why Regulating Bitcoin Will Never Work

With Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies surging in value over the latter part of 2017, governments and central banks have issued warnings to a potential bubble forming. The same governments and banks recently took

monero

How to Install and Set up Full Monero Node on Linux

With the rise of cryptocurrencies, financial privacy has become a hot topic. Monero is currently the best in the field thanks to the fairly big anonymity set, mandatory privacy for all transactions,

trezor

How to Create and Use a Bitcoin Multi-signature wallet with Electrum and Trezor

Bitcoin supports scripting since the day one which gives it capabilities beyond just spending outputs in a "standard" way. One of such use cases is a multi-signature wallet. It allows to

lightning

How to Run Lightning's Zap Wallet on Bitcoin Mainnet Ahead of Schedule

Zap Wallet for Lightning Network is one of the most beautiful software ever written for Bitcoin. The bummer is, it isn't officially available for Bitcoin mainnet yet. Developers are busy fixing bugs

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