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 grows, and the main entry gate for the crowd is crypto exchanges. These trading platforms allow anybody
One of the largest Bitcoin payment providers, BitPay, has been under fire from Bitcoiners for quite a while. The community called for a boycott, which was smartly used by developer Nicolas Dorier to his advantage. Nicolas has created an open-source and self-hosted BitPay-compatible payment gateway called BTCPayServer, which has been
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 is storing the keys on a paper wallet. The good news is, Pavol Rusnak from
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 shitforks, however, are considered an outright attack on its privacy and namely ring signatures (1 out of
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 part in the Davos summit in Switzerland, and Bitcoin was the hot topic. While Bitcoin remains relatively