Solving a 2FA (2 Factor Authentication) nightmare involving Circle.com and Bitcoin

The real price of Bitcoin in Bolivares Fuertes: BitVen.com

I’ve just released a tool for Venezuelans looking to know what the ACTUAL price of Bitcoin is in Bolivares Fuertes, it’s called BitVen.com Most price tickers out there don’t know about Venezuela’s currency control reality and they post the Bitcoin price using the Government’s official dollar exchange rate, the problem is, that it’s really hard […]

Why it only took me less than 2 minutes to believe in Bitcoin

Seeing is believing. I don’t care what Warren Buffet or all the Bitcoin nay sayers think, I care about how real, useful and freeing Bitcoin is today even in its infancy. Just stare at any random minute of Blockchain transactions in realtime and you will see that Bitcoin is not something that will happen, it’s […]

How many lines of code are there inside Bitcoin-Core client?

According to cloc this is the line count breakdown, 87% of the project is all C/C++ header files and code. http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.60 T=7.23 s (72.2 files/s, 43792.9 lines/s) ——————————————————————————- Language files blank comment code ——————————————————————————- C++ 244 9985 6246 211500 C/C++ Header 188 5346 4617 35399 Bourne Shell 26 2576 2571 20090 make 12 […]

Setting up Eclipse as your IDE for Bitcoin C++ development on MacOSX.

If you are a Java developer used to the productivity levels achieved by working with eclipse’s code navigation, code completion and refactoring tools, it’s worth your time staying in eclipse for any sort of C++ development. This post refers specifically to getting your eclipse environment to work with a particular C++ Open Source project, The […]

How to actually build bitcoin on Mac OSX 10.9.1

First of all, if you have Macports, do yourself a favor and get rid of it. Then make sure you have Homebrew installed and all the packages installed by it up to date. 1. Let’s install all the dependencies for Bitcoin hacking. brew install autoconf automake berkeley-db4 boost miniupnpc openssl pkg-config protobuf qt libtool 2. […]

Why buying Bitcoin in 2013 is a no brainer

I think the BitCoin market cap will grow AT LEAST ten fold in 2014 as only a mere 10% of the internet’s b2c trade exponentially shifts into Bitcoin as the internet’s de-facto currency thanks to it’s convenience and optional low transaction fees. “Global business-to-consumer e-commerce sales will pass the 1 trillion euro ($1.25 trillion) mark […]

Sending money: Banks vs BitCoin

So I’m in desperate need to send money to my family in Venezuela this week, and sadly they’ve still not adopted (or even heard off, much less understood bitcoin yet) and I’ve been forced to wire some money to an account in Perú to a friend of the family. I cannot send the money directly […]

How to import a backed up wallet in Bitcoin-Qt

The Bitcoin-Qt client has an export feature, but not an import feature, importing a wallet is a bit of a manual process and it can be quite scary for the non-computer saavy since you need to do this kind of stuff because you got a new computer or your old one broke. First, close the […]

BitCoin essentials and must have bookmarks

BitCoin is probably the most exciting thing to happen to money since the history of… money, as off the shelf computer harware, software, cryptographic tools, and p2p internet technology have come together to create a currency that: – Doesn’t need a bank to be secure or to validate transactions, it’s decentralized. – Can be transfered […]