Configuring bitcoind for Debugging
This post is a reference for Bitcoin Core version 0.9.3 Configuring Bitcoin-RPC Prior to 0.9.0 there were a number of commands you could give bitcoind from the command line. Those commands exposed…
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Building Bitcoin Core with XCode
For this walkthrough I'll be using Bitcoin Core version 0.9.3, XCode 5.1.1 with the command line tools package installed, and Homebrew (http://brew.sh/). 1. Download the source code: git clone…
"Bitcoin is a techno tour de force" Reason 4: Decentralization
Bitcoin is decentralized and it is completely peer-to-peer. What this means is that it there is no central server running the network. Each computer on the network is called a node and on equal…
"Bitcoin is a techno tour de force" Reason 3: Secure Money Storage and Transactions
Every couple of years my credit card number gets stolen and I have to deal with canceling my card, getting a new one, and then reconfiguring my auto withdrawals, etc. Credit cards were invented…