For almost two years I have been working with Christopher Allen on a series of research projects for his nonprofit Blockchain Commons. My work for Blockchain Commons has included research papers and open source code written in C, C++, Mathematica, and Swift. Code I’ve written for the project is now running on iOS, Unix, and ...
Read MoreAnnouncing Open Source Bitcoin Framework for iOS
Building on Libbitcoin Today I’m announcing the availability of the open source Bitcoin framework for iOS. I have been working with Blockchain Commons on wallet apps for iOS that will support airgapped transaction signing and BTCR Decentralized Identity (DID). As part of this effort we chose to build on the open source libbitcoin library. From ...
Read MoreDeveloper Notes: Setting up a Bitcoin Node on AWS
Recently I started doing some Bitcoin-related work, and needed to set up a Bitcoin node running the Testnet. For anyone interested, below is a step-by-step summary of what I did to get it running. These notes assume some experience with AWS, Linux, and Bitcoin. The basic flow is adapted from chapter 2 of the open-source ...
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