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 ...
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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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