To buy and to hold
Most folks will just buy and hold a cryptocurrency (often referred to as HODLing), waiting for someone else to drive the price up so they can make money. When the…
.NET library for Zcash
My recently released Nerdbank.Zcash library is available on nuget.org and makes the Zcash cryptocurrency accessible to .NET apps. This library exposes all the APIs necessary to generate seed phrases and…
Keeping Zcash sync fast while supporting IVKs
Background into IVKs and internal addresses ZIP-32 describes how to derive accounts and keys for Sapling and Orchard pools. Among these are “internal keys” and “internal addresses”. Internal addresses are…
New NuGet packages for Zcash and other cryptocurrencies
I recently applied for a grant from the Zcash Foundation to fund a .NET library that would be able to parse and construct Zcash Unified Addresses. You can learn more…
Is Zcash really private?
Zcash privacy is best in class. Zcash was the first cryptocurrency to use Zero Knowledge proofs, which allows Zcash to totally hide all information about a transaction (and therefore your…
A proposal for “Crypto Wednesdays”
What are “Crypto Wednesdays”? Simply put, that on Wednesdays you only make purchases using cryptocurrency. Today, this severely limits where you can spend your money one day of the week.…
Hosting Zcash litewalletd via Zebra
In previous posts, I described how I hosted a zcashd node and added a litewalletd service on top of that. In this post, I describe why and how I switched…
How to host a Zcash litewalletd server via docker
In a prior post I documented how I used a docker-compose.yml file to make it easy to create and maintain a zcashd server. In this post, I add a litewalletd…
HODL Is Not Enough-Crypto Must Become an Economic Currency
If cryptocurrencies were only good as an investment, BTC might be enough by itself. But of course, the value many people see in cryptocurrency is to supplant fiat currency, including…
How to host a Zcash node via docker
I’ve been running my own zcashd node in a docker container for quite a while. But it has been hosted by my primary Windows machine. Today, I moved it to…