Category: Cryptocurrency

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Bitcoin Cash (BCC/BCH) fork was controversial and many expected it to quickly die, which is why Coinbase announced ahead of the fork that customers would not have access to their Bitcoin Cash…