Running Bitcoin over Tor
Tor is a great service to promote privacy and censorship resistance. These goals align directly with the Bitcoin network.…
Weekly Ways to Earn Crypto: Lending BTC via BlockFi
Today's savings account rates are basically 0% in the traditional finance market. In contrast to that, we are seeing both centralized and decentralized marketplaces evolve to allow crypto to be borrowed and lent out at real market rates.…
Compiling a Bitcoin Node from Source on a Raspberry Pi
High Level Steps Install the latest Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit if you have more than 4 GB of RAM)Install some tools (pydf, htop, screen)Set up your USB drive and mount it automatically on rebootClone the Bitcoin sourceInstall build dependenciesBuild runtime dependencies from sourceRun ./autogen.shRun ./configure with the…
Saving Money by Running Bitcoin on a Raspberry Pi
I've been playing around with a Raspberry Pi and one question I wanted to answer was: How much electricity will I save by running the Raspberry Pi instead of my desktop computer?To answer this, I bought a cheap power meter that can be used when plugging in a device…
Installing Bitcoin Core 0.20.1 from source on Ubuntu Raspberry Pi
The latest release https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.20.1 Get the source $ git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git $ git checkout tags/v0.20.1Install dependencies The hardest part of building from source is getting all the dependencies set up properly. I get it wrong…
Weekly Ways to Earn Crypto: Selling Bitcoin Options
This series has one goal: To make money. In the pursuit of making money, however, there are two approaches. First, you can spend time (labor) to earn money by performing tasks for others. Second, you can utilize cash (capital) to allow it to earn for you. This second approach is…