Most days of the week, I post a message on SideShift.ai internal Slack with a brief update on our business and the general crypto market/scene. Here’s what I included about Arthur Hayes’ September...

OpenTSDB is an open-source time series database. In this part we’ll install HBase and OpenTSDB with a minimal setup on an EC2 instance. Setting up the EC2 instance Set up an Amazon EC2 instance w...

I ordered the Ledger Wallet as soon as I heard about it on r/bitcoin. Ledger Wallet is a cheap alternative to the Trezor ($119), especially because I pre-ordered the Trezor for 1 BTC. Delivery was...

CoreOS is all the rage these days and I find myself having to reinvent a lot of patterns. At Justcoin we produce up to 7,500 new Bitcoin addresses for our customers every day. The key pool function...

At Justcoin Exchange we use a lot of Chef recipes to manage servers and deploy code. While chef has its advanteges, such as being very popular, it’s insanely slow. In this post I’ll investigate Doc...

There aren’t any easy-to.use tools for creating Stellar cold wallets yet, so I’ll do a walkthrough here. I’m doing this from a laptop with an installation of Ubuntu 14.04 (desktop image). The compu...

There’s nothing quite like showing up to work and reading that Jed McCaleb, the inventor of Ripple, has forked Ripple into a new project. His new project is called Stellar and has received a $3M lo...

A very long and detailed guide to purchasing and securing ether. Anyone with less than 10 years of programming experience should ask a friend for help as soon as they get stuck. Buying the ether ...