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A collection of 3 posts

Generating Addresses in PostgreSQL

During my initial dirty-hack of the coindroids system for defcon/defcoin, we took a lazy step and just pre-populated an address table with a boatload of addresses generated outside the system. While this was great for preparing for a three day conference, it obviously isn't ideal for a real production

The Honeypot of Cryptocurrencies: DEFCOIN

As I spoke about in a previous post [https://www.genesisbloc.com/how-to-lose-your-ibm-bluemix-account/], I am fairly drawn to details about DEFCOIN [http://defcoin.org], the cryptocurrency set to make its major debut at DEF CON 22 [http://defcon.org/html/defcon-22/dc-22-index.html]. Under the hood, DEFCOIN is just another

Deploying an Electrum Buildpack to Heroku

Long story short, I had an idea for a project but no real time to make it happen. Rather than let my initial research go to waste, here are the steps I took to get the Electrum [https://electrum.org] Bitcoin client running on Heroku [https://heroku.com]. Warning## Storing