The Big Short: Michael Lewis
Very neat book. Good movie as well!
Monthly Archives: January 2016
Unravelling the Mysterious Block Chain Magic Number
If you have had the pleasure of delving into the block chain, you may have come across the term magic number. This is the first 4 bytes of every block in the block chain and is defined as: Network Magic value Sent over wire as main 0xD9B4BEF9 F9 BE B4 D9 testnet 0xDAB5BFFA FA BF… Read More »
How to manually calculate Base58Check encoding
There are lots of articles around how Bitcoin addresses are created. Most of the time you’ll be shown a few command lines to run and magically the results appear. For example, >> bitcoin-cli getnewaddress will output a new Bitcoin address in the command line of the Bitcoin-qt application but how does it work under the… Read More »
Bitcoin Step By Step: Michael Caughey
Very hands on with lots of screen shots. Unfortunate with lots of references to Mt Gox. 166 pages with good references. Readable in a few hours.
Setting up Confluence on Mac OSX 10.11 El Capitan
Getting Confluence 5.9.3 on my Mac this time was a little too easy. It took all of 5 minutes and left me wondering if I had missed something. Caveat: I had gone through the pain of installing Java when I installed JIRA so this helped a lot. If you haven’t installed JIRA, look at my… Read More »
Git tab autocomplete on OSX 10.11 El Capitan
In Ubuntu, this comes out of the box but in terminal on OSX a few extra steps are required to get this to work. It is a bit of a hassle figuring out what needs to be done, but once you know, it literally takes 10 seconds. Step 1: Download auto completion script: >> cd… Read More »
Bitcoin Internals: Chris Clark
Neat book for an overview to whet your appetite. 100 pages. Readable in a few hours.
Setting up JIRA on Mac OSX 10.11 El Capitan
Getting JIRA 7.0.5 on to my mac wasn’t as straight forward as I’d expected but I finally got there in the end. The first thing to note from the Atlassian website is: which was taken from https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/installing-jira-on-mac-os-x-191501161.html. These steps are what we will be following as well. If you are interested in what I had to… Read More »