Cryptocurrency Tutorials

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    How to Mine Ethereum

    Note: I expect a large number of people to object to cryptocurrency mining's energy use and I totally understand. Hell, I agree. A few notes to consider: first, this will soon be remedied by Ethereum switching to proof os stake. Second, much...

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    Detect Cryptocurrency by Wallet Address

    I’ve always been a massive advocate of cryptocurrency. I love the technology, the ease of use, and the freedom that cryptocurrencies bring to the world. Despite my love of crypto, I know that adoption will take a long time and that the state of crypto...

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    Realtime Cryptocurrency Rates API with coinlayer

    Last year when cryptocurrencies were gaining massively in value each month, I badly wanted to create a personal web project which would let me quickly buy and sell crypto outside of brokers like Coinbase; the problem I ran into was not having a reliable API...

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    How to Recover Bitcoin Gold

    Every fork of Bitcoin brings uncertainty.  Uncertainty of value change, long term commitment of the fork, and how value may fluctuate over time.  For us Bitcoin owners, one of the big challenges if figuring out how to claim and recover the forked coin.  Remember that when...

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    Manage Bitcoin with the Coinbase API

    One of my biggest recent regrets was not pouring money into bitcoin when Kim Dotcom said we should; this was approximately 18 months ago when the bitcoin value was $170.  Today bitcoin value has topped $1000 which is why I'm kicking myself so hard.  I buy my bitcoin...

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    Get Ethereum Value from Command Line

    Last year I got big into Bitcoin; today I own a few dozen bitcoin and am loving my return.  Recently I've been hearing big things about Ethereum, another cryptocurrency.  Ethereum is in its infancy and has hit some troublesome times recently due to a hack but...

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    Get Bitcoin Value with curl or Node.js

    Last year I started dabbling in bitcoin.  Of course I was immediately cocky as bitcoin value went up 20% as soon as I bought it, then was humbled as bitcoin's value tumbled down 50%.  From boathouse to outhouse.  From caviar to ramen noodles.  It was brutal. Anyways, I was...