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Sjors / magic.sh
Created May 7, 2019 18:32
Install Bitcoin Core from Gitian
sudo tar -xzvf /home/gitian/bitcoin-binaries/0.18.0/bitcoin-0.18.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz -C /usr/local --strip 1
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Sjors / README.md
Created May 6, 2019 13:09
LibrePatron without Docker (Ubuntu)

Warning: this is highly experimental

It assumes you're already running BTCPay Server somehwere.

Create a user and group:

sudo adduser patron --disabled-password
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Sjors / bitcoin.conf
Created August 26, 2018 09:09
Bitcoin Core remote dev
testnet=1
[main]
[test]
server=1
rpcpassword=bitcoin
rpcuser=bitcoin
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Sjors / 2018-03 Code Block London.md
Last active March 24, 2018 13:13
Anatomy of a bitcoin transaction

footer: 2018-03-24 - Code Block London - [email protected] - @provoost on Twitter slidenumbers: true autoscale: false

Bitcoin's Moving Parts

  • Coins
  • Digital signatures
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Sjors / fetch_and_sign.sh
Last active April 10, 2021 21:24
Fetches gitian assert files from VM and signs them on host machine
#!/bin/sh
SIGNED_BINARIES=0
while getopts ":n:v:s" opt; do
case $opt in
n)
NAME=$OPTARG
;;
v)
VERSION=$OPTARG
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Sjors / steps.md
Created January 4, 2018 11:05
Convert (BitPay) BIP-70 payment request protocol buffer to JSON

Create payment request using their demo site. Obtain URL from QR code, e.g. on OSX using QR Journal.

EC2 settings

  • Instance type: t2.xlarge
  • vCPUs: 4
  • Memory (GiB): 16
  • General Purpose SSD (GP2): 200 GB
  • Ubuntu
  • Running in eu-central-1b (Frankfurt)

Hint: to make your life easier and allow login with a simple ssh btc-0.14, edit ~/.ssh/config:

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Sjors / .gitignore
Last active September 8, 2022 03:15
node_modules
*.pdf
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Sjors / Makefile
Last active August 29, 2015 14:02
Makefile to generate iOs icons from an SVG.
resolutions := 58 76 80 120 152
all_FILES := $(foreach resolution, $(resolutions), icon-$(resolution).png)
all: $(all_FILES)
icon-%.png: icon-itunes-connect-1024.png
convert $< -resize $*x$* $@
icon-itunes-connect-1024.png: icon.svg
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Sjors / bitcoin-pay.rb
Last active April 9, 2024 16:50
This script demonstrates how a bitcoin transaction is created and signed. Just pass in your own address and private key and it will prepare a transaction for you. You can then copy & paste that transaction into a webservice like Blockchain to send it. I wrote this mostly to understand better how it works. I sometimes had to "cheat" and look at t…
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'open-uri'
require 'JSON'
require 'digest/sha2'
require 'pry'
require 'bigdecimal'
require 'bitcoin' # Because I need to cheat every now and then
# Usage:
# gem install pry json ffi ruby-bitcoin