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I have doubts about how to implement a GraphQL API while maintaining some abstractions. [*] = recommended reading [**] = required reading The GraphQL context In GraphQL you have nodes which you can traverse to get to list of nodes or to other single nodes. The idea is that with a query like: query {Read more

It takes very long until bitcoin-core has downloaded the whole block chain. So I decided to download the block chain files via a bittorrent published by this website: http://www.getbitcoinblockchain.com After the download was finished I noticed that the md5 checksums of the files from the torrent were different then of the files from bitcoin-core. WhyRead more

If I publicize a “request address” with the intention of allowing people to support my online efforts, am I risking my privacy? i.e. if many people send me Bitcoin via that address, ostensibly that leaves a visible chain of money going into that “account” (for lack of a better word). Even if I immediately transferRead more