Previous week shocked the crypto space with two dramatic but history proven to happen events – FTX rug and BlockFi suspending disabling withdrawals. The funny thing is that not so long ago we wrote an article Bitcoin vs Crypto – POS challenge. where we described that so far crypto mostly brought various scams to the […]
In this article we will learn what is Bitcoin transaction ID (or also called hash) and how to find it in your Electrum wallet. What is transaction id Transaction ID or hash is a unique alphanumeric identifier, which is assigned to every Bitcoin transaction and kept in the blockchain. This identifier is publicly available and […]
In 2011 we first started to provide hosting service under different brand name. We did not call it anonymous hosting back then, but rather privacy oriented web hosting. In 2011 Bitcoin had been in existence for 2 years already. It was not widespread, it was not accepted by merchants besides one dark web market place […]
Sometime we can hear that Bitcoin payments are not really anonymous. Ok, let’s try to test this statement and try to find out as much information as possible about some random transaction. One should not take this test very serious because resources and knowledge we have cannot be compared with some intelligence office. The experiment […]
We have been in Bitcoin space for quite some time to notice same things happen all over again. Starting from “Bitcoin is backed by nothing”, “Bitcoin is a pyramid scheme”, “Bitcoin is a bubble” to finally now “Bitcoin damages the environment”. All this is done with one single purpose to deface the Bitcoin and give […]
Internet was invented on January 1st, 1983. The number of websites increased to 130 in 1993. In 2001 only 7% of Internet users had broadband connection, majority of people did not have Internet and there were no online payments at all! 2011 – 555 million websites. 2022 – 2 billion websites, online payments have 45% […]
This is a quick tip on how to understand Bitcoin transaction summary. If you take a Bitcoin transaction ID, it can be difficult for a newbie to find out transaction value, sender and the receiving party – the things which are obvious when you look into transactions of your credit card, for example. In Bitcoin […]
In our previous article we have installed our Bitcoin payment gateway using BTCPayServer. If you missed that article, we recommend to get familiar with Part 1 before you proceed to Part 2. So, in this article, we will: Configure our first store Setup Bitcoin Wallet Enable Altcoins via SideShift Create a Payment request (to verify […]
[Update 08/16/2022: Both parts merged] In this article we will cover how to run your own Bitcoin payment gateway and accept Bitcoin payments on your website directly. There are numerous Bitcoin processing companies, but if you are a true fan of Bitcoin (or some other cryptocurrency) you would love an idea of running your own […]