Whoa! I remember the first time I swapped Bitcoin for Litecoin without an exchange. It felt like trading baseball cards in the schoolyard, only the stakes were higher and the adults were watching. My instinct said that decentralized swaps would always be clunky. Actually, wait—let me rephrase that: at first I thought they’d be unusable, […]

Okay, so check this out—running a full node and thinking about mining are related, but they aren’t the same job. Wow! For folks who’ve already operated wallets and sync’d chains, there’s a surprising number of tradeoffs. My instinct said this would be straightforward. Hmm… it wasn’t. At first glance, a full node is just about […]