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Bitcoin

The Blockchain.info API and Python

| December 7, 2014
We decided to play around with the Blockchain.info API.  We wrote a small Python program that gets a random bitcoin address and prints the sent and received bitcoins,
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Altcoin

Cryptocurrency & Big Data

| December 7, 2014
Coin Market Capitalization can be seen on coinmarketcap.com for all cryptocurrencies.  All kinds of data can be observed : market price, capitalization, available supply and so on. It’s a
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Bitcoin

Arbitrage opportunity detector

| December 6, 2014
I found a neat little tool called bitcoin-arbitage thats downloads data from bitcoin exchanges and tries to find arbitage opportunities. The tool has a warning:  “Real trading bots
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Bitcoin

Generating an all in one wallet

| December 6, 2014
In this experimental tutorial we will investigate methods to create a set of wallets for cryptocoins. Each wallet is a receival address (you can receive coins on this
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Bitcoin

Getting a custom bitcoin address with vanitygen

| December 4, 2014
Vanitygen is a command-line vanity bitcoin address generator. As a user you enter the word you want to see in your bitcoin address, and the private key is
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Programming a simple bitcoin wallet

| December 3, 2014
Ever wanted to program your own bitcoin wallet?  This tutorial may help you.  We will use Python and Pybitcointools, Python library for Bitcoin signatures and transactions. We assume
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Bitcoin

Linux shell commands for Bitcoin part II

| December 2, 2014
If you have not read part 1 of this tutorial, see https://talkera.org/wpTalkera/linux-shell-commands-for-bitcoin/  I had a lot of replies and decided to write a follow up; Are you a sysadmin,
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