Random bits and thoughts
This is my endorsements for the Bitcoin Cash CHIPs targeted for activation on May 15th 2026. TLDR; I fully support the activation of the four proposed CHIPs by Jason Dreyzehner. Bitwise operators Link Reactivation of old op codes. This is a no-brainier. Fully endorse. Loops Link One of the exciting building blocks for Bitcoin Cash… Read More
Some time ago I stumbled upon the be.cash project from Tobias Ruck that demonstrates a new technology for a completely offline wallet that can communicate directly to a Point-of-Sale ( PoS ) system to produce a bitcoin cash transaction based on Bitcoin Cash smart contracts.I recognized that the technology was novel and kind of neat but I… Read More
This is a follow-up post to the previous BIP-70 ideas I had a while back. I think I have come to the conclusion of what the easiest way forward should be but I do not really know how to formally standardize it. The original BIP has a section about extensibility: [ ] Implementations that need to… Read More
A couple of weeks ago I took a deep dive into the Bitcoin Payment Protocol, aka BIP-70. The reason behind doing that was that I tried to make a payment to a BitPay merchant using the Android version of Electron Cash and it actually failed, which required a few e-mails back and forth to BitPay… Read More
The end of this month marks the 10 year celebration of a magnificent invention that I know will play a major role in our future society. On October 31st 2008 the still unknown pseudonymous entity Satoshi Nakamoto sent an email to unveil the first permissionless, censorship resistant and amazing cryptocurrency which he/she/they named Bitcoin. During… Read More
As of August 2015 Google has started to push monthly security patches for their Nexus phones and they have committed to do this for all their Android devices three years after launch. I am a Nexus user myself since a few months back when I bought a LG Nexus 5X and I really like the… Read More
One of the underestimated features of git is the ability to sign each commit and tag using a GPG key and an introduction to how it is done can be read in the git documentation. Unfortunatley I don t see this feature being used much when looking at various projects at GitHub but I would really… Read More
Today Facebook (hereby abbreviated as just FB) announced their Reactions system so people can express more emotions on a FB post then the simplistic Like . As always when FB makes changes that people can see and needs to get used to there will be global headlines and everyone will say it s either the best thing… Read More
This is a follow up to my Do not use libspotify! post. Directly after I published my libspotify experience on this blog I tweeted to SpotifyPlatform @SpotifyPlatform After doing some development using libspotify I would like to share my experience with you https://t.co/2DhWrdzjSA #spotify Jonas Lundqvist (@jonaslundqvist) May 6, 2015 Honestly didn t expect any… Read More
For quite some time I have felt the urge to do something with libspotify. In my living room I am using the kodi plugin Spotlight to play Spotify music on my stereo from my Raspberry Pi. I wrote a small patch to enable the last.fm scrobbling functionality that libspotify has integrated since I, for some… Read More