So Bitcoin’s price action has you interested – Or my constant drum beating is finally making you listen, and you want to know more…

So as I write this blog posting, it’s the Sunday evening before Christmas, 2020 and Bitcoin is at a new all-time high. The price has been bouncing around $23,000 – $24,000 for the last couple of days and the expectation that we haven’t seen anything yet is shared by many Bitcoiners. If you are reading […]

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 Nextjtag trick for monitoring LTCs BCU 1525 / CVP 13

For the BCU: nextjtag -a -m -e input_power,aux_12v_voltage,aux_12v_current,pex_12v_voltage,pex_12v_current,aux_temp0,aux_temp1,aux_temp2,vr_pwr_stage_temp0,vr_pwr_stage_temp1,vccint,fpga_temp,vr_ctrl_temp | sed ‘s/\[[^]]*\] //g’ | sort | sed -e ‘/^U/d’ -e ‘/BMC\ Setup/d’ -e ‘s/Extended Sensors: /Extended Sensors:\n/g’ -e ‘/^Device/s/Device./\n&/g’ -e ‘s/, aux_12v_voltage/\naux_12v_voltage/g’ -e ‘s/, pex_12v_voltage/\npex_12v_voltage/g’ -e ‘s/, aux_temp0/\naux_temp0/g’ -e ‘s/, vr_pwr_stage_temp0/\nvr_pwr_stage_temp0/g’ -e ‘s/, vccint/\nvccint/g’ -e ‘s/, fpga_temp/\nfpga_temp/g’ -e ‘s/, vr_ctrl_temp/\nvr_ctrl_temp/g’ | sed ‘1d’ For the CVP: […]

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 Swap Emission

Due to the explosion in awareness of the cryptocurrency project I am involved in that is called Swap, I am uploading an excel document that lists our coin emission per day. This is an easy way to see how our non-linear emission curves work and why the sooner you get involved with the project, the […]

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 How to run your own Swap node

There are various reasons for running your own node for Swap, or for any other crypto project you are interested in for that matter. Those reasons range from supporting the network and increasing decentralization to protecting yourself from some forms of attack vectors designed to steal your assets. I can be up front and honest […]

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 Quiet before the storm

I’ve been super busy as of late and haven’t been able to push out updates like I had intended in the beginning.  The last several months have seen my knowledge grow by leaps and bounds but I still feel like I haven’t even hit my teens yet for a measure of comparison.  I am now […]

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