tl;dr Reusing bitcoin addresses has both security and privacy consequences and should be avoided, especially since services and tools that don’t reuse addresses are available and even easy to use. First what do we mean by “address re-use”? In general we mean sending, ever,… Read More
Monthly archives of “April 2014”
When you can and can’t rely on 0 confirmations
The Bitcoin community has been hit with a wide range of security related news lately: first CVE-2014-0160 aka ‘Heartbleed’ , a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. The Bitcoin core team has issued an update of the Bitcoin software and an alert… Read More
iOS, Bitcoin and qr codes
At GreenAddress, to support the Android platform (and soon more) we use Cordova , a framework that allows to target multiple platforms with one code base and in theory (and in our case I believe in practice too) increase reuse and reduce rewrites. Unfortunately, even though… Read More
‘White paper’ and other updates
First post on our simple blog. 🙂 My name is Lawrence Nahum, I’m the founder of GreenAddress. Here’s my LinkedIn profile: I have only been interested first and then involved in Bitcoin for a bit more than the last two years, but it feels like… Read More