Hi All, Some time ago I decided to use Exodus Wallet to store some of my crypto (luckily, only some). The Exodus UI sure looked nice, so I assumed (incorrectly) that the back-end was probably well-written and the company respectable. Since January 2021, I discovered that not only can I…

Some time ago, I wrote an article promoting a mechanism to reward developers of cryptocurrencies alongside the miners. Some time later, Craig Wright (who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin) wrote a disparaging rebuke indirectly implying I’m a “techno-communist”. Since his article doesn’t allow responses, I’ve responded…

Spans are special structs in .NET Core designed to provide pointer-like constructs in safe, managed contexts. This allows array and buffer manipulation similar to how how they’re done in C++, C and Pascal and with comparable performance. Arrays implicitly casts to spans byte[] byteArr = …; // implicit cast ReadOnlySpan<byte> span…

I am writing this to publicly warn crypto-users about disturbing new behavior from Bittrex, one that’s oddly reminiscent of Mt Gox before they collapsed. Bittrex have decided to freeze my 2-year long account despite relatively minor trading activity and being a fully-verified and KYC’d user.