With the price of bitcoin changing like the weather, it makes sense to be notified immediately of any changes. How cool will it be, if the value of bitcoin in USD can be quickly displayed in realtime? Lets make a Bitcoin Value Updater gadget with the BOLT IOT CLOUD. More info
In this tutorial we will learn how to get a current Bitcoin price in USD and EUR using a ESP32 and Visuino. More info
To get real-time bitcoin data, I used an api provided by OKex, which is a large crypto currency exchange. Then I used python to calculate my gain and loss based on the streaming data. I set my target gain and loss to 5% everyday, which means more lights are on, my investment is closer to…
We are going to take advantage of one of the most known real-life examples in order to introduce the concept of blockchain, its characteristics and its practical usefulness, also explaining how to mine Bitcoins using an essential hardware platform such as Raspberry Pi. In today’s society, everything evolves really fast: lifestyle, communication… Even…
Sponsored post by ILCoin In the past 10 years, many blockchain companies were working on the projects, arming their systems with decentralized, secure and anonymizing functionalities. And with a desire to resolve current problems, many of them didn’t think about upcoming future needs. That created a set of unsolved issues and bottlenecks that…
Matthias Steinig, a German developer whose focus seems to be on the development of Lightning Network-enabled technologies to serve consumers, has created a new mechanism that allows e-bikes to be rented in exchange for payments on the bitcoin Lightning Network. The bike has a device that controls the flow of electricity depending on the payment that was made using the Lightning…
BitBarista is an autonomous coffee machine, designed to function with the minimum of human supervision. Physically, it is a Delonghi home coffee machine under the control of a Raspberry Pi. Built by a team at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Design Informatics, the BitBarista coffee machine accepts Bitcoin for the coffee. Further, it can…
This project surely deserves more traction as it combines open source electronics and crypto-currencies related security. I would definitely seen these problems solved.. in Open source! The new security PRISMcide solution consists of “open source” smart cards and of a small “open hardware” portable player that can be used with Android and iOS smartphones and tablets via…
Our friends at Openpicus just powered a super fast hack to create an Open Source Hardware powered ATM for Bitcoin! First in Italy. How it works? A banknote reader engine had to be interfaced to Flyport. The problem was that no documentation was provided so we spent 4 hours sniffing the protocol. At the end it…
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