Many new developers are jumping right into writing code, usually for those fat paychecks, without learning much about the history of Computer Science.
If you’re new to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, you may have heard the common phrase not your keys not your coins.
Choosing the right dependencies is a difficult task. Assuming the developer of an application is the best programmer in the world, the “best” thing to do would be to write the entire codebase alone.
While encryption does involve various methods of encoding data, the two are absolutely not interchangeable. In fact, if you get them mixed up it can result in serious data breaches and security vulnerabilities.
We all have hundreds of online accounts. Ideally, as many of those accounts as possible have unique passwords.
Bitcoin improvement proposal 32 is, in my opinion, one of the most important BIPs we have.
In the wake of the hearings about Facebook’s new Libra blockchain, it is more important than ever that we all understand the difference between trustworthy and trustless apps.
Quick answer: use crypto.randomBytes() for cryptographically secure randomness in Node.js. const { randomBytes } = await import("node:crypto"); const buf = randomBytes(256); console.