Mining for Bitcoin Vanity Addresses with Elixir We previously worked through the process of generating a Bitcoin private address and translating it into a shareable public address using only the tools

Generating Bitcoin Private Keys and Public Addresses with Elixir Lately I’ve been working my way through Mastering Bitcoin, implementing as many of the examples in the book in Elixir as I can. I’ve been

Bitcoin's Base58Check in Pure Elixir An important piece of the process of transforming a Bitcoin private key into a public address, as outlined in the fantastic Mastering Bitcoin book, is the Base58Check

Learning to Crawl - Building a Bare Bones Web Crawler with Elixir   Originally posted on East5th. Check out the original post. I’ve been cooking up a side project recently that involves crawling through

Exploring the Bitcoin Blockchain with Elixir and Phoenix   Earlier this month we dove into the brave new world of Bitcoin development by writing an Elixir module that could communicate with a Bitcoin full

Controlling a Bitcoin Node with Elixir   I’ve been bit by the Bitcoin bug, and I’ve been bit hard. To satiate my thirst for knowledge, I’ve been reading the fantastic Mastering Bitcoin (affiliate link)

Detecting NoSQL Injection   The entire premise behind my latest project, Inject Detect, is that NoSQL Injection attacks can be detected in real-time as they’re being carried out against your application.

Distributed Systems Are Hard As I dive deeper and deeper into the world of Elixir and distributed systems in general, I’ve been falling deeper and deeper into a personal crisis. I’ve been slowly coming

Have You Tried Just Using a Function? Last month I read Saša Jurić’s To Spawn, or Not to Spawn article and its been lurking in my subconscious ever since. I was recently working on the command handler

GenServers and Memory Images - A Match Made in Heaven My current project, Inject Detect, is being built with Elixir and makes heavy use of Martin Fowler-style Memory Images. After working with this setup

GraphQL NoSQL Injection Through JSON Types One year ago today, I wrote an article discussing NoSQL Injection and GraphQL. I praised GraphQL for eradicating the entire possibility of NoSQL Injection. I

Behold the Power of GraphQL Hey Steemit, Imagine you’re build out a billing history page. You’ll want to show the current user’s basic account information along with the most recent charges made against