Richi's blog

Category: BitCoin

  • Charging electric vehicles

    First experience In a month of driving the Tesla, I collected some experiences but I feel I’m still a newbie. Charging is obviously very different from fueling a car. I gathered some information before buying the car, but it turned out I still had some misconceptions. The first thing I realized on the day after […]

  • Buying a Tesla with Bitcoin

    The first car that I bought at age twenty was dirt cheap, and didn’t last for more than two years. Then followed some Rover cars that were better, but also didn’t last very long. I was always the last one to own a car before it was no longer economic to fix it. After a […]

  • Hackthevalley Hackathon 2017 Baar

    Motivation After the good experience last year at the six fintech hackathon, I was trilled to go to hack the valley which is even closer geographically and whose subject is even closer to Bitcoin. My goal was to gain experience with ethereum. So far I only completed the tutorials. I found the technology very interesting, […]

  • Electrum 2.7 with better multisig hardware wallet support and Ledger Nano S

    Electrum has been my favorite Bitoin wallet software for a very long time. The reason I had a look at it initially was because there was a debian package. Only when Trezor hardware wallet support was added and was not yet released, I downloaded the sources. It is written in Python. I work with python […]

  • My new notebook

    Last week I finally received my new notebook. It was a long journey, but it was worth it. If you didn’t follow my blog, you can read about it here, here and here. Delivery It was delivered in two pieces. The first box contained the notebook, and was delivered normally. The second box contained the […]

  • Decentralized websites and more

    “Cool idea, but to be of any use, it would need more functionality and more content” was my impression when I first looked into zeronet. Back then static web pages were all there was, and no UI support for any managing tasks. The next time I checked, probably more than half a year later, it […]

  • Worst customer experience ever

    The best notebook ever I blogged about my attempts to buy a decent notebook here before. But let’s recap quickly. In the fall of 2013 I bought a Dell XPS13 Developer edition. When Dell shortly thereafter announced that they now accept BitCoin, I had the feeling I missed out on that opportunity. Nevertheless, it was […]

  • The legacy banks in Switzerland

    Transaction costs I have a separate bank account for my tandem flying hobby at the local bank where I live. I didn’t want a plastic card for it, and setting up online banking turned out to be too complicated. So I pay a CHF 3.00 fee for every withdrawal at the counter. That is, if […]

  • Why I still have no new notebook

    It has been more than 14 months since my XPS 13DE notebook was stolen. Ever since, I was on the hunt for a replacement. I have just some simple requirements that seem so difficult to meet: Linux pre-installed Payment in BitCoin Swiss German Keyboard with back light Ultrabook (slim and powerful) The natural choice would […]

  • A new era for eCommerce

    OpenBazaar went live a short time ago. Even if it still has some rough edges, it offers the best user experience ever for buying or selling something on the internet. I installed the earlier beta versions last year with great interest. But the developers decided that the core of it was not good enough, and […]