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In How to Use Coinkite’s Multi-Signature Wallets with Bitcore we explained how to create a multisignature wallet on Coinkite and cosign it with Bitcore. We used Coinkite’s offline tool to generate a key pair. Although it is easier to use Coinkite to generate the private key, it is a good security practice to generate it […]
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The Bitcoin community has been talking about multi-signature wallets for years. However, it is still very difficult for end users to use these wallets. Multi-signature wallets should allow copayers to communicate, but there is no standard protocol for seamless communication between copayers. The Bitcoin community should standardize the communication process. We’re going to learn to […]
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In Web Wallets Using Copay and Scalable Multi-Signature Web Wallets With Copay we explained how to multiplex Copay connections to form a single BitPay Insight server connection so you could easily scale an online web wallet service based on BitPay open source software. Copay has since been modified to use interesting new components: Bitcore Wallet Service (BWS) and […]
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As we saw in Web Wallets Using Copay the main drawback to using BitPay’s Copay as an online web wallet like Coinbase is its lack of scalability. Every Copay wallet establishes two connections to the Insight server. Our previous article includes code which eliminates one of the connections used to send and receive single-signature wallet […]
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Pure javascript Node.js modules are a charm to install with Node Package Manager (npm). However, you may occasionally have to install a module with Node.js native bindings. The installation is painless if you use Linux but if you are using Windows you will not forget the experience! Below is a step by step guide to […]