https://snyke.net/post/ Recent content in Posts on Christian Decker Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:31:56 -0400 https://snyke.net/post/migrating-to-jrockit/ Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:31:56 -0400 https://snyke.net/post/migrating-to-jrockit/ I’ve been bothered with the now famous PermGen Space error while developing a web application on a local jetty instance quite often, and I was hoping that the problem wouldn’t prove to be that serious once deployed on a tomcat server, but quite the opposite is the case. The problem happens when the JVM runs out of permanent generation heap space, which most of the time is due to classloaders not being correctly garbage collected. https://snyke.net/post/privacy-in-lightning/ Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0100 https://snyke.net/post/privacy-in-lightning/ A few days ago I was contacted by Rachel O’Leary from CoinDesk regarding an article she was writing about the privacy of Lightning payments compared to Bitcoin on-chain transactions: Will Lightning Help or Hurt Bitcoin Privacy?. These are very common questions, so I thought I might as well publish my raw answers. I’d like to preface this by saying that privacy is neither a binary, nor a linear thing. Privacy is a multi-facetted issue and comparing two systems is difficult, so a tradeoff may be sensible in one setting it may not be in another. https://snyke.net/post/blockchain-meetup-talk/ Tue, 31 May 2016 18:21:47 +0200 https://snyke.net/post/blockchain-meetup-talk/ I’m a big fan of meetups, with our first Zurich Bitcoin Meetup all the way back in 2011, with just 4 people attending, more on that another time. The Zurich Bitcoin meetups have become far more popular and better organized, thanks to Lucas, who has been organizing the locations and speakers. And so it was my turn to speak about my research at the latest Meetup: The talk has quite a large introduction about how Bitcoin works and why it does not scale. https://snyke.net/post/getting-git-to-play-nicely-with-cdns/ Sat, 17 Oct 2015 23:46:26 +0200 https://snyke.net/post/getting-git-to-play-nicely-with-cdns/ Git is a really cool version control system. So cool in fact that I decided to use it to distribute the project I’m working on to several hundreds of Planetlab nodes. So I went ahead and created a repository with git init --bare somewhere in under the root of my local Apache2. Using pssh we can clone and pull from the repository simply by specifying the URL to that repo. https://snyke.net/post/bitcoins-getting-some-traction/ Sat, 11 Dec 2010 21:01:30 +0200 https://snyke.net/post/bitcoins-getting-some-traction/ It’s an amazing time to be part of the Bitcoin family. With the Wikileaks scandal we had some quite heated discussions on whether to promote ourselfs as an alternative way for them to acquire funds, but in the end we decided not to, preferring not to be associated with a company being investigated by some countries. However the decision seems to have already been taken for us: as this article in PCWorld demonstrates we are not the only ones making that connection.