Welcome to BTChodl.xyz

Welcome to BTChodl.xyz

The idea is to make this website a collection of resources, news and information that I as new to bitcoin find useful along with some of my own ramblings and hope that are useful for other new comers to bitcoin, and to anyone looking to get into bitcoin. What is important and the reason for…

Foundation Passport Batch 2

Foundation Passport Batch 2

Hi and welcome back, a few months back (March 2022) I preordered Foundation’s Passport Batch 2 Bitcoin hardware wallet, and I have resently received my order (November 2022) this post is a quick one to show what is in the box once you receive it. This post will contain mainly pictures to show “what’s in…

Wasabi Wallet 2.0 setup

Wasabi Wallet 2.0 setup

Wasabi Wallet is a non-custodial wallet this means that you hold the keys to your Bitcoin, it is also privacy focused and open source, this wallet has by default been set to coinjoin your Bitcoin in order to improve on your privacy by mixing your coin with that of other users. This post will be…

Moved to selfhosted

I just moved btchodl.xyz from the VPS where it had been previously hosted to self hosted on a server at my place, If you could and advice if you notice major issues with speed, links not working, or anything acting weird, etc, you could use the contact form from the website or just email me…

ColdCard MK4

ColdCard MK4

Quick Unpacking and Comparison Hello again today we are going to take a quick look at the new version of Coinkite ColdCard hardware wallet the MK4, so a couple weeks ago I received my new MK4 that I had ordered during the pre-order window back in January, this post is mainly like an unboxing just…

PROJECT: Citadel Node

PROJECT: Citadel Node

On this post we are going to be building a Bitcoin node and we will be using Citadel as the stack provider, here is more about Citadel from their Github: “Citadel is modern, mostly open source and soon to be fully FLOSS Bitcoin Node implementation originally based on Umbrel, but we have moved most of…

Introducing BTCwares.com

Introducing BTCwares.com

When I found Bitcoin it became an obsession I wanted to learn as much as I could about it so started reading, listening to podcasts got into twitter and continue learning from where these people had been in their bitcoin Journey thru this process I learned about the Seedsigner and Blockmit projects among others, but…