How I Stole Your Siacoin
A developer recounts how they cracked a Sia cryptocurrency wallet seed posted on Reddit by exploiting a single character error.
Michael Lynch – Developer, Indie Founder and Technical Writer Michael Lynch shares honest and detailed stories from his journey as a software engineer and indie founder. His blog covers topics like building sustainable businesses, code reviews, software craftsmanship, and lessons learned from running and selling his own startup, TinyPilot. Each post reflects a mix of engineering precision and real-world experience, written with clarity and humor. Readers can find tutorials, retrospectives, and essays that go beyond code to explore motivation, productivity, and the human side of software development. This blog is a must-read for developers, indie hackers, and anyone who enjoys thoughtful writing about technology and entrepreneurship.
146 articles from this blog
A developer recounts how they cracked a Sia cryptocurrency wallet seed posted on Reddit by exploiting a single character error.
A guide on setting up a Windows PC to mine Siacoin cryptocurrency using a GPU, though it notes the method is now outdated.
A guide to building a dedicated homelab server for running development VMs, covering the benefits of isolation and hardware selection.
Using Selenium to create automated tests for Ansible web app roles, demonstrating how to verify complex application functionality beyond basic deployment checks.
A guide to automating the deployment of the ClipBucket video hosting platform using Ansible configuration management.
A guide to setting up a Sia decentralized storage server on a Synology NAS device using Docker for improved availability.