10 Long-Term BTC Price Predictions by Finance Gurus (2023)

This article will examine the Bitcoin price predictions of many experts in the broad finance and investment industry. Methodology: Experts were selected with a breadth of understanding and reputation in the financial industry. Disclaimer: This is 100% subjective, and we neither recommend buying or selling BTC as a result of this study. We are no … Read more

Ethereum Smart Contract Fuzz-Testing with Echidna

What is Fuzzing?                 Fuzz testing (or fuzzing) is an automated software testing method with the goal to find vulnerabilities, security issues, and defects of the application. The idea is to inject invalid, malformed, or unexpected inputs into the application using a fuzzing tool and observing how the system reacts to those inputs (e.g., exceptions, leakage … Read more

Caesar Cipher in Python

Caesar Cipher is a simple encryption and obfuscation method. It’s a straightforward substitution cipher that replaces each plain text character with the obfuscated character obtained by shifting the plain text character a fixed number of positions in the alphabet. What is Cryptography? Before we introduce our first cryptographic algorithm, Caesar’s cipher, let’s first introduce cryptography … Read more

Can a Miner Change a Bitcoin Transaction?

You should always apply your own critical thinking when it comes to the crypto space. One question asked by many critical thinkers who know the overall idea of the Bitcoin protocol but not yet its technicalities is: πŸ’¬ Question: What if a miner is not trustworthy and tries to change my transaction? Can the miner … Read more

15 Highly Profitable Freelancing Niches Developers Miss Out On [Video Collection]

In this guide, I’ve compiled the top 7 freelancing niches I found highly profitable based on my experience working as a business owner and freelancer myself, hiring hundreds of freelance developers for my company, and teaching thousands of freelancing students through our books and courses. Each niche is presented with a video where I show … Read more

Denial of Service (DoS) Attack on Smart Contracts

This post is part 5 of our Smart Contract Security Series: Ownership Exploit Private Variable Exploit Reentrancy Attack tx.origin Phishing Attack Denial of Service Attack Storage Collision Attack Randomness Attack Replay Attack The post discusses the Denial of Service or alias the DoS attack. The Denial of Service (hence referred to as DoS) restricts legitimate … Read more

tx.origin Phishing Attack — Smart Contract Security

This post is part 4 of our Smart Contract Security Series: Ownership Exploit Private Variable Exploit Reentrancy Attack tx.origin Phishing Attack Denial of Service Attack Storage Collision Attack Randomness Attack Replay Attack In this post, we discuss phishing attacks due to tx.origin. In the regular phishing of a website, phishing begins with a phony email … Read more

Reentrancy Attack – Hacking Smart Contracts [Solidity]

You can check out the code for this article on our GitHub. Preamble This post is part 3 in continuation of our Smart Contract Security Series. This post is part of our Smart Contract Security Series: Ownership Exploit Private Variable Exploit Reentrancy Attack tx.origin Phishing Attack Denial of Service Attack Storage Collision Attack Randomness Attack … Read more

Top 10 Solidity Tutorials

If you are considering investing time in learning about blockchain, it can seem a weighty undertaking.  There are a multitude of blockchain variants such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Dogecoin, and the terminology can be just as confusing.  Four general types of blockchain networks are in use today: public, private, consortium, and permissioned.  Each has … Read more

Private Variable Exploit – Hacking Smart Contracts in Solidity

Introduction This post is part 2 of our Smart Contract Security Series: Ownership Exploit Private Variable Exploit Reentrancy Attack tx.origin Phishing Attack Denial of Service Attack Storage Collision Attack Randomness Attack Replay Attack In this part 2 of the series, we’ll examine how to exploit the “private” vulnerability in Solidity. As the name suggests, private … Read more

Ownership Exploit in Solidity Smart Contracts

In the smart contract security series, we will see multiple vulnerabilities, attacks, and exploitations in the smart contracts, along with the prevention measures. This post is part 1 of our Smart Contract Security Series: Ownership Exploit Private Variable Exploit Reentrancy Attack tx.origin Phishing Attack Denial of Service Attack Storage Collision Attack Randomness Attack Replay Attack … Read more

Rust Developer – Income and Opportunity

Annual Income The average annual income of a professional Rust Developer in the US is $180,000 according to Zdnet (source): Other sources find that the average Rust developer income is $106,750 per year: Hourly Rate Rust Developers are well-paid on freelancing platforms such as Upwork or Fiverr. Related Article: What’s the best freelancing platform? If … Read more