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Obsidian Systems designs and develops high quality software solutions to pressing business problems. Our experienced team has delivered solutions to thousands of consumers.

Kicking off "Peer-to-Peer Access to Our Software Heritage" with IPFS

Kicking off "Peer-to-Peer Access to Our Software Heritage" with IPFS

Recently, Software Heritage and Obsidian Systems were awarded an NLNet Foundation grant to bridge IPFS and the Software Heritage archive. Software Heritage also announced the beginning of this project on their blog. We were inspired to undertake this work after our previous work interfacing Nix and IPFS. The bridge between

Setting up WeeChat and Glowing Bear on NixOS

Setting up WeeChat and Glowing Bear on NixOS

So much conversation in the Haskell and Nix ecosystems happens on IRC. One of the disadvantages of IRC is that you can't log in ("identify") as the same user on multiple machines. This is especially annoying when switching between mobile and desktop. Some proprietary services, like

Nix × IPFS — Milestone 1

Nix × IPFS — Milestone 1

This was originally posted on the IPFS Blog. It was also discussed on Hacker News. Obsidian Systems is adding support for IPFS to Nix so that build products can be persisted to and fetched from IPFS. This adds resiliency and makes it easier for Nix users to reproduce and distribute

Nervos Ledger App: Status Update #2

Nervos Ledger App: Status Update #2

Work is well underway for our second Nervos grant: Hardware Wallet Support in CKB-CLI and Additional Ledger Features. Here's an update on the progress that has been made so far! Milestone 1 Progress Done: Storage of Hardware Wallet Root Public Keys in CKB-CLI The account import command can

How to use Multisigs with CKB-CLI

How to use Multisigs with CKB-CLI

This guide is the first of a series from Obsidian Systems on how to construct different types of transactions with Nervos' client, CKB-CLI. Here we'll cover multisigs - what they are, how to make them, and how to construct a transfer from them. We'll also

Nervos Ledger App: Status Update #1

Nervos Ledger App: Status Update #1

Obsidian Systems has been hard at work bringing support for Nervos to the Ledger Nano S and Nano X and we would like to take this opportunity to update the community on our progress! You can find our original grant proposal on Nervos Talk. Where is the code? Adding support

Kiln v0.8.0: Carthage and New Node Storage Backend

Kiln v0.8.0: Carthage and New Node Storage Backend

Kiln v0.8.0 is here! This release adds support for the Carthage protocol and upgrades the Kiln Node's storage backend. If you would like to bake after Carthage takes effect at block level 851,969, you must upgrade. You will also need to recreate your Kiln Node