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Bitcoin Full Node on AWS Free Tier

Provisioning

  • Launch one T2 micro instance, using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS AMI.
  • Open SSH and Bitcoin Protocol TCP ports: 22, 8333.
  • Attach 40GB EBS (General-Purpose SSD) volume for blockchain storage to /dev/sdf.

The pricing should be ~3$ for the first year (assuming 30GB upload per month). See here for more details.

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Gozala / javascript_background_thread.js
Created September 19, 2012 01:53 — forked from jameswomack/javascript_background_thread.js
Extend function prototype to run a function as a WebWorker
Function.prototype.runOnBackgroundThread = function (aCallback) {
var _blob = new Blob(['onmessage = '+this.toString()],{"type":"text/javascript"});
var _worker = new Worker((webkitURL.createObjectURL || URL.createObjectURL)(_blob));
_worker.onmessage = aCallback;
_worker.postMessage();
}
var _test = function () {
postMessage((1+1).toString());
}