October, 2014 Archives
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Cryptoween
October 31st, 2014 by
Mike Johnson Bitcoin was born on Halloween, six years ago. On a crisp fall morning much like today, Satoshi Nakamoto made a post to the Cryptography mailing list. The post announced the Bitcoin white paper to the world.
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Decentralized Internet Update
October 31st, 2014 by
mike ward There is considerable activity going on behind the scenes, so I figured I'd offer a survey of current events, instead of taking an in-depth look at various topics individually.
The Huffington Post carried an article recently about domain name thefts. The main point was that domain thefts happen, and there is often little recourse for the domain registrants. As long as we rely on registrars to safeguard our domain names, instead of controlling our own, thefts will happen.
This week I came across an altcoin called EmerCoin. They allow people to register .emc and .coin domains. Now is the preregistration period. Domains will be allocated, for free, to registrants of existing domains in other extensions.
okTurtles announced this week that they are hiring! The team is expanding in order to better pursue development efforts around its flagship products—DNSChain and okTurtles software. Node.js developers are wanted, as well as fundraisers. Also, the OpenBazaar team has begun their DNSChain integration effort.
ICANN 51 took place in Los Angeles last week, with hundreds of participants falling asleep during the proceedings. The main item on the agenda was, of course, the IANA Stewardship transition, but we also take a look at proposed changes to WHOIS.
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Permacredits Episode 2: Sangeeta in Bangalore
October 29th, 2014 by
Permacredits This is the second in a series of short stories highlighting what life is like in Colony Earth Corp, a member-owned lifestyle corporation that builds exquisite living environments running on Permacredits.
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The Bitcoin Game #2 - Factom
October 27th, 2014 by
Rob Welcome to episode number two of The Bitcoin Game. I'm your host, Rob Mitchell. In this episode I talk to Peter Kirby about Factom, a distributed application that functions as a scalable permanent system of record. We also talk about the Texas Bitcoin Conference, and finally, discuss the price and value of Bitcoin.
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Everything I Need to Know About Bitcoin Trading, I Learned from Game of Thrones
October 25th, 2014 by
Luis buenaventura Trading on Bitcoin order-book exchanges can be a daunting task, a Meereenese knot of technical jargon, complex user interfaces, and more graphs than you can shake a Greyjoy sausage at.
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Chain Wars: Kinaree Unmasked
October 21st, 2014 by mike ward The Chain Wars saga continues as former chain lord Tine kills Naga Sib and meets its creator, her mysterious sponsor. Read More -
Permacredits Episode 1: Conner's Life in the Colony Earth Development
October 17th, 2014 by Permacredits This is the first in a series of short stories highlighting what life is like in Colony Earth Corp., a member-owned lifestyle corporation that builds exquisite living environments that run on Permacredits.
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Introducing Rebittance.org
October 16th, 2014 by Luis buenaventura Over the past two months, our Bitcoin startup out of the Philippines has been quietly pushing the term rebittance to describe a style of Bitcoin-powered money transfer that begins with BTC and ends with local fiat currency. On October 14, we launched the first version of an informational one-pager that explains how it works and how it compares with traditional bank-to-bank money transfer.
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The Bitcoin Game #1 - Southern California Job Fair
October 15th, 2014 by Rob Welcome to the first episode of The Bitcoin Game. I was fortunate that Dan Roseman of the Bitcoin job board Coinality.com, decided to bring his Bitcoin Job Fair to Southern California on October 4th, 2014. The event was held at the Plug And Play Tech Center in Santa Monica.
In this podcast you'll hear interviews with principal members of four Bitcoin businesses that were hiring at the job fair (there were many more than just these four!). I started with a quick chat with ExpressCoin CEO Will ...
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