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Brooklyn Graffiti Artist 'Gadse' and the Spread of Bitcoin
June 25th, 2015 by
Kristov Atlas This article originally appeared on the blog of Kristov Atlas.
If you’ve spent any time in Brooklyn, you’re probably familiar with the works of Gadse. A typical intersection in the Bushwick neighborhood displays his anti-totalitarian art.
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Launching XCPassets.org
May 6th, 2015 by
Robert Ross After going through the forums for Counterparty, I noticed that there have been many requests for a website that displays all of the actively developed tokens for Counterparty. So I decided to build XCPassets.org.
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Ghana's Dream Bitcoin Foundation Envisions Tools to Empower Young Minds
April 25th, 2015 by
Philip Agyei Asare My Name is Philip Agyei Asare. I am the founding president of Dream Bitcoin Foundation (DBF), a nonprofit organization that aims to empower young entrepreneurs in Ghana through education about entrepreneurship and cryptocurrencies. DBF's founders aim to stand on the leading edge of the liberty to which they are dedicated – for themselves and all of their fellow humans. We have developed a plan to bring about such liberty. For this, for this we need an office space to help us toward our goal of becoming a self-funding enterprise.
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A Lighthouse at the End of the Tunnel
April 8th, 2015 by
Martin I first learned about Mike Hearn's wonderful Lighthouse fundraising platform last year and proceeded to download it from his GitHub page and get the client running on my Ubuntu install without too much hassle. Now there's an easier way: Lightlist.
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The Story of Chero from Sierra Leone: Interview with dmnyc, Part 2
March 18th, 2015 by
Cheryl Hulseapple In part one, I interviewed Daniel Modell (dmnyc) about the ChangeCup project he started, using ChangeTip and Bitcoin to buy coffee and food for the homeless during the cold winter in NYC.
When I asked him whether he had anything else he wanted to share during the interview, he said he has been corresponding with a young man named Chero.
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Victoria Van Eyk Interviews Andreas Antonopoulos: Bitcoin for the Other 6.5 Billion (Audio)
March 14th, 2015 by Martin In April 2014, Victoria van Eyk of ChangeTip had the pleasure of sitting down with Bitcoin thought leader Andreas Antonopoulos to ask in-depth questions about the industry. The following is a recorded interview that explores how Bitcoin and blockchain technology can actually change the world for the other 6.5 billion. (Warning: Contains strong language in the later stages of the interview.)
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An Alternate Reality for LTBcoin
March 13th, 2015 by
John Light Recently on my LTB network podcast, P2P Connects Us, Matthew Deiters joined the show to talk about his company, Assembly. Assembly is a collaboration platform for open source software projects with a twist: contributors actually get paid if the project is successful in the market. The way it works is that someone with an idea for an app creates a project on Assembly and is issued an initial sum of “Assembly coins.” At the time that they are issued, the coins aren't worth anything bec... Read More -
Dream Bitcoin Foundation to Organize March 21 CoinFest Event in Ghana, Africa
March 11th, 2015 by
David R. Allen Earlier this year, I met a young man while experimenting with Getgems messenger. His goal was clear: to bring awareness to his city and country about the use of Bitcoin. Philip Agyei Asare is active in his community and needs financial help to follow his dream. The Dream Bitcoin Foundation will be organizing a Bitcoin-focused event on March 17, 2015 in Kumasi called CoinFest. . . .
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Transparency: A Fresh Look at the Bitcoin Foundation, Part Two
March 2nd, 2015 by
Sam J. In my first post in this series I introduced some basic aspects of the foundation and provided a single example of what I call fragmented communication; in part two, I will look at what information is and isn't currently available from the Bitcoin Foundation website. Read More -
A Chinese Lawyer's Thoughts on Crypto
February 28th, 2015 by
totteplott China has recently surpassed the US as the world's biggest economy, and although China has had problems with its shadow banking system, corruption and more, it has shown to be surprisingly open about cryptocurrencies. This may seem surprising coming from a country that is communist, at least on paper. In order to get better understanding of how the Chinese are reasoning about this topic, here is an interview with Roland Sun (孙铭), a leading cryptocurrency lawyer in China.
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A Fresh Look at the Bitcoin Foundation, Part One
February 25th, 2015 by Sam J. This series of posts will show the perspective of a relative newcomer to Bitcoin, focus on the function of the Bitcoin Foundation, and cover aspects such as such as communication, public perception, efficiency, as well as transparency. I only recently joined the foundation, after looking for a way in which I could provide support towards Bitcoin’s development. The foundation is arguably the "official" organisation behind Bitcoin for many reasons, although it is important to note that the two are independent. One is a decentralized, open-source cryptocurrency. The other is a nonprofit organization. Read More -
P2P Connects Us Episode 13 - Steve Dekorte
February 23rd, 2015 by John Light On today's episode we're going to be talking about a workshop in London for p2p projects, building a mesh network in Oakland, the Subspace p2p messaging protocol, p2p ridesharing kind of maybe allowed in San Diego, and last but certainly not least, Steve Dekorte joins the show to tell us about his work at voluntary.net. DarkleaksFLOSS4P2P WorkshopPeople's Open"Building Out Our Backbone"Bitcoin AuthenticatorSubspace p2p anonymous messaging protocolECDH in the Payment Protocol SDIA TNC... Read More -
Which altcoins and why
February 19th, 2015 by
Tron Black At the first Bitcoin conference I ever attended, which took place in San Jose in 2013, I encountered Bitcoin bigotry. ASIC mining had begun, and those mining on home computers were switching to Litecoin. Although the altcoin mania was in full bloom, I was at a Bitcoin conference, and it was clear that many long-time bitcoin holders perceived altcoins as a threat. For them, it was all about the network effect, and any service poaching from the Bitcoin user base was not viewed favorably.
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Nature is still doing its thing
February 16th, 2015 by
Arturo Blockchain technology is nothing new. We have lived with blockchains since our inception as homo sapiens. Each cell in our body contains a copy of our unique string of DNA. We have different kinds of cells, so each cell follows a portion of the instructions set out in the DNA, yet each cell contains the full DNA copy. Of course, the cells don't need to worry about bloat since the chain of instructions doesn't change, that is until it merges with the DNA of another human. Amazingly, we can infe...
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Could China consider investing in Bitcoin?
February 13th, 2015 by totteplott China has, for a long time now, been buying tons of gold, literally, in anticipation of the future. There are a lot of speculations in why China is doing such a move, especially since the CEO of CitiGroup made a statement recently claiming that "gold is in a 6,000 year bubble". One the...
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A Bitcoin Talk in Costa Rica
February 8th, 2015 by Arturo I finished 2014 with so many great experiences in Argentina that the final outcome of educating and assisting in the Bitcoin adoption there didn't disappoint me. ...
What I didn't expect was that a "tico" (Costa Rican) would contact me and ask whether I wanted to give a Bitcoin talk in San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica. I was already going to visit Costa Rica on my way up from South America as I headed to Canada, so I accepted the invitation.
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Merged Folding
February 5th, 2015 by Robert Ross Merged Folding
Written by the FoldingCoin Inc Team
On February 5th, 2015 FoldingCoin Inc. is introducing Merged Folding to our platform. This allows other cryptocurrency projects to partner with FoldingCoin, sharing our distribution platform in combination with the LTB asset distributor. These projects can distribute based on the Folding@home (FA...
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A Community of Bitcoin Tippers
January 31st, 2015 by Martin Reddit.com is host to many diverse and fascinating subreddits, created and monitored by the community. The following article discusses one of my favorite subreddits.
My Introduction to BitTippers
My morning routine is to eat a bowl of cereal, make a cup of coffee, and sit surfing my favorite Bitcoin-related sites before work. It was on one of these typical mornings sometime last year that I stumbled across a small subreddit called "BitTippers."
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Let's Talk Bitcoin! #181 Let's Talk Bitcoin for the Befuddled
January 24th, 2015 by
Adam B. Levine *Subscribe to the LTBn All Podcasts feedor the Let's Talk Bitcoin! show only feed and never miss an episode again.
On Todays Show
- Adam speaks with Conrad Barski and Chris Wilmer about their book Bitcoin for the Befuddled as well as Conrad's Cointagion no-account bitcoin bookstore and Chris' [bitcoin journal project](https://bitcointalk.org/index...
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Coinorado: Colorado's First Bitcoin Hackathon
January 23rd, 2015 by
Ryan Walker I attended the University of Colorado Boulder Bitcoin Club's official hackathon, Coin-orado, this past November. Over 50 participants, including many exciting Bitcoin personalities, gathered for the event. Here's my recap.
Event Details
Coin-orado, Colorado’s first official Bitcoin competition, took place on November 14th, 2014 in Boulder, Colorado. The 24-hour event, organized by club co-founder Broc Kanady -- a senior ma...
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