Bitaxe And The Open-Source Bitcoin Mining Movement

Bitaxe founder Skot not only created the first ever open-source ASIC-based Bitcoin miner, but he’s inspired over 4,000 others to contribute to open-source Bitcoin mining projects.

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BTCPay Server Is Bitcoin’s Open-Source Unicorn

Inside one of Bitcoin’s most inspiring projects

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Jack Dorsey is Building an Open Source and Decentralized Twitter

Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has taken another step towards building a decentralized standard for social media. Bitcoin believer took to Twitter to announce his plans for an open-source Twitter for which the social media giant is funding a small independent team of up to five architects, engineers, and designers dubbed Bluesky. lo https://t.co/Yr1Bwjd4mA […]

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MyEtherWallet (MEW) introduces revamped dashboard and new NFT manager

CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceMyEtherWallet (MEW), the open-source client-side interface for interacting with the Ethereum blockchain, has announced some new upgrades since its V5 launch back in February worth taking stock of.

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Coders Attempt to Link Bitcoin Lightning Network to Ethereum as Vitalik Buterin Supports The Plan

The cryptocurrency world is all about mixing stuff up to see what comes out. While the nascent blockchain enterprise field is much more pragmatic, open-source developers are all about mixing stuff and creating things sometimes just for the sake of creating them.

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What Bitcoin and Ethereum can teach GitHub following the Iranian user ban

GitHub, a San Francisco-based open-source code hosting provider, was prevented from providing sanctioned nations, including Iran and Syria, from accessing their supposedly open-source services. These restrictions highlight the need for decentralized web utilities—like Bitcoin and Ethereum.

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Wasabi Wallet’s Implementation of Chaumian CoinJoin Deemed to Lack Privacy: Samourai Wallet

Wasabi was first launched as “an open-source, non-custodial, privacy-focused,” Bitcoin wallet for desktop uses. It implements, a trustless method for combining Bitcoin payments from multiple spenders, typically referred to as coin shuffling – a service offered by CoinJoin.

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Ontology (ONT) and NEO (NEO) Launch Open Cross-Chain Platform 

NEO (NEO), an open-source, community-driven platform for decentralized applications (dApps) has joined forces with Ontology (ONT) to build an open cross-chain platform to serve as a foundation for the next-gen internet, according to a press release on July 18, 2019.

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MARKET Protocol brings leveraged long (LBTC) & short (SBTC) bitcoin to DDEX

CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceMARKET Protocol, an open-source platform powering decentralized derivatives trading and exchanges on the Ethereum blockchain, today announced a partnership with decentralized crypto exchange DDEX to bring leveraged long (LBTC) and short (SBTC) bitcoin assets to traders starting this Friday, July 19th.

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Crypto project PIVX releases brand new, next generation wallet

CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceToday, the PIVX project released a brand new core wallet, the major development originates from open-source Pull Request (PR#954) on the PIVX GitHub.

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eXo partners with ONLYOFFICE to provide alternative digital office suite to clients

CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceeXo Platform, a leading open-source provider of digital workplace solutions, today announced it has partnered with ONLYOFFICE to offer an integrated office suite to its government, defense, and institutional clients.

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Jack Dorsey answers our questions about Square’s plans for Bitcoin

Square is a company best known for its disruptive card payment technology. Founded in 2009 by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, the company sells affordable mobile-based point-of-sale systems. But beyond the world of traditional fiat currencies, the firm is making cautious steps into the fast-paced world of cryptocurrency.

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Jack Dorsey’s open-source Bitcoin initiative makes its first hire

Jack Dorsey’s open-source Bitcoin initiative, Square Crypto, brings on a former Google project manager as its first hire. Jack Dorsey launched Square Crypto this March as an open-source project to improve the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency ecosystem “independent” of his two companies, Twitter and Square.

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goTenna releases whitepaper for mobile mesh network bitcoin payments

goTenna, a mobile mesh networking company, today announced Global Mesh Labs, a new entity for their open-source protocol that will allow for easier person-to-person transactions. By creating Global Mesh Labs and open-sourcing its Lot49 protocol, goTenna will partner with developers and Bitcoin enthusiasts to build on its innovation in the mesh networking space. The protocol […]

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Michael Ford Named Newest Bitcoin Core Code Maintainer

Long-time Bitcoin Core contributor Michael Ford has been named the newest maintainer of the open-source software project.

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Standard Tokenization Protocol (STP) to Launch IEO on Bittrex

Standard Tokenization Protocol (STP), an open-source decentralized platform for the issuance of tokenized assets, has joined forces with Bittrex International, a Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange, in a bid to conduct its initial exchange offering (IEO) on the exchange, according to a press release on June 5, 2019.

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Microsoft releases Ethereum-based open-source formal verification tool for Solidity smart contracts

Ethereum, the market’s leading altcoin, is currently one of the most-trusted cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. Leading businesses such as Facebook, JP Morgan and E&Y have all released open-source software for Ethereum, signalling a strong inclination towards Vitalik Buterin’s brainchild.

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Altcoin: Cryptocurrency Market is Expanding

Bitcoin is widely regarded as the Founding Father of all contemporary cryptocurrencies. People first heard of Bitcoin in 2009 when Satoshi Nakamoto, whose identity still remains unknown, revealed an open-source code that was actually an improved conceptualization of a cryptography method known as the blockchain.

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Twitter CEO Dorsey: Square Crypto Begins ‘Inevitable’ Bitcoin Mass Adoption

By CCN: Square, the $32. 7 billion mobile payment company founded by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, is one step closer to launching its long-awaited crypto project. The company claimed last night that bitcoin mass adoption is “inevitable” and it is close to making its first hire.

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Gab's New Strategy: Fork Open-Source Software And Add Bitcoin

After Keybase announced integration of Stellar on its platform, Gab has threatened to fork the open-source chat software and swap its XLM wallet for a Bitcoin Lightning Wallet. The famously anti-censorship social network previously forked the Brave browser.

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Microsoft Is Building an ID Verification Platform on Bitcoin

Microsoft is leveraging blockchain technology to create a trustless digital identity scheme, but its not launching a token or building a private blockchain to do so.

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TREZOR One Review: A Trusted Hardware Wallet, Worth Buying?

Established in 2014 in the Czech Republic, Trezor is one of the most well established and trusted cryptocurrency security companies. Trezor hardware wallets are developed and produced by SatoshiLabs, a company that was founded by cryptocurrency veteran Marek Palatinus and places a strong focus on open-source code.

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Qtum Launches Blockchain Development Suite on Google Cloud

Blockchain project Qtum on May 2, 2019, announced its integration with Google’s Cloud Platform. With this, Qtum developers can now develop enterprise-grade decentralized applications and smart contracts on Google’s Cloud Platform.

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Crypto News Today: Latest Bitcoin Stories and Blockchain Headlines this Week [VIDEO]

Analysts Flip Bullish En-Masse Predicting Bitcoin’s Price to Jump Above $7,000 BTC/USD Analysts Flip Bullish En-Masse Predicting Bitcoin's Price to Jump Above $7,000 BTC/USD Hacker Breaks in To Multiple Open-Source Platforms, Demanding Bitcoin Ransom for Return of Data Hacker Breaks in To Multiple Open-Source Platforms, Demanding Bitcoin Ransom for Return of Data Evaluating the US’ […]

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Hacker Breaks in To Multiple Open-Source Platforms, Demanding Bitcoin Ransom for Return of Data

GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab speak on recent attacks on user repositories. Hacker has yet to fill crypto wallet with demanded random payments. GitHub is a platform for open-source codes that many developers use to test out protocols and adapt to their own uses.

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Microsoft Azure Now Supports RSK Smart Contracts

RIF Labs has announced the integration of its public blockchain, RSK Smart Contracts, on Microsoft's Azure Marketplace. The RSK Smart Contract Network is an open-source platform that seeks to extend the functionality of Bitcoin using smart contracts and the Azure Marketplace is an app store for Microsoft’s cloud computing service.

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eToro Launches Regulated Crypto Exchange, Dodges Bitcoin SV Bullet

By CCN: Institutional investors are running out of excuses not to invest in crypto. Israeli-based social trading platform eToro has launched eToroX, a fully regulated crypto exchange. eToroX debuts with half-a-dozen top cryptocurrencies and eight fiat currency-backed stablecoins, the latter of which are now open-source.

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Binance Labs Gives $45,000 In Grants to Three Open-Source Blockchain Projects

In their latest round of support for blockchain Projects, Binance Labs has given $15,000 to three open-source blockchain projects through their fellowship round supporting open-source blockchain development, announced on April 12, 2019.

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Blockchain governance is boring, butt one developer solved it with assplay

Blockchain governance is a touchy subject. There’s always drama when it comes to rolling out upgrades to open-source projects like Bitcoin and Ethereum, butt one dev has an “interesting” solution for curbing heated governance debates: assplay.

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Mozilla Firefox Web Browser Adds Anti-Cryptojacking Functionality

Firefox, a free open-source web browser developed by Mozilla, a global non-profit organization that claims to be dedicated to putting web surfers in control of their online activities, has added anti-cryptojacking and fingerprinting functionality to Firefox Nightly 68 and Beta 67 versions, according to a blog post on April 9, 2019.

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Sparkswap, World’s First Lightning Atomic Swap Exchange, Now in Beta

Bitcoin’s first decentralized exchange to make use of the Lightning Network’s Atomic Swaps is now in beta. Sparkswap, an exchange with backing from Pantera Capital (which announced its ambitious mission to become the most decentralized bitcoin exchange on the market in August 2018), has now opened its beta to users.

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Goldman Sachs Set to Share its Trading Secrets on GitHub

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. , a United States-based multinational investment bank has announced plans to open-source its proprietary securities trading and risk management software in a bid to crowdsource new use cases and earn the loyalty of computer-driven traders, according to a Slashdot report on April 4, 2019.

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New Open-Source WebLN Standard Gains Momentum for Bitcoin Lightning Network Payments

The process of sending bitcoin lightning payments is fairly straightforward, but the new bitcoin standard, WebLN, was created with the purpose of improving lightning payments in a simpler way. The standard is an open-source system, which is presently gaining some traction as it is used by two of the more popular lightning wallets – Lightning […]

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Anonymous Browser Tor Now Accepts Donations in 9 Cryptocurrencies

The open-source project behind the popular anonymous internet browser Tor has announced that it now accepts donations in several cryptocurrencies. Donors can choose between bitcoin and eight other digital currencies to fund the development of the open-source project’s applications.

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A Bitcoin Lightning Web Standard, Inspired By Ethereum, Is Gaining Steam

Sending bitcoin lightning payments over the web might soon get easier. That’s because a new bitcoin standard for simplifying lightning payments, the open-source WebLN standard, is gaining traction, now being used by Lightning Joule and Bluewallet, two of the more popular lightning wallets, as well as apps like Lightning Spin, to slim down the number […]

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Cardano (ADA) Spikes 13.7% in 24 Hours with Mainnet Upgrade Boost

ADA, the native token of Cardano’s open-source blockchain project, has jumped 13. 7-percent since Thursday’s mid-session. At 1330 UTC, the ADA-to-dollar rate was trading at 0. 058, up 7.

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Why Square’s Bitcoin Hiring Spree is Crucial for Crypto Adoption

Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Square, the $32. 7 billion mobile payment giant based in the U. S. , revealed that Square would fund three to four developers and a designer to work on the open-source protocol of Bitcoin and the crypto ecosystem.

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Jack Dorsey: Square Will Pay Bitcoin Devs To Build Open-Source Ecosystem

Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has revealed a major scheme to pay developers to build out the Bitcoin ecosystem with open source technology. Dorsey Plans To ‘Give Back’ To Open Source In a move which underscored the tech mogul’s appreciation of both cryptocurrency and freely accessible innovation, Dorsey said he will hire “3-4 crypto engineers and 1 designer” to contribute to crypto full time – and pay them in BTC.

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Improving Bitcoin: Jack Dorsey Announces Open-Source Initiative Square Crypto

Jack Dorsey—the CEO of Twitter and Square, announced “Square Crypto”—a team Dorsey is assembling to work full-time on improving the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency ecosystems “independent” of Square’s business objectives.

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says he will pay you to work on Bitcoin full-time

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has made an offering to the cryptocurrency community: he will pay developers to work full-time on Bitcoin Core and other “cryptocurrency ecosystem” projects. Are you currently contributing to bitcoin-core or other crypto ecosystem projects for free in your off-time? We’d like to pay you to do it full-time.

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Bitwarden encrypted password manager service now accepts bitcoin

CryptoNinjas Bitwarden, an open-source password management service that stores sensitive information such as website credentials in an encrypted vault, has announced that Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) are now accepted methods of payment for both Bitwarden premium.

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Will This Vulnerability Finally Compel Bitmain to Open Source Its Firmware?

As if Bitmain’s year hasn’t been rough enough, having posted big losses and laying off entire departments, its flagship product now has a firmware vulnerability. A few weeks ago, Bitcoin Core contributor James Hilliard discovered an exploit in Bitmain’s S15 firmware.

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What Is Ravencoin? Introduction to RVN Token

What Is Ravencoin? The open-source Ravencoin platform launched January 3, 2018 to enable tokenized asset transfers on the blockchain. While blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum have asset transfer capabilities, it’s not their primary function.

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21 Lectures Offers Bitcoin Developer Courses by Schnelli, Decker and Chiang

Switzerland is an international bitcoin and blockchain mecca, known for its crypto culture and concentration of crypto businesses. Now, it is the new home to 21 Lectures, a school for bitcoin developers founded by Lucas Betschart.

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$2.2 Billion and Climbing: How Litecoin Surged 10% Overnight to Become the 4th Largest Cryptocurrency

Litecoin (LTC) has increased by more than 10 percent in value in the past 3 hours from $33 to $38, becoming the 4th largest currency in the global crypto market. EOS, which secured its position as the 4th most valuable cryptocurrency behind Bitcoin, Ripple, and Ethereum since 2018, was surpassed by Litecoin.

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Blockstream Open Sources Development of Its Proof of Reserves Tool

On February 4, 2019, blockchain tech company Blockstream announced the development of a “proof of reserves” tool to standardize the authenticity of exchanges’ crypto reserves.

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Litecoin’s (LTC) New Logo and Refined Vision for 2019 and Beyond

Litecoin (LTC), created in 2011 as an open-source fork of Bitcoin (BTC), has long been thought of as Bitcoin’s… The post Litecoin’s (LTC) New Logo and Refined Vision for 2019 and Beyond appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.

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SatoshiPay releases Solar, a new open-source multi-sig wallet for Stellar (XLM)

CryptoNinjas SatoshiPay, a bitcoin and cryptocurrency payment company recently announced the launch of Solar, a multi-signature wallet for Stellar (XLM), that brings enterprise-grade security and features to the Stellar network.

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Bitfury Unveil Tools to Promote Bitcoin Lightning Network Adoption

Bitfury’s Lightning Peach team has launched a series of products including an open-source Lightning Network-powered bitcoin wallet, a hardware terminal, a suite of developer tools and more, aimed at promoting the adoption of the Bitcoin Lightning network, according to a Medium Blog post on January 23, 2019.

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