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The Pineapple Fund donated $55M in nonprofit Bitcoin grants
On December 14, 2017 a post was made on Reddit that would forever change the landscape of charitable giving with cryptocurrency.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 34 posts.
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The trillion-dollar lawsuit against Tether
Two Truths and a Take, Season 1 Episode 29
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SEC blocks the Telegram ICO – what this means, and what happens now
Telegram’s whole scheme was to skin precisely the retail buyers who securities registration is meant to protect from being ripped off.
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Open sourcing crypto-arbitrage bot in Python – back to the dawn of crypto hype
TLDR; Crypto-arbitrage bot code is released here - https://github.com/kruglov-dmitry/crypto_crawler. I can’t develop in c++ fast enough, not yet within golang sect, so have to use python. It was painfully educative fun. Chronicles of one crypto-arbitrage bot Some time ago friend of mine, innocent in terms of exposure…
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Better Encrypted Group Chat
Broadly, an end-to-end encrypted messaging protocol is one that ensures that only the participants in a conversation, and no intermediate servers, routers, or relay systems, can read and write messages. An end-to-end encrypted group messaging protocol is one that ensures this for all participants in a conversation of…
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Time, Randomness, and a $100k Prize to Forever Change Blockchain
Announcing an open source hardware competition to change how blocks (as in blockchain) are produced using far less energy. And on the way, finding a solution to move from proof of work to proof of stake.
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Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer
We've been restoring an Apollo Guidance Computer 1 . Now that we have the world's only working AGC, I decided to write some code for it. Try...
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RSA is a fragile cryptosystem
Here at Trail of Bits we review a lot of code. From major open source projects to exciting new proprietary software, we’ve seen it all. But one common denominator in all of these systems is that for some inexplicable reason people still seem to think RSA is a good cryptosystem to use. Let me save […]
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Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game
Libra is less about an immediate benefit to Facebook, and more about creating a world where companies like Facebook have the best chance to prosper. That is why Facebook gave up so much control.
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Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway
Today, we are excited to announce Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway, where you can interact with the Ethereum network without installing any software on your computer.
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Keybase and Stellar is live for everyone
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Medical records on the blockchain – the history of a bad idea
Patients having some sort of “control” over their own medical data is a perennial favourite blockchain pitch. We may have found the source.
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Reborn 3: Desktop browser with Web 3, faster VPN and ad blocker
Reborn 3 (Opera 60) was designed to improve people’s control over their privacy, security, and to give them access to Web 3, the Web of the future Hello, Today, we are launching Opera 60, codenamed Reborn 3. With this release, we believe we are setting a new standard for browsers. In our entire Reborn series, […]
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Keybase is not softer than TOFU
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Understanding the Stellar Consensus Protocol
What’s an agreement system? What makes one “Byzantine”? What makes a Byzantine one “federated”?
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Cryptographic coin flipping, now in Keybase
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency
MIT researchers developed a new cryptocurrency, Vault, that reduces data users need to join the network and verify transactions by up to 99 percent compared to Bitcoin and Ethereum.
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Blockchain and Trust
In his 2008 white paper that first proposed bitcoin, the anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto concluded with: “We have proposed a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust.” He was referring to blockchain, the system behind bitcoin cryptocurrency. The circumvention of trust is a great promise, but it’s just…