Following on from last year's bitcoin2012, the organisers have announced a new conference. unSYSTEM
Following on from last year's bitcoin2012, the organisers have announced a new conference. unSYSTEM
Following on from last year's bitcoin2012, the organisers have announced a new conference. unSYSTEM
We are on the verge of revolution. A revolution that will make the industrial revolution seem trivial. We stand at the focus, the cumulation, the precipice, of a fundamental re-thinking of our shared social fabric. Actions today will reverberate for centuries. Technologies like bitcoin evince prophecy. We understand the past, to understand the present....
Bitcoin this week has seen a sleuth of media articles regarding Bitcoin euro volume: ZDNet: Bitcoin safer than the euro? Motherboard: With Euro Instability, Can Bitcoin Now Compete with Hard Currency? BetaBeat: Bitcoin Gets a Boost From Euro Crisis Business Insider: And Now Europeans Are Dumping Euros For Bitcoin Sweet Vociferation: Euro fears boost...
c-base is holding a day on p2p technologies on the 11th. From 20:00 will be the section on Bitcoin. If you want to do a talk, then email me (genjix@riseup.net) and I’ll add you to the schedule. 11th May (Friday) at 20:00. For help, you can call +49 1577 1826 806. View Larger Map
Here is a graph of the historical market volume. If we compare this to the historical price, we see there is not really any causal link between them. Therefore, drawing tenuous links between is risky without evidence. If you look closely at the graph, you will see a red and green line. The green...
“The future of sexuality is here, and boy it’s predictably sad and weird: girls stripping for Bitcoin tips, a virtual currency that’s not really worth anything. Start mining yer coins, boys! Welcome to GirlsGoneBitcoin.” ~ Gizmodo It’s easy to miss the true value here. There is an inherent complexity in understanding a decentralised form...
Another mundane day to day example of how trusting external services leaves you open to abuse. Props to Riseup collective for operating these services and the foundational work they are doing in various areas. Although this time, the server had no data on it, it could well have. And then the FBI would have...
Laybit have created an interesting system where users can micro donate, and if they have javascript disabled it will fallback to Bitcoin URI links. At Laybit people are able to make “pretty” image links, and tip content owners via them. They can even make QR-code so they can tip content owners in the real...
Jeff Garzik pointed out that Bitcoin-Qt no longer operates using the IRC bootstrap, and on inspection he’s right. This mainly applies to older versions of bitcoin. Bitcoin-Qt maintains an internal list of nodes it can try to connect to when you start it up. It randomly picks IP addresses from this list and tries...
Four months ago I wanted to read a science paper on Ada Lovelace. As a non-academic, all the download sites were behind paywalls where I had to pay $60 or more. And this is not the first time either – I often want to read journals in medicine or physics but can’t. I am...
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