ALICIA DEFENDS A FELLOW LAWYER WHO REFUSES TO REVEAL THE IDENTITY OF HIS MYSTERIOUS CLIENT TO THE GOVERNMENT, ON “THE GOOD WIFE” SUNDAY, JAN. 15 Jason Biggs (“American Pie”) Guest Stars as Alicia’s Latest Client, And Carrie Preston (“True Blood”) Returns as Elsbeth Tascioni CHEAT TWEET: Who will take the fall when Kalinda is...
Tell us about BitMit in one line and what motivated you to create the site. Bitmit a site on which people from all over the world can sell and buy their goods – with Bitcoin. I want to reduce the need of exchanging bitcoin to a regular currency. Why does bitcoin need merchant sites?...
Cue flame war and enraged comments that usually follow comments of this type. Eventhough saying that bitcoin does not require the internet to survive sounds ludicrous, it is not as unreasonable as it sounds at first glance. In our glossary, bitcoin simultaneously means multiple things at the same time. Idea Bitcoin is the concept...
Imagine an internet where every packet is cryptographically protected from source to destination against espionage and forgery, getting an IP address is as simple as generating a cryptographic key, core routers move data without a single memory look up, and DDoS is a term read about in history books. The cost of frivolous legal...
Caring brother informs us that we should be using credit cards to fit in with society and not be marginalised. I always knew I was special!
Vanitygen is a tool which allows you to generate personalised bitcoin addresses. $ ./vanitygen 1Boat Difficulty: 4476342 Pattern: 1BRMLAB Address: 1BRMLAB7nryYgFGrG8x9SYaokb8r2ZwAsX Privkey: 5J4XJRyLVgzbXEgh8VNi4qovLzxRftzMd8a18KkdXv4EqAwX3tS FirstBits is a scheme (with a website) where you lookup bitcoin addresses based on the first few unique characters. It checks the bitcoin blockchain (database of network’s transactions) to find the...
Mageant says: Bitcoin will be ready for mainstream adoption when…. 1) There are trusted wallet service websites. IMHO the exchanges are the best candidates for this. They are basically already doing this with their websites. They have their exchange business to lose, so no incentive to just run away with the customer’s bitcoins. Bitcoin.com...
Here is a video explaining the general principles behind the concepts used in libbitcoin. It is a video on using callback driven proactors for general asynchronous programming using bitcoin as a case-study. libbitcoin is an async toolkit that uses std::bind and std::function for implementing the proactor pattern. No blocking is a rule.
Science & technology are neutral. The atom bomb can take us to new worlds or wipe entire countries off the earth. Science & technology are neither hostile, nor benign. A hammer can equally be used for creating superb carpentry or for monstrous acts. Bitcoin is neutral technology. To blame disagreeable use on this new...
Jamison is an artist that collects vintage junk and sells them on eBay for a living. While in Prague he was hanging around the hackerspace and would catch odd words from me and everyone discussing about bitcoin. He would ask questions constantly and I’d try to give a quick answer (being busy), and just...
I have written up a BIP to serve as a starting point for discussion into the possibility of aliases in bitcoin. For those not in the know: BIPs (Bitcoin Improvement Proposals) are the standardisation process for changes to bitcoin. Starting in January BIP_0014 will be formally adopted, which means all changes to the bitcoin...
Molecular and worldly just finished up the first video by Sergey Kurtsex of Imcex with a proposal for decentralising bitcoin exchanges. There is a good discussion thread with comments. One side argues that decentralising exchanges is important, while the other says it isn’t a worry while no coercion to use a particular exchange exists....
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