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Bitcoin Weekly 2015 December 9: Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto? At least Wired and Gizmodo think so
This week has seen a great deal going on in the Bitcoin community; however, what’s really dominating the news is yesterday’s investigative revelations by Wired and Gizmodo that out Craig Steven Wright as potentially (in part) Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin. The Bitcoin community has been rife with speculation and thoughts about the evidence presented and ...
Speedtest.net now allows users to check their Internet speeds using HTML5
For the detail-oriented Internet user, Speedtest.net has been the go-to for trying to determine if the service the ISP says you’re getting is what you’re getting has been a mainstay. For a long time now, the site has used Adobe Flash to accomplish that test, but the times they are a changing: now it’s possible ...
21 Bitcoin Computer Mechanical Turk concept previewed by Jeff Garzik
Jeff Garzik, Bitcoin core developer and luminary, just released a preview for a proof-of-concept “Mechanical Turk” using the 21 Bitcoin Computer and its discovery marketplace. The idea behind a Mechanical Turk system is to have small jobs offered that can be done by automating crowdsourcing the delivery of work and payment for work. When 21 ...
Apple officially open sources the Swift programming language compiler and tools
Earlier this year, Apple, Inc. promised to make its Swift programming language open source, and now that promise has come to fruition. Today, Apple released the first version of the Swift compiler and tools as open source, which means that interested developers can compile the compiler themselves (and look at its underlying code). The announcement ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 December 2: GAW Miners, ZenMiner and Josh Garza face SEC charges, G+ Bitcoin Community 3 years old, LibertyX BTC for cash and more
Last week had Black Friday hit the retail industry and Bitcoin Black Friday also came and went — but not without a little bit of a scandal, as it turns out the newly minted BitcoinBlackFriday.info website (not to be mistaken for BitcoinBlackFriday.com) was a scam. Keep reading for the follow-up on that now-unveiled con job. ...
Popcorn Time still under development in wake of recent troubles
Although suffering setbacks and developer woes (both legal and personal) movie and media pirate streamer software Popcorn Time appears to be on the path to resurrection. According to an article in Tech Times that cites a currently updating Reddit thread about the full relaunch of the product. The easy-to-use peer-to-peer pirate streaming software has proven ...
Fraud Alert: BitcoinBlackFriday.info comes on online aaaand it’s a scam
Last week an up and coming competitor to Jon Holmquist’s yearly BitcoinBlackFriday.com website appeared with the website BitcoinBlackFriday.info. The website looked slick, filled with information, animations, and a newsletter signup. The owner even sent out a press release earlier in Novemember so the site started getting picked up by news organizations (even SiliconANGLE). Although people ...
BitcoinBlackFriday.com now live with over 150 deals in bitcoin
If you haven’t checked it out yet, it’s time that you opened up BitcoinBlackFriday.com for the deals of the day when using bitcoin to shop. Beat the crowds, stampedes and broken hearts at brick and mortar stores by going the digital route. Today Bitcoin Black Friday, founded by Jon Holmquist, announced its fourth year of ...
It’s Black Friday: Do you know who is DDoSing your servers? And how to stop them.
Today is Black Friday in the U.S. a retail holiday where numerous, extravagant deals are revealed to a ravenous public. In the brick and mortar universe, this can become a free-for-all when shoppers will camp out for days in front of a store just to get in on the first deals. In the cyber universe ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 November 25: Coinbase Shift Card brings bitcoin to debit, Bitcoin.com forums AMA series, DDoS attacks on the rise
Looking to use your bitcoin like a debit card? Check out the Shift Card from Coinbase that lets you do exactly that, just announced this week, takes 4-7 days after registration to receive one. If you’re an AMA junkie then this Bitcoin Weekly will be your cup of tea. Roger Ver’s Bitcoin.com forums are hosting ...