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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Data platform Chainbeat integrates RSK Bitcoin smart contracts

Chainbeat, a platform providing real-time analytics for blockchain smart contracts, today announced it has integrated RSK, the first open-source smart contract platform powered by the Bitcoin network.

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Bitcoin Code to be Kept in Arctic Vault Facility

Bitcoin’s open-source code, at least its latest committed version, may be kept in a Svalbard vault, joining other projects in the GitHub Arctic Vault project. Satoshi’s Protocol Delivered to Svalbard Vault Bitcoin’s protocol, being an open-source project, is eligible to join thousands of other GitHub repositories in deep storage.

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Cypherpunk takes stake in bitcoin (BTC) based Wasabi Wallet

Cypherpunk, a company investing in technologies and protocols that enhance privacy, announced today that it has completed an equity investment in zkSnacks, whose products include the bitcoin (BTC) based Wasabi Wallet.

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Germany: Leading Airline Issues Blockchain-Enabled Air Ticket

In a press release issued on November 18, 2019, Germany-based Hahn Air announced that it had issued a real-world ticket enabled by blockchain technology on an open-source travel distribution platform named Winding Tree.

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Binance.US Adds Support for Proof-of-Stake Protocol Cryptocurrency QTUM

Binance cryptocurrency exchange’s U. S. -focused arm – Binance. US – on November 14, 2019, announced that it had added trading support for Qtum (QTUM) digital token. Binance. US Adds QTUM as 25th Cryptocurrency Open-source distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform QTUM is the latest cryptocurrency to be added to the Binance.

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With Open-Source Caravan Wallet, Unchained Wants to Make Multisig Mainstream

Unchained Capital has launched its Caravan bitcoin wallet, an open-source solution that wants to bring multisig security to the masses. The post With Open-Source Caravan Wallet, Unchained Wants to Make Multisig Mainstream appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.

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Korean crypto exchange Bithumb launching Bithumb Coin (BT)

Bithumb Global, a Korean bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange company, today officially announced its new native crypto-token, Bithumb Coin (BT). It will help power the company’s forthcoming Bithumb Chain.

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Aeternity (AE) Blockchain Project Announces LIMA hard fork from Ethereum Blockchain

Aeternity (AE), a next-generation open-source distributed ledger technology (DLT) network that claims to offer developers a robust platform for the creation of decentralized applications (dApps), has launched its LIMA hard fork, to provide AE miners with the most up to date software and entirely hand over governance to the community, according to a press releaseRead MoreRead More.

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Tezos (XTZ) Bags Listing on OKEx Cryptocurrency Exchange

In a press release issued on November 4, 2019, OKEx – the world’s largest futures cryptocurrency exchange – announced that it will list open-source blockchain platform Tezos’s digital token – XTZ. Tezos Marks its Debut on OKEx Tezos, an open-source distributed ledger technology (DLT) project with a global community of validators, researchers, and developers hasRead MoreRead More.

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Cryptoeconomic Systems Launched as Open-Source Journal and Conference

An open-source journal and conference, Cryptoeconomic Systems, is forthcoming from collaborators including MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative. The post Cryptoeconomic Systems Launched as Open-Source Journal and Conference appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.

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Winklevoss: Bitcoin Is More Than Digital Gold, BTC is a Source of Truth with Boundless Possibilities

Cameron Winklevoss, one of the famous Winklevoss’ twins, has recently talked about the potential of Bitcoin. According to him, BTC is far more than just digital gold. It is open-source software with almost limitless possibilities, in his opinion.

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Bitcoin Has “Boundless Possibilities”, Believes Cameron Winklevoss

Bitcoin (BTC) is much more than its market price, recently commented Cameron Winklevoss, one of the co-founders of the Gemini exchange. He also added that comparing BTC to gold is just a temporary milestone.

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ConsenSys Space Unveils Ethereum-Based Satellite Tracker 

ConsenSys Space, an arm of Ethereum venture studio ConsenSys that claims to be dedicated to building an open-source citizen-led space sustainability system, has joined forces with the Secure World Foundation, the Society of Women in Space Exploration, and others, to launch the TruSat satellite tracking app powered by the Ethereum blockchain, reports GeekWire on OctoberRead MoreRead More.

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Ripple (XRP) Venture Capital Arm Invest in Towo Labs 

XPring, an initiative by Ripple blockchain project which aims to invest in, incubate and provide grants to XRP-focused projects, has invested an undisclosed amount in Towo Labs, a project that develops open-source software that facilitates the integration of XRP into hardware wallets, according to a blog post on October 16, 2019.

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ConsenSys Grants Seven Ethereum Blockchain Projects $175k Each 

ConsenSys, a firm that claims to be focused on solving real-world problems with Ethereum blockchain solutions, is dishing out grants of $175,000 to seven credible open-source projects on the Ethereum network through its grants program.

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Hong Kong Free Press Fires BitPay Over Bitcoin Payment Delays

Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) has fired BitPay, a US-based bitcoin payment processing service, over non-service. The independent media firm announced today that it is going to replace BitPay with its rival BTCPay, an open-source alternative to pay merchants online via bitcoin.

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Hydro Labs tap OmiseGO’s Plasma Infrastructure to Eliminate Ethereum Congestion Woes

In an official announcement dated October 8, 2019, open-source distributed ledger technology (DLT) project Hydro Labs announced that it had partnered with cryptocurrency project OmiseGO (OMG) to use the latter’s plasma transaction infrastructure to do away with the Ethereum blockchain’s scalability woes.

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UNICEF Created Its Crypto Fund, Accepting Donations in Bitcoin and Ethereum

Coinspeaker UNICEF Created Its Crypto Fund, Accepting Donations in Bitcoin and EthereumUNICEF launched a cryptocurrency fund and is accepting donations in Bitcoin and Ethereum. The initiative has been rolled out to fund open-source technology benefiting children and young people around the world.

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Uruguay Cannabis Firm Adopts Aeternity (AE) Blockchain for Cannabis Tracking 

Aeternity (AE), an open-source distributed ledger technology (DLT) network powering decentralized applications (dApps), has inked a partnership deal with Uruguay Can, a Uruguay-based firm producing clinical and recreational cannabis.

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Factom launches new blockchain secure data storage service for business

Factom launches new blockchain secure data storage service for business - CryptoNinjas Factom Protocol, the open-source, enterprise-grade, developer-friendly blockchain protocol, today announced that one of its 26 Authority Node Operators (ANO) De Facto has launched a new product, Factom PRO.

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TronWallet Play desktop wallet adds bitcoin (BTC) support

TronWallet Play desktop wallet adds bitcoin (BTC) support - CryptoNinjas TronWallet Play, an open-source p2p desktop wallet platform for TRON (TRX), has announced support for bitcoin (BTC) in its latest release.

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Jack Dorsey’s Square Crypto To Invest $100,00 In The “Future Of Money”

The crypto initiative of payment company Square, Square crypto recently announced that they are allocating $100,000 on grants to the BTCPay Foundation. Square Crypto was founded to give back to the open-source bitcoin community.

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Square Crypto grants $100,000 to BTCPay foundation

Jack Dorsey’s Square Crypto, a Bitcoin payment processor recently announced that the company provided a grant to an open-source Bitcoin project. The BTC payment processor revealed on Twitter that it is providing BTCPay, an open-source payment processor with a grant worth $100,000.

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LocalBitcoins Claims Popular Anonymous Browser TOR Exposes Users To Threat Of Losing Crypto

Finnish p2p bitcoin trading platform LocalBitcoins is advising its users not to use free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communication called Tor. Using a Tor browser is not against LocalBitcoins' Terms of Service, even though it is has not been recommended for security reasons.

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FATF enforced Travel Rule on crypto exchanges can be eased up using CipherTrace framework TRISA

CipherTrace, a leading blockchain security solution provider introduced a new open-source Travel Rule Information Sharing Architecture (TRISA) to help crypto exchanges to comply with the FATF’s new “Travel Rule” requirements.

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Twitter CEO Says No To Creating ‘Twitcoin’ Cryptocurrency

Twitter’s Jack Dorsey says the world would be better served by an autonomous open-source currency like bitcoin rather than centralized projects owned by companies. No Chance of a ‘Twitter Cryptocurrency’ Speaking to The Sydney Morning Herald, the Twitter founder declared that he had no intention of creating a Twitter cryptocurrency.

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Factom Launches PegNet For Asset-to-Asset Trades

Factom Protocol, an open-source blockchain platform, has announced the launch of PegNet, a closely-connected network of tokens pegged to other assets, including Bitcoin, Gold, USD and EUR. The solution seeks to provide a fully auditable and non-custodial network for transferring value, simplifying the conversion process between one type of asset and the other.

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NULS Enterprise DLT Project and Aleph Zero Unveil ‘Staked Coin Output’

NULS (NULS), an open-source enterprise-grade distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform, has joined forces with Aleph Zero, a project that claims to be dedicated to helping blockchain protocols solve known problems.

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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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