Satoshis (the smallest unit of #bitcoin) just entered the Oxford English Dictionary: https://
"Natural gas venting: How Bitcoin solved a 160 year old problem": https://
Adding a German word list for standardized Bitcoin HD passphrases is more difficult than you'd think: https://
Who controls Bitcoin Core? TL;DR: nobody. https://
Happy 10th anniversary, Bitcoin! http://
If Coinbase sponsors OpenCollective, why can I still not make a one-time donation using bitcoin? It's the easiest thing to implement, compared to any other payment option. And it's literally open-source money, based entirely on free software.
You think cryptos are crashing hard, because the bitcoin bubble is bursting? Perhaps consider the bloodbath in international stock markets over the last days, losing $4 trillion in about a week: https://
Please disregard my earlier post about Visa for now. Turns out all those bitcoin companies giving out debit cards were using the same issuer, and that company was not complying with Visa security rules. https://
TIL: "Smart contracts for RSK are written using Solidity [...] and are fully compatible with Ethereum Smart Contracts, so you can migrate your existing Ethereum Smart Contract to RSK Smart without doing any changes." https://
Interesting perspective on the "but bitcoin was supposed to be p2p cash" argument: cash is actually a bearer instrument with direct p2p settlement (not going through any validators like banks etc.). Kind of like handing around a signed transaction, e.g. in Lightning Network.
In where Bitcoin Cash, a supposedly "fully decentralized" blockchain, has someone calling themselves the CEO. 🤔 https://
Just in case you missed it last week: the Bitcoin blockchain is now being sent to Earth from satellites, so you can build local payment infrastructure without having to pay for the many gigs of data per month, that are required to be downloaded these days for running a fully validating node: https://
Simply amazing.
"We must be able to measure blockchain decentralization before we can improve it": https://
So far, the only companies having asked me to update my credentials in light of Cloudbleed, are all Bitcoin services. Thanks, Mt. Gox!
3rd day in CNX and already found the weekly Bitcoin meetup. Plus free kung-fu training beforehand: https://
The Swiss railway company SBB will start selling BTC on their ticket machines in November: https://
The Halvening is a live monitor for the Bitcoin block reward halving (ETA: Saturday): http://
And here's the Bitcoin community's Hillary-Clinton-promises-you-whatever-you-want-to-hear moment: http://
In case you wondered if Bitcoin miners are all dickheads: http://