Missed the Altcoin Craze? Don’t Worry, the Satoshi Is Still Very Cheap
When Satoshi Nakamoto designed bitcoin, his smartest trick wasn’t to cap the total supply at 21 million coins – it was to make each coin divisible to eight decimal places. There 100 million satoshis in one bitcoin. At the time, as now, the smallest unit of bitcoin was worth so little as to be inexpressible in fiat terms. But bitcoin’s creator had the foresight to recognize that if his fledgling cryptocurrency...
Playboy’s Copyright Lawsuit Threatens Online Expression, Boing Boing Argues
Early 2016, Boing Boing co-editor Xeni Jardin published an article in which she linked to an archive of every Playboy centerfold image till then. “Kind of amazing to see how our standards of hotness, and the art of commercial erotic photography, have changed over time,” Jardin commented. While the linked material undoubtedly appealed to many readers, Playboy itself took offense to the fact that infringing copies of their...
Open source software: 20 years and counting
Twenty years ago, in February 1998, the term “open source” was first applied to software. Soon afterwards, the Open Source Definition was created and the seeds that became the Open Source Initiative (OSI) were sown. As the OSD’s author Bruce Perens relates, “Open source” is the proper name of a campaign to promote the pre-existing concept of free software to business, and to certify licenses to a rule...
'Open source software' turns 20, new Firefox Quantum privacy features, and more news
In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup we cover the 20-year anniversary of the coining of the term “open source software,” the release of LibreOffice 6.0, and more. ‘Open source software’ turns 20 This week 20 years since Christine Peterson, co-founder and then-executive director of the Foresight Institute, coined the term “open source software.” For the first time ever, she...
January top articles and what's coming up next
January marks 8 years of Opensource.com, so it’s only fitting that we’d also set new record on the site. Opensource.com brought in 736,901 unique visitors who generated 1,202,182 page views in January, a new all-time record for both metrics. We published 85 articles last month, and welcomed 26 new authors. More than 62% of our content was contributed by members of the open source community, and our community moderators...
