Bitcoin in Brief Saturday: Forks and Fights
Apr07

Bitcoin in Brief Saturday: Forks and Fights

Bitcoin in Brief is your daily roundup of the stories that matter from the cryptosphere. Drama; in-fighting; hacks; humor; it’s all here. In today’s edition, Vitalik Buterin gets catty, Coinbase meets “coinbase”, and Tim Draper has an audacious suggestion for India. Also read: Help Wanted! Japan Needs Crypto Engineers Coinbase and “coinbase” Are Not the Same Thing Coinbase is a cryptocurrency...

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Is Ripple About to Become Another Ethereum?
Apr07

Is Ripple About to Become Another Ethereum?

For only the second time in its history, an attempt at tokenizing Ripple’s XRP ledger through an initial coin offering (ICO) is being seriously offered by a group not formally associated with the company. It’s an interesting juxtaposition for a project widely believed to be actively separating itself from the messiness of the cryptocurrency world. ICOs are an unintended use case, it turns out, for the legacy banking...

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Check Out Bitcoin.com’s Exclusive Video Interviews from Satoshi’s Vision Conference
Apr07

Check Out Bitcoin.com’s Exclusive Video Interviews from Satoshi’s Vision Conference

On March 23-25 in Tokyo Japan, the Satoshi’s Vision Conference took place with a view to promoting the worldwide adoption of bitcoin cash (BCH). The conference was the largest cryptocurrency-infused event to date and hundreds of people visited Tokyo to discuss BCH and on-chain scaling. Also read: Upgrade Time: Bitcoin Cash Plans a 32 MB Hard Fork Satoshi’s Vision Conference Spreading Bitcoin Cash Adoption and On-Chain...

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Not All Canadian ISPs Are Pro Site Blocking
Apr07

Not All Canadian ISPs Are Pro Site Blocking

Earlier this year several of the largest telcos in Canada teamed up with copyright holders to present their plan to tackle online piracy. United in the Fairplay coalition, Bell, Rogers, and others urged telecoms regulator CRTC to institute a national website blocking program. The Canadian blocklist should be maintained by a yet to be established non-profit organization called “Independent Piracy Review Agency” (IPRA) and...

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12 Git tips for Git's 12th birthday
Apr07

12 Git tips for Git's 12th birthday

Git, the distributed revision-control system that’s become the default tool for source code control in the open source world, turns 12 on April 7. One of the more frustrating things about using Git is how much you need to know to use it effectively. This can also be one of the more awesome things about using Git, because there’s nothing quite like discovering a new tip or trick that can streamline or improve your workflow....

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