High-Quality Piracy Boosts Box Office Revenues in Opening Week, Research Finds
The vast body of academic piracy research has shown that illegal downloading can affect legal revenues in a variety of ways. Many studies have focused on a negative effect, but there are positive links as well. How piracy interacts with sales often differs from situation to situation. These finer nuances are intriguing and important to obtain a better understanding of the piracy phenomenon. With a newly published study, researchers...
How to use printf to format output
When I started learning Unix, I was introduced to the echo command pretty early in the process. Likewise, my initial Python lesson involved the print function. Picking up C++ and Java introduced me to cout and systemout. It seemed every language proudly had a convenient one-line method of producing output and advertised it like it was going out of style. read more Powered by...
Our favorite open source writing tools
Writing is one of the primary ways we communicate, and it’s endlessly fascinating to see the different ways writers work. I can hardly imagine writing before computers and their ability to instantly edit and rearrange the words I’ve typed onto a screen. Likewise, I wonder whether people who started out writing on a typewriter process their thoughts differently, even on a modern word processor, or whether their workflow has...
Fusing With Whales: Cashfusion Privacy Mixing Expands Allowing 10x Bigger Coins
On August 11, 2020, the Electron Cash developer Jonald Fyookball announced that Cashfusion tiers have been expanded to allow 10x bigger coins to be fused. The announcement got the Bitcoin Cash community excited to “fuse with whales,” as the increase has been upped from 0.82 BCH to 8.2 BCH. Cashfusion is a type of coin mixing service, offering wallet providers and others a way to join coins together for increased privacy....
Ternio’s ERC-20 TERN Token Listed On Global Crypto Exchange Bibox
ATLANTA, GA – August 10, 2020 – Ternio’s ERC-20 payment token TERN, has been listed by global cryptocurrency exchange, Bibox. This news comes two months after Ternio’s announcement that they would be burning ten percent of the TERN supply, previously hosted on the Stellar Network, and making it available as an ERC-20 asset. Since the Ethereum based coins were first migrated in June, they have been listed on...
