$10 Billion in BTC Reserves: Companies With Bitcoin Treasuries Command Close to 4% of the Supply
The web portal bitcointreasuries.org now shows close to two dozen firms with a large number of bitcoin reserves. Currently, the aggregate total bitcoin held in reserves by the 23 companies listed is roughly 785,999 BTC worth well over $10 billion dollars. This past August the billion-dollar firm Microstrategy announced it purchased 21,454 BTC for around $250 million. Then the Nasdaq listed company bought another 16,796 BTC and...
Twitch DMCA “Bloodbath” Trades Copyright Strikes For Due Process
During the summer there was uproar when Twitch users were suddenly bombarded with copyright notices for content uploaded between 2017 to 2019. Unsurprisingly, the claimant was listed as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), an organization well-known for its aggressive stance towards those who use its member labels’ content without obtaining an appropriate license. Aside from the notices themselves, the greater problem...
Pirated Screeners of ‘Falling’ and ‘My Salinger Year’ Leak Online Early
Pirated copies of movies leak all year round, often ripped from DVDs, Blu-rays or online streaming platforms. That by itself is nothing special. However, when the days are getting shorter, pirates start anticipating another release category: screeners. Screeners are advance copies of recent movies that are generally sent out to critics and awards voters. Some of these end up in the hands of pirates and are published online, with the...
How to influence people to join open source
If you are reading Opensource.com, you might be able to code, and you are probably reading this on an open source browser on some elusive Linux distro. You probably have not seen a browser ad in years because you are running an open source ad blocker. You feel warm and fuzzy when you think about penguins. read more Powered by...
5 steps to learn any programming language
Some people love learning new programming languages. Other people can’t imagine having to learn even one. In this article, I’m going to show you how to think like a coder so that you can confidently learn any programming language you want. read more Powered by...
