Venezuela to Incorporate Bitcoin and Litecoin Wallets into National Remittances Platform
Venezuela says it will incorporate bitcoin and litecoin wallets to its Patria’s Cryptocurrency Remittance Platform. In an update, authorities in the country say this move will enable Venezuelan citizens to formally receive remittances in cryptocurrency form. Many citizens of hyperinflation hit Venezuela already use bitcoin as a store of value as well as for cross border payments. Plans of Adding Bitcoin-Petro Trading Pairs The formal...
US Govt’s Pirate Site List Doesn’t Prove Anything, YouTube Rippers Tell Court
RIAA’s takedown request, targeting the open source stream-ripper software youtube-dl, generated a lot of media interest. However, it’s just one of the many YouTube-ripping disputes. Over the past two years, for example, the operator of FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com has been fighting several record labels in US courts. For now, this battle has been limited to jurisdiction questions. The operator of the site, Tofig Kurbanov, is from Russia...
GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned
On October 23, 2020, the RIAA decided on action to stunt the growth and potentially the entire future of popular YouTube-ripping tool YouTube-DL. The music industry group filed a copyright complaint with code repository Github, demanding that the project be taken down for breaching the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA. While this was never likely to be well received by the hoards of people who support the software, the...
Top 10 Most Torrented Movies of The Week – 11/02/20
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. These torrent download statistics are meant to provide further insight into the piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources. This week we have four new entries in the list. The Amazon-exclusive Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, released two weeks ago, is the most downloaded moviefilm this week. The...
Create a list in a Flutter mobile app
Flutter is a popular open source toolkit for building cross-platform apps. In “Create a mobile app with Flutter,” I demonstrated how to install Flutter on Linux and create your first app. In this article, I’ll show you how to add a list of items in your app, with each item opening a new screen. This is a common design method for mobile apps, so you’ve probably seen it before, but here’s a screenshot to...
