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The Bitcoin Game #2 - Factom
October 27th, 2014 by
Rob Welcome to episode number two of The Bitcoin Game. I'm your host, Rob Mitchell. In this episode I talk to Peter Kirby about Factom, a distributed application that functions as a scalable permanent system of record. We also talk about the Texas Bitcoin Conference, and finally, discuss the price and value of Bitcoin. Listen for the magic word, and submit it to your LetsTalkBitcoin.com account to claim your share of the weekly distribution of LTBcoin. The magic word must be submitted within fo... Read More -
Everything I Need to Know About Bitcoin Trading, I Learned from Game of Thrones
October 25th, 2014 by
helloluis Trading on Bitcoin order-book exchanges can be a daunting task, a Meereenese knot of technical jargon, complex user interfaces, and more graphs than you can shake a Greyjoy sausage at. Read More -
Chain Wars: Kinaree Unmasked
October 21st, 2014 by
mdw The Chain Wars saga continues as former chain lord Tine kills Naga Sib and meets its creator, her mysterious sponsor. Read More -
Permacredits Episode 1: Conner's Life in the Colony Earth Development
October 17th, 2014 by
permacredits This is the first in a series of short stories highlighting what life is like in Colony Earth Corp., a member-owned lifestyle corporation that builds exquisite living environments that run on Permacredits. Read More -
Introducing Rebittance.org
October 16th, 2014 by helloluis Over the past two months, our Bitcoin startup out of the Philippines has been [quietly pushing the term rebittance to describe a style of Bitcoin-powered money transfer](http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/09/28/rise-rebittance-reinventing-money-transfers-philippines-bitcoin/) that begins with BTC and ends with local fiat currency. On October 14, we launched the first version of [an informational one-pager that explains how it works](http://rebittance.org) and how it compares with traditional bank-to-bank money transfer. Read More -
The Bitcoin Game #1 - Southern California Job Fair
October 15th, 2014 by Rob Welcome to the first episode of The Bitcoin Game. I was fortunate that Dan Roseman of the Bitcoin job board Coinality.com, decided to bring his Bitcoin Job Fair to Southern California on October 4th, 2014. The event was held at the Plug And Play Tech Center in Santa Monica. In this podcast you'll hear interviews with principal members of four Bitcoin businesses that were hiring at the job fair (there were many more than just these four!). I started with a quick chat with ExpressCoin CEO Will ... Read More -
Investing in Fantasy Is Reality!
October 15th, 2014 by
therealtwig Imagine you are watching your favorite [ESPN Fantasy Football analyst Matthew Berry](http://espnmediazone.com/us/bios/berry_matthew/) discuss his picks for successful players to start in your lineup. You are so enamored by his analysis that you decide to check out his fantasy team online. You see that he is in first place, he has a team you believe to be great, and he is routinely scoring more points than anyone else in the league each week. Below his team name, you see a button that invites you to invest in his team. . . . Read More -
Erik Voorhees Explains Why Some Bitcoin Companies Are Blocking American Users
October 14th, 2014 by
kyletorpey Although Americans generally believe that they live in the home of free markets, the United States’ role as a leader of economic freedom has been declining for decades. The United States ranked 12th on the latest version of the Heritage Foundation’s economic freedom index and is now relegated to the designation of “mostly free.” The myth of unbridled economic freedom in America is being exposed by Bitcoin. Read More -
Chain Wars: Tine Attack
October 13th, 2014 by mdw This is part two of a series called Chain Wars. It started last week with this double length intro: http://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/chain-wars-the-worm
Tine van der Hoeff was an expert in keeping next generation blockchains running. But she was lured away on an important task by an unknown patron. Working with her friend Theo, she plans to attack the chain worm, Naga Sib.
Tine understood how important it was for humans to maintain control over their technology. She knew that humans set the rules for the chain when the code was launched. Surely, she thought, better chain design could prevent chain infections from happening.
Some parts of the Naga Sib codebase remained mysterious, including the instruction set for building the next generation. Many of its secrets were hidden in a big binary blob, from which both parts of the worm could be made. It was not clear how to extract the information from that binary hunk of code, but it contained the digital DNA of the chain worm.
Tine's current goal was to figure out how it worked and how to conquer it. She would kill both halves of this at the same time. Then she intended to find out who was behind Naga Sib, and why.
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