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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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Darkcoin Anonymity Fully Functional and Open Source; Instant Transactions on the Way
October 8th, 2014 by
fernando Today I provide more detail on DarkSend, the name of Darkcoin's anonymity feature, and sketch the next amazing use of masternodes -- instant transactions. Read More -
Beyond Bitcoin - 17 - Counterpartying With Robby Dermody
October 7th, 2014 by
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Bitcoins and Gravy Episode #36: Airbitz.co & OpenBazaar.org
October 6th, 2014 by
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Independence Bancshares Studying Virtual Currencies
October 5th, 2014 by
bcohen [Independence Bancshares](http://www.independencenb.com/) - a publicly traded (albeit [thinly](http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=IEBS+Historical+Prices) on the OTC:QX), FDIC-insured, community-based bank in Greenville, South Carolina - seemed poised to become the first bank in the United States to embrace Bitcoin payments, according to three patents published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. However, after speaking with Chief Executive Officer Gordon Baird, Let's Talk Bitcoin has learned that Independence Bancshares has clearly distanced themselves from Bitcoin, but is "studying virtual currencies." Read More -
On Singularity - Part 2: Decentralized Autonomous ... Human Beings
October 5th, 2014 by
ry.walk While the significance of putting a man on the moon is obvious, what is often lost is an appreciation for the enormity of prior achievements and the conditions required to make it possible. The establishment of the nation-state as a societal structure unleashed the untapped potential of collectively incentivized human action. Had it not been for its existence, how many more centuries may have been required for mankind to reach such literal and figurative heights? Akin to the establishment of the nation-state, the ascension of decentralized autonomy may further catalyze collective human action to even greater levels of achievement, including the reaches of singularity. Read More -
Chain Wars: The Worm
October 4th, 2014 by mdw It all started when a decentralized app called Naga Sib, running on the NetherChain, got out of control. These autonomous entities could be coded to prioritize self-preservation, even if that meant bad consequences for others. Naga Sib was no ordinary app. It was designed for trouble. How easily we lose control of our technologies when we're not careful. Read More
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