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It will take 21 years for the rest of the world to mine as much of the Chia (XCH) cryptocurrency as the company behind it will have on the day its mainnet launches next month.“We believe that chia, a new digital currency built on our new blockchain with radically different
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The Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance (COPA) is striking back against a cease-and-desist order sent by nChain Chief Scientist Craig Wright with a counter-requirement of their own: First, prove you’re Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of the white paper. Source
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More sites are hosting Bitcoin's founding white paper since Craig Wright's threatened copyright infringement lawsuit. Source
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The document that started it all, in audio form.This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.For this week’s Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads the document that started it all – the Bitcoin White Paper. Interestingly, this document was released under an MIT open-source license, available free to all.Image credit: Emir Hoyman/Getty Images
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The Bitcoin community is debating the extent to which Bitcoin Core developers and maintainers should shoulder the symbolic burden of hosting its white paper, particularly when doing so could unnecessarily sap their time and finances.The question arose after the Bitcoin white paper was taken down from Bitcoincore.org, a canonical repository
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“I’ve been working on a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party.” Those were the words pseudonymous Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto used to greet the world some twelve years ago in an email releasing the Bitcoin white paper. To this day, nobody still knows who he/she/they
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“We will continue hosting the Bitcoin whitepaper and won’t be silenced or intimidated. Others hosting the whitepaper should follow our lead in resisting these false allegations.”So said Bitcoin.org, an an independent open-source project that aims to support bitcoin development, in a response on Thursday to an attempt by nChain chief
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In today’s digital world, most people prefer cashless transactions to a cash payment and this is the reason why cryptocurrencies have become extremely popular among people all across the world. Way back in 2009, the introduction of the first major digital currency “Bitcoin”, transformed the financial sector. Ever since its
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This is an opinion. Felicity Huffman has a new job. The actress, who booked the job just over a year after her Federal prison stint, will star in a new ABC comedy. While Huffman is acting like nothing ever happened, other high-profile women — especially Black women, and women of color — aren’t
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Has it only been a dozen years since Oct. 31, 2008, that Satoshi Nakamoto published a modest nine-page paper describing a new online payments system called “Bitcoin?” Depending on where one stands, that pseudonymous white paper — its author(s) remain unidentified — fostered either a fintech revolution or, as some
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