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MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative Raises $4M for Effort to ‘Harden’ Bitcoin
Prominent backers include CoinShares’ Meltem Demirors, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor.
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Feb 28, 2021 at 4:19 p.m. UTC
Feb 28, 2021
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Dogecoin's Surging Price Has Resurrected Its Technical Development
Wow! After such price rise, Dogecoin’s developers have much coding to do.
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Colin Harper
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Feb 10, 2021 at 10:16 p.m. UTC
Feb 10, 2021
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Bitcoin Developer Fund Brink Secures Tax-Exempt Status
U.S. bitcoiners can now make tax-exempt donations to fund Bitcoin development.
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Colin Harper
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Feb 10, 2021 at 5:27 p.m. UTC
Feb 10, 2021
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Unlike the Early Web, Crypto Does Not Need State Patronage
Blockchain doesn't need ARPANET-type government support. But co-ordination and collective action are vital to avoid duplication of effort.
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Luke Stokes
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Feb 6, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. UTC
Feb 6, 2021
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Here's How to Inspect Bitcoin's Next (Likely) Major Upgrade Yourself
With bitcoin’s next likely major upgrade in the works, students of the cryptocurrency can inspect the code themselves, helped by core developers.
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Alyssa Hertig
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Feb 13, 2020 at 3:28 p.m. UTC
Feb 13, 2020
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Bitcoin Cash Miners Propose Controversial Soft Fork for Zcash-Style Development Fund
The proposed fork will see 12.5 percent of block rewards diverted to a new BCH-specific development fund. Reactions have been mixed.
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Paddy Baker
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Jan 23, 2020 at 12:30 p.m. UTC
Jan 23, 2020
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Tata's IT Arm Says Its New Toolkit Will Enable Faster Blockchain App Development
Tata Consultancy Services has launched a new blockchain developers' kit that it claims will make building apps 40 percent faster.
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Daniel Palmer
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Dec 16, 2019 at 12:56 p.m. UTC
Dec 16, 2019
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Litecoin
As Crypto Markets Go Cold, Who Will Pay for Open-Source Code?
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Daniel Cawrey
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Sep 5, 2019 at 4:00 a.m. UTC
Sep 5, 2019
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Silent No More: Ethereum Users Spurn Recovery Code
Community members have taken to Github to express their discontent over a controversial proposal for lost fund recovery.
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Rachel-Rose O'Leary
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Feb 16, 2018 at 1:05 p.m. UTC
Feb 16, 2018
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Bitcoin Devs Release Long-Awaited Schnorr Paper for Scalability Gains
Bitcoin devs have released the first paper on the Schnorr multi-signature protocol, which, if implemented, would increase bitcoin block sizes.
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Nikhilesh De
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Jan 18, 2018 at 10:45 p.m. UTC
Jan 18, 2018
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