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Craig Wright Called ‘Fraud’ in Message Signed With Bitcoin Addresses He Claims to Own
25.5.2020
Bitcoin keys from coins Wright claims to own were used to sign a message calling him a "fraud."
Devising the Cloak of Invisibility in JavaScript
25.5.2020
Steganography. The art of hiding something right under your nose. For as long as humans have been alive, we’ve been trying to hide things — whether it’s our last slice of pizza or the location of a buried treasure. Do you remember the cool invisible lemon ink trick, where we’d write the secret...
First Mover: Bitcoin Rally Sends Message to Capitalists as Despair on Wall Street Grows
18.5.2020
Bitcoin's recent price rally and industry optimism contrast with the downbeat tone in the U.S. stock market. Even Visa's CEO says digital currencies could be "additive to the payments ecosystem."
‘History Has Repeated’: F2Pool Explains Message in Last Block Before Bitcoin Halving
13.5.2020
F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun tells Consensus: Distributed why he chose a $2.3T NY Times headline for Bitcoin's last block before the halving
Is This 1999 Forum Message from a Young Satoshi Nakamoto?
20.4.2020
Have internet users uncovered the young Satoshi Nakamoto – developing the concepts he would later immortalize forever in the Bitcoin (BTC) white paper?
The white paper was published in October 2008, but internet users appear to have recently unearthed a post on the Cypherpunks cryptography forum...
Can Blockchain Technology Counter US Anti-Message Encryption Bill?
19.3.2020
The bill proposed by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee attacks encryption of online messages, says the EFF
Ripple Boss Brad Garlinghouse Posts Heartfelt Message on Twitter
19.3.2020
The novel Coronavirus has taken the world by storm, claiming almost 9,000 deaths out of the total 221,000 positive cases. What was initially thought to be an epidemic outbreak in China has become a pandemic that has gripped at least 176 countries across the inhabited world. Since the time COVID-19...
How to Set a Default Commit Message
2.3.2020
Having a default commit message is really useful for a number of reasons: It can formalize your commit messages It serves as a good reminder for the information you should add to your commit message, like issue number If you set it to “Drunk AF, don’t accept this” To set a default...
Ross Ulbricht Clemency Petition Gathers 250,000 Signatures
7.12.2019
On Friday, the Clemency for Ross Ulbricht petition hosted on Change.org surpassed 250,000 signatures. The solicitation for signatures started in July 2018 and gathered roughly 6,200 signatures during the first three days. Now with a quarter of a million signatures asking U.S. President Donald Trump...
Singapore's Message to Crypto Derivative Traders + More Crypto News
20.11.2019
Source: iStock/Jui-Chi Chan
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Regulation news
Singapore’s financial regulator has proposed green-lighting crypto-token derivatives...
Bitcoin History Part 19: Wikileaks and the Hornet’s Nest
7.11.2019
“WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet’s nest, and the swarm is headed towards us.” With those 13 words, Satoshi Nakamoto stepped into oblivion, leaving a blizzard of unanswered questions that would enshroud his disappearance. That ominous message was to prove his penultimate forum...
Comparing the Different Types of Native JavaScript Popups
31.10.2019
JavaScript has a variety of built-in popup APIs that display special UI for user interaction. Famously:
alert("Hello, World!");
The UI for this varies from browser to browser, but generally you’ll see a little window pop up front and center in a very show-stopping way that contains the message...
Agorism and Bitcoin: Free People Don’t Ask Maxine Waters for Permission
30.8.2019
Anti-agorism Congressional Representative Maxine Waters still has misgivings about Facebook’s proposed Libra digital currency, even after meeting with Swiss government officials to discuss the tech last week. The sustained reservations echo the message of July’s open letter from...
Samsung Adds Bitcoin Support to Its Blockchain Keystore
15.8.2019
On August 13, Samsung, the South Korean multinational conglomerate, published the company’s new Blockchain Keystore SDK for developers and the latest release supports Bitcoin Core (BTC). The version follows Samsung’s previous Keystore release which only supported ETH and the ERC20...
Collective #537
1.8.2019
The Real Dark Web * A Message to GitHub * Truths about digital accessibility * What I Like About Vue
Collective #537 was written by Pedro Botelho and published on Codrops
Fetching Data in React using React Async
1.8.2019
You’re probably used to fetching data in React using axios or fetch. The usual method of handling data fetching is to:
Make the API call.
Update state using the response if all goes as planned.
Or, in cases where errors are encountered, an error message is displayed to the user.
There will always...
Buy Airline Vouchers With BCH From Flightgiftcard
25.6.2019
It’s the season of travel and if you want to surprise someone with a trip, you can now do it using cryptocurrencies like bitcoin cash (BCH). Flightgiftcard.com is a Dutch website that allows you to order airline vouchers and send them to your friends and family with a personal message. Also...
Traders Are Now Banned From Using Localbitcoins Exchange in Iran
24.5.2019
Traders from Iran have been banned from using the peer-to-peer trading platform Localbitcoins.com within the country. The Iranian section of the website displays a short message that states that the exchange is “currently not available.” The news follows significant Iranian rial trade...
Anchor a Document or File to the BCH Chain With Notary.Bitcoin.com
19.5.2019
In my last article, I explained how to prove ownership of a specific address by signing a message with a public and private key pair. That’s just one way of proving ownership and verifying a valid signature, as BCH users can also anchor a document to the chain using the Bitcoin Cash...
How to Prove Ownership With a Bitcoin Cash Address and Digital Signature
18.5.2019
Bitcoin is an amazing form of money and the technology Satoshi created has incredible potential. However, most people don’t realize that the blockchain not only allows for a great medium of exchange, but it also provides the means for creating notarized proofs. The following walkthrough aims...