Popcorntime Now Accepting In-App Bitcoin Donations
Popcorntime Community Edition, The most recent of Popcorntime’s open-source reincarnations, is up in full force, and the developers are accepting bitcoin donations for their trouble. The torrent streaming application that changed the way many people pirate their cinematic content, has been DMCA’d, taken down from GitHub, and changed homepages and repos so many times that decentralization is being explored by the devs to solve their systemic problems. Popcorntime Embraces Decentralization. Its inconsistent version control has also spawned some proprietary clones and malware in disguise,....
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Burning Man, the organization best known for its annual week-long celebration of cutting-edge culture in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, has announced it is accepting bitcoin donations to extend its reach. While ticket sales to the 'Black Rock City' event generally cover production costs, donations will help cover Burning Man's growing year-round program of other activities, including Global Art Grants program, the Big Art for Small Towns program and art honorariums. Donations will be processed through Coinbase. Burning Man CEO Marian Goodell said: "Donations will help provide more grants,....