BitHub Pays Open-Source Developers in Bitcoin
Privacy software provider WhisperSystems has announced that it is integrating bitcoin with open-source code hosting site GitHub to launch a new service, Bithub. This service will offer the company's developers an easy and fair way to fund their work on its open-source security systems. WhisperSystems runs multiple free encryption applications for storage, messaging and calls on both Apple and Android platforms. Once such application, TextSecure, replaces a device's default messaging service so that SMS messages sent and received by the user are encrypted. All the company's applications are....
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Open-source software projects are starting to use bitcoins as a way to pay programmers for their work. Open-source software is developed under a license that enables anyone to view and modify its source code. Many commercial projects use open-source code, and popular software such as Linux is based on it. Although most open-source developers volunteer, there has also been a growing tradition of bounty sites, which will pay open-source developers for their help in developing software. These sites have used traditional currencies. Now, Bitcoin Bounties has a system that will enable....
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Space Kenya Networks Limited, a Kenyan web development company, recently announced the launch of its blockchain incubator BitHub. CCN spoke with the director of Space Networks Kenya and founder of BitHub to discuss the crypto- and bitcoin-space in Kenya. In a statement found on the website, BitHub describes its mission as: “Solving problems using innovative Blockchain solutions that are currently under development across the World.” Furthermore, the company says:” We believe that blockchain solutions will make substantial contributions to rethinking existing structures in the following....