EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Whit Jack OpalCoin Lead Dev
OpalCoin started as a privacy-minded cryptocurrency, utilising stealth addresses to preserve anonymity. OpalCoin soon entered the Bitcoin 2.0 arena with DriveShare, a decentralised file-sharing application. Now the Opal team appears focused mostly on DApps; we sat down with lead developer Whit Jack to get the latest details. Andrew Wagner: So, tell us about your background. Why did you choose to start Opalcoin? Whit Jack: Well, I was originally brought onto Opal as an altcoin dev-for-hire. But I ended up falling in love with the Opal community, and I decided to stay, and Opal became my....
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We have prepared an exclusive interview with Professor Emin Gün Sirer, a revered and highly educated personality in the digital currencies sphere since its beginning. His work has been on our agenda for quite some time now and we were looking forward to get an exclusive approach with him; his remarkable work in peer-to-peer technology and the hacking scene has not come unnoticed. Also, his articles over the digital currency field are indeed a reference. He has been in the front of Bitcoin discussion and his opinion is of great importance for the community. Now, for the interview:
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The community supporting OpalCoin, an anonymous cryptocurrency offering decentralized storage, was recently under siege of a fake-wallet attack. A hacker stole almost 17% of the coin supply, most of which has been recovered. The Opal team announced the hack on the Bitcoin Talk forums on December 15th. The hacker spread a fake-wallet virus through the forums. The Opal team had recently posted a legitimate link on the BitcoinTalk forums to the download to their latest client. Diabanhxeo, the hacker’s profile name (ID# 210031), quoted the link on a post, but changed the link to a malicious....
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