What Is Gitian Building? How Bitcoin’s Security Processes Became a Model for the Open Source Community
One of Bitcoin's most important security features, a crucial property that makes the system trustless, is its open source nature. Because Bitcoin’s code is open source, anyone able to read code can check for themselves whether it does what it's supposed to do. Plus, as per Linus's Law: Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. But open source code....
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Mozilla, the open-source development community behind the popular Firefox web browser, is now accepting bitcoin donations. The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit entity that provides support for the community's broad open-source development, will be partnering with Coinbase to accept bitcoin contributions. The California-based bitcoin services provider announced the deal on its blog, where it reinforced that, per its policies toward charities, it will not charge fees for the donations it processes. With the news, Mozilla joins the growing number of non-profit organizations that support....