A Glimpse Into XCurrency’s Mission to ‘Decentralize Everything’
Last week, CoinTelegraph received a press release from XCurrency that said its developers were working on architecture for a distributed, blockchain-based web that got my attention — primarily because the release announced XCurrency’s team will soon create the first such web 3.0 application. XCurrency on its own is an exciting technology for many people (as the nearly 1,200 pages on its Bitcointalk.org thread demonstrate), so I reached out to the team’s lead developer, Dan Metcalf, to get a better understanding what XCurrency was poised to create. “In its current state, [the internet] is....
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Less than two weeks after we reported on XCurrency’s trustless mixing service, the currency’s developers on Wednesday announced plans to form a corporation, sell shares and submit its code to outsider scrutiny to see whether anyone can break through its privacy features. First, the corporation: XC, Inc.’s formation will allow the currency’s team to participate in the commercial projects necessary to realize its vision of a distributed Web 3.0, which we covered earlier this month. “[I]n order to do so, XCurrency will need to function as a licensed public entity, and thus will be registered....
The project is intended to decentralize identity, much like Bitcoin decentralized money.
As Bitcoin had an ambitious dream to decentralize currency, MaidSafeCoin has an ambitious dream to decentralize the internet. The coin is only half the story, it is to be used in tandem with the SAFE (Secure Access For Everyone) network. Why should we decentralize Internet, it seems to be working fine right? Well for now, at least. According to MaidSafe’s whitepaper, datacenters that support the Internet’s backbone are having increasingly trouble to cope with the 2.4 billion people connected to it, a number that is expected to increase to 3.6 billion by 2017. On top of that it’s highly....
A new decentralized space venture has recently begun, formed by a recent partnership with BitNation and Spacechain. R.O.S.S. (Race to Open Source Space) is a small rocket being prepared by the two teams. The mission of the program is to compete directly with space operations owned and operated by the nation states and private businesses. CEO BitNation, Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof explains: One of the steps in the organization's roadmap is the June 26 launch of Stratoshi – pending favorable weather conditions - which will be one of many high altitude balloon experiments to test the....
With the news of SoundCloud's integration with Changetip, it only makes sense that there is a surge in appeal toward Bitcoin news and analysis podcasts. While constantly refreshing the most popular Bitcoin news sites is addictive to some, it does not always capture the true passion behind digital currency enthusiasts because they lack one thing podcasts have: a passionate voice. Whether you're traveling on a WiFi-free flight, or waiting for the next price change, the Bitcoin podcasts below are sure to satiate your appetite. Decentralize.fm. Bitcoin Magazine had the chance to speak to....