'Give us bitcoins,' developers say
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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Most of the times I introduce bitcoins to people who don't know about it, they invariably reply: "Where could I use them?" I would usually reply "at any merchant that accepts bitcoins." But now I'm able to reply "Anywhere". The next question most people ask is "But where do I get bitcoins in the first place?" I'd usually mention localbitcoins or Coinbase. But now I'm able to tell them about Brawker. Brawker is proxy buying service that allows you to both buy bitcoins and purchase anything on the internet using bitcoins with a guaranteed discount, just for using bitcoins. Here's how it....
Apple recently started to give more freedom to iOS app developers in integrating digital currencies and in-game tokens including bitcoin. Yesterday, the California-based tech giant has approved another bitcoin-based mobile game application called Wheel of Bitcoins, which pays bitcoin directly and immediately to users’ email, from the app. Wheel of Bitcoins is a casual roulette game, with which users spin to win different combinations of bitcoins. Once users earn bitcoins in the game, the app sends it through Xapo directly to users’ emails, allowing users to instantly withdraw or cash out....
Ready to learn more about bitcoin first-hand without losing your hard-earned money? You may be interested in BitSim.net, a just-launched website service that serves as a bitcoin trading simulator. Simulator? Simulator! Upon signing up, you start off with a net worth of $100,000 USD, and you can use that fake money to buy bitcoins and subsequently sell them without the tears of despair. "Our mission is to give everyone an opportunity to familiarize themselves with Bitcoins. Here you can learn, practice, and try out different strategies for trading Bitcoins," says the site's homepage. It's....
How many bitcoins have been mined so far? How many bitcoins did the FBI seize during the Silk Road investigation? Where did all those bitcoins go? Who has the most number of bitcoins in the world? These are some of the questions that are bound to be asked at one time or another, unless you have already asked that to yourself. Starting with, How many bitcoins have been mined so far? To give you the statistics, out of the total 21 million bitcoins to be mined, over 14.75 million bitcoins are already mined. The total number of bitcoins mined so far can be found at this link. Time for the next....
A man from Newport, Wales, doesn't know whether to laugh or cry having recently realised he accidentally threw away £4m worth ($6.5m) of bitcoins. James Howells decided to give bitcoin mining a go back in 2009 and managed to mine around 7,500 bitcoins using his computer, the Guardian reports. At the time of writing, the price of 7,500 BTC, according to the CoinDesk BPI, is just under £4.2m. Hype around digital currency was pretty low back in 2009 and Howells decided to give up mining after his girlfriend complained about the noise and heat coming from his computer as a result of the mining....