BitPay Moves to Decentralize the Internet with Bitcoin Technology
At the San Francisco Bitcoin Developer Meetup, Bitpay CEO Stephen Pair announced a new project called Foxtrot. A simple, secure, and decentralized routing network based on Bitcoin cryptography. Foxtrot enables easy p2p communications and has built-in mechanisms for peer discovery, creation of services addressable by public keys, and establishing encrypted connections. The Foxtrot project is open source and available on Github, with code released under the MIT license. Foxtrot will include other technologies developed by Bitpay: Insight, an open-source stack which interfaces with a full....
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