Student Aims to Boost Free Speech with Bitcoin Messaging App
A computer science student in the Netherlands has developed a cheap and censorship-resistant messaging service built on top of the bitcoin blockchain. The new tool was developed by Krzysztof Okupski as a graduation project while at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Notably, the 25-year-old is also the author of the Bitcoin Developer Reference. Using a combination of techniques with the explicit goal of being as cost-efficient as possible, Okupski has possibly developed the cheapest method for broadcasting messages over the bitcoin blockchain to date. "I was on the lookout for a topic....
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