BitPay Launches Discussion Forum For Its Open-Source Projects
BitPay has launched 'Labs', a discussion forum for all of the firm's open-source bitcoin projects. The bitcoin payment processor announced the news on its blog, saying that it believes that reliable, open-source bitcoin infrastructure is crucial to widespread adoption. The post described BitPay Labs as the perfect place to ask questions, get feedback, and discuss ideas for improving on open-source bitcoin projects. It continued to explain that "each project has a Lab, and project maintainers are actively working with the community to answer questions, find solutions, and guide....
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