"Knowledge Market" Synapsi.com Offers Serious Potential for Bitcoin & Programmers
Independent journalist Bailey Reutzel recently wrote about the often undiscussed problem with open source software (hint: it's not open source itself). The problem she surmised (and confirmed in an interview with Digital Bazaar CEO Manu Sporny), and which many agree with after decades of seeing the cycle, is that corporations rely on open source software for their profit model but do little to compensate the hardworking volunteers. Her article centers around the OpenSSL project, which suffered a serious vulnerability in recent memory with the Heartbleed bug. She points out that only a....
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The number of developers and users of the Stack Exchange, a collaborative Q&A platform for developers, has decreased substantially, due to its lack of incentive for freelance programmers. To properly incentivize developers and solution providers of the network, a group of engineers have launched Synapsi, a blockchain-powered knowledge market. “We believe Synapsi offers a solution to any platform where users want to provide incentives for high-priority questions and issues,” Ken Miyoshi of Synapsi told Joseph Young in an exclusive interview. “Users can now attach bounties to questions on....
I recently sat down with a professional artist to discuss his art and teaching career. Eventually, the discussion led to art and the blockchain after a comment he made. He recalled that, when digital art first came out, the quality of it left something to be desired. His colleagues said that digital art was hardly art. He held reservations about that opinion, believing that, in due time, digital art could be at the forefront. When the Internet first came out in the nineties, he said, the people making digital art were computer programmers. However, eventually artists joined the online....
The new Bitcoin-XT client - which essentially forks the Bitcoin block chain - has been the subject of much controversy in recent weeks in the Bitcoin community. So much so that coverage has leaked into the mainstream media causing wild fluctuations in the Bitcoin price. Some do not consider BXT to be Bitcoin. Instead, they paint it as an alt-coin. The debate centers on whether or not certain changes in Bitcoin's code should be implemented. If such changes are implemented then Bitcoin's block size - the part of the code that controls the number of transactions which take place - would be....
Blockchain technology undoubtedly has several uses and has been integrated with various sectors apart from financial services. With the development of blockchain technology, several new use cases are opening up all over the world, which no one could imagine before. One of such uses is offered by Limytd, a singularly unique blockchain academy that offers courses to educate people about blockchain technology. About Limytd Limytd aims to use the experience and expertise of its global team to educate the masses about the investment opportunities of blockchain technology. It is a blockchain....
If you’re a programmer and would love to dip your fingers into creating a Martian metaverse, then NASA wants you. What’s up with the new challenge? NASA is currently on the lookout for ambitious and innovative programmers who can come up with the best design of the epic Martian Metaverse for a hefty prize of […]