21 Inc Open Sources Bitcoin Computer Software Library
Most people know the 21 Inc company as the group behind the Bitcoin computer. But under the hood, there is a vast open source library waiting to be explored and expanded. As of today, the company has open sourced their entire software package. One effort had been initiated in the past to port the 21 Inc proprietary software to different devices. Though....
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21 Inc. has made its software free, ‘turning any computer into a bitcoin computer’, the company announced on Medium. Once a computer has installed the software, the user can get bitcoin using any device nearly anywhere without a bank account or credit cards. The software allows users to add micropayments to any app and begin earning bitcoin on each HTTP request. Users can also join fellow 21 developers in building a machine-payable web at slack.21.io. To install 21, users can download the Docker image or run the command, curl https://21.co | sh. Users can establish a profile at....
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