21 Inc. Creates Open Source Library For Machine-Payable Web
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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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....
As the Internet of Things (IoT) creates new devices for a variety of remote monitoring capabilities, the question naturally arises: how will the costs for these capabilities be covered? A Medium entry offers an example of how a device, the 21 Bitcoin Computer, can pay on demand for a service it provides. The mining chip integrated into each 21 Bitcoin Computer turns electricity into digital currency by sending a service up to the network (hashing) in return for a stream of bitcoin. The concept of a bitcoin-payable API creates the possibility for machines to provide services over the....
Tech giant IBM has launched an open-source blockchain along with the support of financial incumbents including JP Morgan, the London Stock Exchange and Wells Fargo as well as tech specialists such as Cisco and Intel. Reports by Wired and Fortune indicate that IBM was the leader in creating what will be called the Open Ledger Project, an alternative blockchain system to be overseen by the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit consortium that runs the open-source operating system. The Open Ledger Project is described as a development library that will allow businesses to build custom distributed....
Bitcoin startup 21 Inc announced it had open-sourced its software this weekend, a move that finds it following through on statements by the firm's co-founder and CEO, Balaji Srinivasan, at CoinDesk's Consensus event last month. The release coincides with a stronger presentation of the company's long-term vision, one that will find it seeking to enable micropayments via APIs services for developers as part of a broader transition it calls the 'third web'. This terminology, the company argues, helps articulate the transition from the World Wide Web of documents and hyperlinks, to the social....
After a long night of violent protests in St. Louis, the last thing Missouri could expect in its neighborhood was an open library. It was really a tough decision for the Ferguson Municipal Public Library's one and only full time employee Scott Bonner to open up the library in a riot-hit area. He however went ahead with his guts, only to mark his protest in a peaceful manner while providing a safe and nurturing educational place for children when the schools were closed. This was the moment when Ferguson actually grabbed the attention of the entire world, where a simple and kind act....