New Image Hosting Service Pays Thousands of Uploaders in Bitcoin
Image hosting is one of the latest applications that bitcoin has improved upon, thanks to one-month-old Supload. The service shares advertiser revenues with its users in bitcoin. Bitcoin.com reached out to Mike Reilly, Supload co-founder and website programmer. He recently announced that his site paid out “nearly 2 BTC worldwide to our users, including....
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Last week, Bitcoin.com reported on Supload, a new image-hosting service that pays users in bitcoin for views on their uploaded images. While the service has been well received by bitcoiners, some users have raised concerns that the public at large is not sharing their enthusiasm, stereotyping it as “just another affiliate referral website.” Bitcoin.com....
Server security is an important issue for internet hosting, and many companies turn to dedicated server suppliers for secure hosting. MaxiDed aims to provide ideal solutions to clients looking for server hosting, listing thousands of server configurations and offering customer service in English and Russian. The company was founded in 2007; since then it has expanded its technical staff and area of operations. Now, MaxiDed has more than 400 technical experts representing the company’s services in 72 countries. Most of MaxiDed’s major server suppliers are in United States, Netherlands,....
Things didn't quite pan out at Mt. Gox earlier this year, when the world's oldest bitcoin exchange forcibly submerged and drowned, losing hundreds of thousands of client bitcoins in the process. And while Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès hasn't made any friends in the ordeal, he and his company (Tibanne Co., Ltd.) are desperately working to move on and forward, focusing their attention on a different project. If you haven't already guessed by the title of this post, it's web hosting-related, and the newly-launched website is located at Forever.net. A quick browse of the website shows that the....
Freedom Hosting, a web hosting provider specifically targeting websites in the Tor community, has been shut down, and its owner Eric Eoin Marques arrested in Ireland on charges of facilitating the distribution of online child pornography. Marques is now sitting in jail, denied bail while the Irish courts determine the validity of an extradition request by the United States. Freedom Hosting was responsible for a large number of major "hidden services" on the Tor network, most notably including the email provider Tormail, and some estimates suggest that up to half of all major Tor hidden....
Privacy software provider WhisperSystems has announced that it is integrating bitcoin with open-source code hosting site GitHub to launch a new service, Bithub. This service will offer the company's developers an easy and fair way to fund their work on its open-source security systems. WhisperSystems runs multiple free encryption applications for storage, messaging and calls on both Apple and Android platforms. Once such application, TextSecure, replaces a device's default messaging service so that SMS messages sent and received by the user are encrypted. All the company's applications are....