BitcoinACKs Lets You Track Bitcoin Development and Pay Coders for Their Work

MIT announced today it has raised $900,000 to fund the work of three bitcoin developers. The Bitcoin Developer Fund, backed by venture capitalist Fred Wilson, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and others is intended to give the three bitcoin coders working to resolve the block-size debate and other similar technical challenges an academic platform from which to work. MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) director Brian Forde said the university's role in helping support these coders is just part of the academic community’s responsibility to create a place where bitcoin's developers can....

The software used by Stem, which is based on blockchain technology, lets creators aggregate data from a lot of different distribution platforms. Monetizing content on the Internet is not an easy task these days, but there are solutions under development as we speak. Stem, a startup using the blockchain to help content creators collect and share revenue, recently announced a US$4.5m funding round. One of the hardest things to do as a content creator is earning money and keeping track of where all funds are coming from. Thanks to a wide variety of platforms in existence to try and make a....

No-code or low-code smart contract development platforms have been designed to make it easier to become a blockchain developer. The traditional route would require professionals to master fundamental computer programming concepts and then spend many hours/years learning how to work with complex development environments, before being able to successfully build enterprise-grade applications. However, with the advent of no-code and low-code platforms, it’s possible to create high-end smart contract apps almost instantly. We’re able to build almost anything we want and it’s also easier to....

Sam Bankman-Fried stunned the crypto community by investing a whopping $450,000 to support Bitcoin development. In addition, the entrepreneur is sponsoring a nonprofit organization that backs Bitcoin coders for 3 years with $150,000 per year. This nonprofit organization called Brink provides funds to the open-source community focusing on Bitcoin development. With the donation, Brink will […]

MIT recently announced that it has raised $900,000 for the Bitcoin Developer Fund as a part of its Digital Currency Initiative (DCI). The funds raised would be used to support Bitcoin Core development efforts. Core developers Gavin Andresen, Cory Fields and Wladimir van der Laan currently work as a team for the MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative and, according to DCI director Brian Forde, the Bitcoin Developer Fund is intended to give the three Bitcoin coders an academic platform to work on resolving the block-size debate and other similar technical challenges. "We built out the....