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Summer 2020 Is Funding Season for Open-Source Bitcoin Development

Leigh CuenJun 25, 2020

The maker of Wasabi Wallet becomes the latest firm to support crypto coders with a 1 BTC donation to the Human Rights Foundation's Bitcoin Development Fund.

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OKCoin, BitMEX Sponsor Bitcoin Core Developer Amiti Uttarwar

Leigh CuenJun 18, 2020

OKCoin and BitMEX just sponsored another Bitcoin Core developer, Amiti Uttarwar, who is focused on privacy tech and education.

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Here’s How to Expand Who Contributes to Bitcoin Core

Nathaniel WhittemoreJul 3, 2020

A Bitcoin Core dev and her exchange partner discuss Bitcoin and privacy and how to incentivize more developers to contribute to the protocol.

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Latest Bitcoin Core Code Release Protects Against Nation-State Attacks

William FoxleyJun 3, 2020

Bitcoin Core released a new software update Wednesday. Notably, it includes experimental software to hedge against attacks from nation-states and ISPs.

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Why a Startup You’ve Never Heard of Is Now Sponsoring a Bitcoin Core Developer

Leigh CuenApr 28, 2020

CardCoins becomes one of the elite few to sponsor a Bitcoin Core developer – in this instance, Hennadii Stepanov, aka Hebasto.

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BitMEX Operator Ups Grant for Bitcoin Development to $100K

Paddy Baker

HDR Global Trading has supported bitcoin maintainer Michael Ford since he was appointed last summer.

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GitHub Is Burying Bitcoin Code Inside an Arctic Mountain to Ride Out the Next 1,000 Years

Alyssa Hertig

Deep inside a forsaken coal mine on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, the Bitcoin Core code repository will be kept on film reels and stored for centuries.

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Bitcoin Coders Confront an Old Quandary: How to Upgrade an Entire Network

Alyssa Hertig

An old debate is resurfacing in the bitcoin developer community, underscoring one of the critical challenges confronting decentralized systems.

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Here’s How to Inspect Bitcoin’s Next (Likely) Major Upgrade Yourself

Alyssa Hertig

With bitcoin’s next likely major upgrade in the works, students of the cryptocurrency can inspect the code themselves, helped by core developers.

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Bitcoin’s Privacy and Scaling Tech Upgrade ‘Taproot’ Just Took a Big Step Forward

Alyssa Hertig

A privacy and scalability upgrade that could turn out to be one of bitcoin's largest to date has passed a couple of milestones that were little noticed outside technical circles.

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‘Building’ Bitcoin’s Software Just Got a Bit More Trustless

Alyssa Hertig

There's a bit less trust now needed when developers compile the software at the heart of bitcoin.

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What It’s Like to Review Bitcoin’s Code

Alyssa Hertig

CoinDesk dives deep into the complex process of reviewing code for the Bitcoin Core software.

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Coder Proposes Alternative to Bitcoin’s ‘Notoriously Unreliable’ Testnet

Alyssa Hertig

Introduced Wednesday, a new proposal called Signet offers a fresh alternative to bitcoin's test network.

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Where to Find Bitcoin’s Rising Stars

Leigh Cuen

The Chaincode Labs summer residency program shows how decentralized software development evolves.

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