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Many Bitcoin Developers Are Choosing to Use Pseudonyms – For Good Reason

Alyssa HertigJun 29, 2020

Whether out of concern for personal security or a desire to preserve privacy, many Bitcoin developers are known to the world only by their pseudonyms.

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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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Ethereum Developers Delay Berlin Hard Fork to Stem Client Centralization Concerns

William FoxleyJun 30, 2020

79% of Ethereum nodes run on Geth. Core developers have pushed back July's Berlin hard fork so other clients can catch up.

Bitcoin Core

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.

Bitcoin

Bitcoin Vaults: Developer Bryan Bishop Releases Prototype for Secure On-Chain Storage

Brady DaleApr 13, 2020

The basic idea involves storing bitcoin on-chain in a particularly secure manner that allows for recovery from security mistakes.

Developers

BitMEX

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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ProgPoW

Ethereum’s ProgPoW Call Features Frustration but Little Progress

William Foxley

The controversial proposed change to Ethereum’s mining algorithm failed to change status after meeting resistance during Friday’s core developers call.

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CoinDesk Video

From Crypto Self-Custody to Music Rights, This Mother-Daughter Dev Team Does It All

Leigh Cuen

Developer Cindy Zimmerman and her mother Judy Katzman are among the cryptocurrency community’s most quietly prolific builders.

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Developers

Ripple-Backed Crypto Wallet BRD Launches Blockchain Toolbox for Enterprise Apps

Daniel Palmer

The mobile wallet provider is launching a suite of tools aimed to allow blockchain developers to more easily and cheaply build apps for enterprises.

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Ethereum

WATCH: Ethereum Enters a ‘Crossroads’ at the Ethereal Summit

Daniel Kuhn

CoinDesk's Daniel Kuhn speaks with ethereum community members at the Ethereal Summit ahead of the blockchain's reboot.

Vitalik Buterin at Ethereal Summit via Ali Powell/CoinDesk
Developers

Loom Launches ‘CryptoZombies’ Tutorial to Get Coders on Facebook’s Libra

Brady Dale

Get the basics of Facebook's new Libra blockchain with a free online tutorial from Loom.

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Security

Meet FumbleChain, the Deliberately Flawed Blockchain

Christine Kim

There's a new blockchain for developers to break at will. The "capture the flag" project from Kudelski Security is meant to educate.

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Developers

Crypto Code Commits Remain Near All-Time Highs, Despite Price Declines

Brady Dale

A new report from Electric Capital identifies which blockchains are attracting developer activity.

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Developers

ConsenSys-Backed Truffle Is Taking Its Dev Tools Beyond Just Ethereum

Christine Kim

Truffle is expanding to Hyperledger Fabric, Tezos and R3's Corda after clocking 3.5 million downloads from ethereum developers.

Truffle's Wes McVay (left) and Tim Coulter (right) speak at TruffleCon 2018 (photo via ConsenSys)

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