GitHub

Bitcoin Core

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

Alyssa HertigApr 1, 2020

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.

Startups

Coinbase-Backed ConsenSys Alum Aims to Build GitHub for Web3

Leigh CuenSep 17, 2019

Harrison Hines, a former ConsenSys token guru, is building a developer hub for the decentralized web via his startup Terminal.

Bitcoin Core

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

Colin HarperSep 30, 2020

BitcoinACKs aggregates pull requests for upgrades to Bitcoin Core and lets users pay for the Bitcoin development they want to see.

Iran

GitHub and Slack Bans Are Hurting Iranian Bitcoin Businesses

Leigh CuenAug 7, 2019

Iranian bitcoiners are showing the world what censorship resistance really looks like.

Open Source

Facebook’s Libra Crypto Code Draws Critiques and Clones on GitHub

Christine KimJun 29, 2019

Would-be coders and eager trolls are digging into the early code for Facebook's Libra blockchain.

GitHub

Security

Michael Ford Named Newest Bitcoin Core Code Maintainer

Alyssa Hertig

Long-time Bitcoin Core contributor Michael Ford has been named the newest maintainer of the open-source software project.

Ethereum

The First Version of Ethereum’s Casper Upgrade Has Been Published

David Floyd

Posts on GitHub and Reddit suggest that momentum is building behind he change to ethereum's protocol.

Developers

Ethereum Developer Resigns as Code Editor Citing Legal Concerns

Rachel-Rose O'Leary

Ethereum dev Yoichi Hirai has resigned as GitHub editor, airing concerns that a contentious proposal may be in violation of Japanese law.

Open Source

Deloitte Report: Over 26,000 Blockchain Projects Began in 2016

Stan Higgins

More than 26,000 new projects related to blockchain were created on code repository GitHub last year, according to data collected by Deloitte.

Prices

Pantera Launches BitIndex to Track Bitcoin

Daniel Cawrey

The index was created by the investment firm to forecast "what may happen to bitcoin in the medium term".