Stone Bitcoins and Echoes From the Past - CoinDesk
Let's Talk Bitcoin! Adam B. Levine - podcasts.apple.com
‘Be Your Own Bank’ and the ‘Luxury of Apathy’ - Bitcoin ...
We are the Counterparty Foundation Community Director candidates. AMA!
About Counterparty Foundation The Counterparty Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the Counterparty protocol and its products, educating the community on the Counterparty technology, driving global Counterparty awareness, and ensuring Counterparty remains a successful and growing financial platform. The Foundation is governed by five directors, one Founding Director, Robby Dermody, and four Community Directors. About the Counterparty Foundation 2016 Election On April 19th last year, the Counterparty community elected three Counterparty Foundation community directors9 to help shape the direction of the Counterparty project and grow the community around it. Candidates with most votes from the community were Devon Weller, Robert Ross and Chris Derose. With the term of one year coming to an end, the Foundation is running new elections with nine candidates competing for the four director seats. Users who want to give their votes to one or more candidates may do so by broadcasting a message with the following parameters:
text = XCPELECTION2016 + Candidate Number value = votes
Candidate numbers used as the broadcast parameter: 1 - Krassimir Stoynov 2 - Jeremy Johnson aka "J-Dog" 3 - Trevor Altpeter 4 - Matt Young 5 - JP Janssen 6 - Adam B. Levine 7 - Haixiong Ouyang 8 - Dan Anderson 9 - Koji Higashi More about the election and voting - https://counterpartytalk.org/t/ann-starting-the-foundation-election-2016-voting-period/2006 Voting will be held till block #409774 with the up-to-date scoreboard being published on blockscan - http://blockscan.com/vote/XCPELECTION2016. About the Candidates Krassimir Stoynov - IT specialist with ten years work experience in major international banks – Société Générale, Citibank and Emporiki Bank. Krassimir started to work with Bitcoin at the beginning of 2014. If elected for the community director position, he will focus his efforts on introducing new users to Counterparty, participating in discussions in the Counterparty Slack channel and presenting the Counterparty marketplace to companies which are interested in implementing the platform in the real business Jeremy Johnson - In late 2014 Jeremy decided to start up a company with the mission of making the Counterparty platform easier to understand and use for new users. CoinDaddy.io launched in March 2015 and offers the following services : * Asset Registration Service2 (no XCP needed) * Asset Enhancement Service * Broadcast Enhancement Service * Asset TransfeEscrow Service * Asset Vending Machine Service In addition to the above paid services, he has been a big supporter of Counterparty and run a number of Counterparty related services which are hosted at no cost to the community including: * Public blockchain viewer and APIs (counterpartychain.io) * Public counterwallet server (counterwallet.coindaddy.io) * Public development servers (counterparty/counterblock) * Public whois service (whois.coindaddy.io1) Trevor Altpeter - a long time XCP investor and one of the largest Counterparty asset creators. If elected as Community Director Trevor promises to: * Create a written bi-weekly update of XCP related news * Be professional while representing the Counterparty community * Actively work to bring positive exposure to Counterparty Matt Young - volunteered full-time for Counterparty when the project was in its infancy and has been around ever since. If elected, Matt promises to provide information to new and existing users that inquire about the project in all of the major communication channels. He is a mod on Reddit, an admin on the Facebook page and active in the Skype and Slack chats as well as on BitcoinTalk. JP Janssen - active in the community since the very beginning, and this February his project CounterTools1 won the 1st prize in the Devparty contest. JP is determined to stay active in the community and volunteer on offering support in the forums/Slack. He'd also like to contribute with documentation and code that can assist 3rd parties to build projects on Counterparty. Adam B. Levine - founder of Let's Talk Bitcoin and CEO of Tokenly.. Adam’s priorities regarding Counterparty are that it is: * Managed with a long term point of view * Stable, Tested and Safe * Grows to take advantage of emerging opportunities as they become apparent * represented by professional, respectful individuals Haixiong Ouyang - an ios development engineer with seven years work experience in the field of mobile development. In 2014, he developed CounterpartyApp. If elected, he will focus his efforts in: * Introducing new users to Counterparty In China. * Bring the latest news about Counterparty to the Chinese community. * building up the chinese community, speaking about counterparty at events. Dan Anderson - Bitcoiner / Podcaster / XCPDex.com Koji Higashi - Co-founder of IndieSquare, a provider of mobile token wallet for both iOS and Android. (wallet.indiesquare.me) He is also involved in Spells of Genesis, a mobile game that integrates Counterparty to represent game items on the blockchain. If elected, Koji will: * Advocate for non-financial use cases of Counterparty * Represent the Asian community and encourage more diversity and global reach The AMA will start at 1PM ET.Ask us anything!
Trader Hangout with CEO Mike Belshe of BitGo -- Live 4PM PST Weds
BitGo CEO Mike Belshe has agreed to do a hangout with the WhaleClub panel of long time bitcoin traders to talk about a variety of topics including multi-sig security in the wake of the BFX hack and their products, services and business model as a company. I welcome sourcing questions from the community to ask him on air and we will be creating a Google document beforehand of the questions so he has an idea of what we will be asking as well as outlining the structure of the Hangout. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNtNuVe4s48 Wednesday 4PM Pacific Standard Time (UTC -7:00) so 2300 UTC Edit: I will adding some of the questions below as we work on the document BitGo Hangout Who are you? What is BitGo? Tell us about yourself and take us through the BitGo business model and what you offer to exchanges. (VIX) BitGo Wallet Setups Take us through a standard implementation of BitGo (Kraken, Bitstamp, who else?) Are all of your clients using customizable setups? (BEL) Under what circumstances are transactions normally allowed to be signed and processed? What protections are in place? (BEL) Did your team allow BFX to choose an insecure configuration? Tell us specifically how Bitfinex's setup was customized compared to your other clients -- was this option only available to BFX, why? From the BitGo blog right after the hack “Fortunately, the Bitfinex configuration was unique and other BitGo customers do not need immediate changes.” (BEL) Did BFX have any other special services provided by BitGo, like an Ethereum wallet solution? Who is responsible? Please comment on any of BFX's statements, choices, behaviors that you think might be currently misrepresented? For example, Giancarlo of BitFinex has stated explicitly that BitGo has responsibility in the matter -- Giancarlo stating that BitGo was responsible and didn’t function as expected: Audio Clip #1 https://youtu.be/l9lgIWq2un0?t=31m51s what is the responsibility of BitGo in the matter -- Let’s go over what you have documented on both your website and blog http://imgur.com/a/ywHO3 (VIX) Dynamic Fraud Filters https://blog.bitgo.com/bitgo-dynamic-fraud-filters/ “BitGo will not co-sign requests that appear to be fraudulent and will instead report an error to the user.” -- If you are selling security and fraud prevention how is that almost 120,000 BTC can be lost and not flagged as a fraudulent request? (Swapman) According to Zane “we were never alerted to any fraudulent or apparently fraudulent transactions (to my knowledge we received an email stating a security setting had changed and that’s it). We had never withdrawn more than 2,500btc in 24hr, had never increased the daily global limit, nor had we ever used that API call. I just simply can’t understand how 119,756btc were cosigned under that context.” Giancarlo talking about the unbreakable limit of 2,500 bitcoins that was changed to 1,000,000 2 months prior to the hack Audio Clip #2 https://youtu.be/l9lgIWq2un0?t=1h11m23s This sets up clearly that Bitfinex claims they were never informed of these weaknesses in their setup with BitGo. Did BitGo inform bitfinex of these critical changes? (Swapman) In your blog post after the hack, you said "Our job is to protect your Bitcoin". Do you think BitGo did that for Bitfinex users? “ BitGo systems were not breached in this attack and our software functioned correctly.” -- how could a company built on delivering a security service for bitcoin be functioning properly if this happened ? Even if Giancarlo and the BFX team are incompetent at using your software don’t you still have an obligation to make it idiot proof to meet your service obligation ? (VIX) Did BitGo have a document that details the responsibilities and expectations of each party involved in the fraud prevention/segregation of wallets/transaction-signing? (Widespread) The Hack Is BitGo cooperating with any legal authorities investigating the hack? Which? (BEL) What was learned from the BFX hack? (BEL) Blog post: https://blog.bitgo.com/recent-bitgo-service-improvements/ Why weren’t these features sufficiently provided sufficiently in Bitfinex’s setup? Customer Wallet Review: We conducted a review of all our customers’ wallets and made recommendations to each customer about how their wallet security could be improved through the use of policies, wallet architecture, and basic practices for handling access tokens and credentials in a multi-user environment. Immutable Policies: BitGo policies are controlled by the customer and can be protected by multiple, independent people. To enact a policy change, one person proposes the change, one or more people approve the change (with 2-factor authentication), and finally everyone gets notified that the change is complete via SMS and email. With the new immutable policy feature, once policies have been unchanged for some time, we automatically lock the policy in an immutable state. Changes to the policy cannot be made via API, and may only be unlocked by BitGo Operations Personnel after a manual, out-of-band identification and authentication process. The process includes several safeguards such as a video call with pre-verified persons designated by the company in advance. Mandatory Multiple Approvers: Multiple approvers for policy overrides has always been a core function of the BitGo platform. We have tightened the multiple user policy for several customers to require at least three users to take an administrative action. Customer Protections What happened with all of the insurance features and other claims and terms that were not provided to Bfx customers and/or were edited after the hack happened? Bitgo deleted its post about insurance immediately after the hack -- then re-added it with an edit that insurance expired back in January and all parties were notified. How/when were Bitfinex customers notified of the limitations and special terms of their BitGo wallets? At the very least this looks really bad –]tokenlyfreelance (Adam Levine, LTB) on Reddit said: “I actually reached out to Ben Davenport (a BitGo primary) about exactly the insurance issue immediately after the hack became public. He directed me to a communications person who has not yet responded to my questions. It's very interesting the page was taken down, probably because other people and myself were quoting from it directly since it seems pretty clear they at least represented this type of incident as being covered.” How can a customer be confident BitGo configurations are customized properly, or which scope of terms and insurances will actually apply to them in the event of a crisis? BitGo’s Future & Viability Do you think BitGo, as a centralized platform, might represent a systemic risk that increases with your "success"? For example, when the BitGo API goes down, and none of your partner exchanges can process bitcoins, like happened last year? How is adding BitGo a net gain in security for their customers? (BEL) What skin does BitGo have in the game that someone should trust you as 3rd party? It seems you are responsible for securing exponentially more value than the company itself represents. Giancarlo said he will have a hard time ever trusting another 3rd party: Audio Clip #3 https://youtu.be/l9lgIWq2un0?t=31m2s (VIX) What can BitGo do to transcend being the security company that oversaw the loss of 120,000 bitcoins? How can BitGo become profitable and justifiable as a security solution? Do you anticipate a legal battle between BitGo and Bitfinex? Phil states that BitGo doesn’t have any money to sue for: Audio Clip #4 https://youtu.be/L2XSJlccLPc?t=32m36s (VIX)
Average Bitcoin transaction fee is now above five dollars. 80% of the world population lives on less than $10 a day. So much for "banking the unbanked." (3417 points, 463 comments)
With the public spotlight on Reddit censorship, now would be the perfect time to let the rest of Reddit know about the censorship on /bitcoin (641 points, 121 comments)
Blockstream is falling apart - Greg Maxwell resigns - Blockstream takes down team page in a hurry to reorg team - Adam Back must be worried (675 points, 492 comments)
rBitcoin moderator confesses and comes clean that Blockstream is only trying to make a profit by exploiting Bitcoin and pushing users off chain onto sidechains (578 points, 188 comments)
Blockstream investor emails leaked - shows Blockstream motivation to steal transaction fees from miners and pay to Liquid sidechain customers (539 points, 250 comments)
[PSA] If your Bitcoin are not ready-to-transact in a wallet whose keys you exclusively control, then you don't control your Bitcoin (622 points, 215 comments)
Why us old-school Bitcoiners argue that Bitcoin Cash should be considered "the real Bitcoin" (587 points, 586 comments)
I think we need an EDA fix before the Nov hardfork (541 points, 345 comments)
Why large blocks: because one man's "coffee purchase transaction" is another man's monthly income (501 points, 104 comments)
This sub is under major attack (494 points, 319 comments)
There is a word for a "store of value" with no underlying utility, and that word is "collectible" (481 points, 169 comments)
Ripple user comes to defend Ripple, gets hundreds of upvotes, but can't answer the most fundamental question: what prevents inflation? (459 points, 404 comments)
Shutting down or restricting the uses of bank accounts, thereby forbidding clients to buy crypto, is a blatant affront to the rights of civil liberty, manifested, but not limited to, in the rights to private property and free speech (562 points, 262 comments)
WARNING: Brutal scam. Guy buys a Ledger Nano wallet on Ebay, and it steals all his cryptocurrency ($34,000, which is his life's savings). (1479 points, 522 comments)
Just so you guys know: Ethereum just had another successful hardfork network upgrade. Blockstream is wrong when they say you cannot hard fork to improve things. (655 points, 398 comments)
This was an orchestrated attack. (574 points, 373 comments)
It's called "Bitcoin Cash". The term "Bcash" is a social attack run by bitcoin. Not joking. Here is the full explanation, with proof. (567 points, 310 comments)
I believe Bitcoin Core/Blockstream is now attempting to infiltrate Bitcoin Cash in the same manner that they did with Bitcoin Segwit. They are suddenly befriending Bitcoin Cash. Only in that way can they destroy from within. Do not be fooled. (401 points, 166 comments)
You have $100 worth of BTC. So you purchase an item for $66, but have to pay a $17 fee. Now you have $17 worth of Bitcoin left, but it costs $17 more to move it. So $66 item effectively cost you $100. #Thanks BlockStream (1420 points, 433 comments)
I am stepping down as a moderator of btc and exiting the bitcoin community and entering the Ethereum community. (1110 points, 482 comments)
Now that the debate is over, lets finally make some progress forward. We are starting a marketing fund to expand Bitcoin Cash adoption. (722 points, 211 comments)
Now that REAL consensus is forming, be ready for Core to offer a 2MB hardfork as a last ditch effort to retain their power. DO NOT GIVE IN! (363 points, 179 comments)
btc now has ~50% of the active users of Bitcoin. At this rate btc will soon be the dominant bitcoin subreddit. (353 points, 55 comments)
Guess who controls over half a billion Tethers across 3 exchanges—over 73% of USDT currently in circulation. by peptocurrency (4748 points, 635 comments)
Average Bitcoin transaction fee is now above five dollars. 80% of the world population lives on less than $10 a day. So much for "banking the unbanked." by BeijingBitcoins (3417 points, 463 comments)
2527 points: esquonk's comment in As of today, Steam will no longer support Bitcoin as a payment method
2289 points: nanoakron's comment in Evidence that the mods of /Bitcoin may have been involved with the hacking and vote manipulation "attack" on /Bitcoin.
2025 points: kairepaire's comment in As of today, Steam will no longer support Bitcoin as a payment method
2018 points: vbuterin's comment in "So no worries, Ethereum's long term value is still ~0." -Greg Maxwell, CTO of Blockstream and opponent of allowing Bitcoin to scale as Satoshi had planned.
1215 points: vbuterin's comment in Vitalik Buterin tried to develop Ethereum on top of Bitcoin, but was stalled because the developers made it hard to build on top of Bitcoin. Vitalik only then built Ethereum as a separate currency
1211 points: LiamGaughan's comment in As of today, Steam will no longer support Bitcoin as a payment method
1184 points: anothertimewaster's comment in Evidence that the mods of /Bitcoin may have been involved with the hacking and vote manipulation "attack" on /Bitcoin.
1180 points: TacoPi's comment in Buy, sell, send and receive Bitcoin Cash on Coinbase
962 points: insanityzwolf's comment in bitcoin mods removed top post: "The rich don't need Bitcoin. The poor do"
868 points: SethEllis's comment in As of today, Steam will no longer support Bitcoin as a payment method
Andreas Antonopoulos: Coinbase crypto-exchange is doomed to extinction
In the latest podcast “Let's talk about Bitcoin!” Cryptoenthusiast Andreas Antonopoulos entered into a discussion about how the modern financial infrastructure will change under the influence of the spread of cryptocurrencies. "Digital money will be the only cash available in the future," – he started the discussion. One of the participants of the conversation, Jonathan Mogan, co-founder of Layer2Labs, said that he believed one of the decisions of the Southern District of New York court contained the words that "Bitcoin is an email for money” is a turning point for cryptosphere. According to Mogan, this thesis is very well received and implemented in practice by the largest US cryptotrading company, Coinbase. Adam Levin, the founder and head of Tokenly.com, picked up the topic about Coinbase and noted that if a person starts working with such a centralized cryptoplatform, there will be a high chance of information that should be 100% hidden, to be revealed. As a result, information can "go beyond Coinbase." Antonopoulos explained, that after cryptospace will reach a certain level, the question about a need for cryptoexchanges will arise, as such exchanges in their current operating state carry only some of the processes of the finance industry out. Further, Antonopoulos noted that expanding the range of services for cryptoexchanges shouldn’t be a priority, and that such sites had a chance of survival. According to the crypto enthusiast: "Coinbase is a cryptofriendly bank, but it is still a bank, with all the ensuing consequences for keeping the transaction secret." This fact suggests that “Coinbase business model runs counter to the key values of cryptocurrency,” and therefore, in the future, it is highly likely that this cryptoexchange will lose its customers and eventually close. There are recently a lot of news that there might be reasons not to trust some biggest cryptoexchanges and now famous cryptoinfluencers question Coinbase for its operating model. On that note the new but already well-established and heavily praised, BitSeven platform is a great choice to start trading crypto and making profit. BitSeven Facebook Telegram YouTube
Hello Developers of Reddit! We are Adam B. Levine, founder of the Let's Talk Bitcoin! show and CEO of https://tokenly.com, and Nick Rathman, lead developer and Tokenly co-founder. We're getting ready to launch our first consumer product bringing non-currency tokens (tokens on the counterparty/bitcoin blockchain and using alexandria.io and IPFS for metadata blockchain and distributed storage) to the non-crypto masses at http://early.token.fm We're looking for the right self starter to join our seasoned development team at this exciting time.. You are: mature, self directed, product focused and detail oriented. Not too snarky and able to work 100% remotely. You are based in north american time zones and speak English at native level. You are excited to engage as part of the team via slack and video chat, and you're satisfied by the prospect of building something useful to non-crypto people today, and then maybe they become crypto people tomorrow. You see blockchains, tokens, and cryptocurrency generally as a very powerful tool that should be applied where it adds the most value and the least inconvenience/cost/complexity. Your skill set:
Intermediate - advanced PHP programming knowledge
Familiar with Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
Uses PDO for database interactions
At least some experience working with the Laravel framework and the Composer package manager
Intermediate - advanced MySQL database experience
Basic knowledge and experience using the Linux command line
Strong knowledge and experience with HTML & CSS. Experience with CSS preprocessors like SASS or LESS is a plus.
Intermediate or greater knowledge of Javascript. Experience with jQuery as well as frameworks such as Node.js, Angular and Vue.js are pluses.
Prior experience building Bitcoin or Cryptocurrency applications is a major plus, although not required. Must at least be very willing to learn (and at a fast pace), and ideally start off with some basic knowledge.
Must have prior experience building complex web applications from the ground up (solo or with a team) and getting them publicly launched.
Terms Full Time (part time negotiable for the right candidate) Compensation: Negotiable Monthly Salary (Bitcoin or USD) & Equity Vest/Stock Options If this sounds interesting, send me a private message here on reddit and tell us about your experience both as a developer and specifically in cryptocurrency. Please share a project or two you've built. We will be conducting interviews to fill this role the week of May 22nd Thanks for your time and attention, we look forward to speaking with you soon.
Average Bitcoin transaction fee is now above five dollars. 80% of the world population lives on less than $10 a day. So much for "banking the unbanked." (3417 points, 465 comments)
[PSA] If your Bitcoin are not ready-to-transact in a wallet whose keys you exclusively control, then you don't control your Bitcoin (625 points, 216 comments)
Why us old-school Bitcoiners argue that Bitcoin Cash should be considered "the real Bitcoin" (585 points, 587 comments)
I think we need an EDA fix before the Nov hardfork (535 points, 346 comments)
Why large blocks: because one man's "coffee purchase transaction" is another man's monthly income (508 points, 104 comments)
There is a word for a "store of value" with no underlying utility, and that word is "collectible" (481 points, 171 comments)
Ripple user comes to defend Ripple, gets hundreds of upvotes, but can't answer the most fundamental question: what prevents inflation? (462 points, 407 comments)
If you don't agree that the mission is to make onchain transactions readily available to ALL people at ALL income levels then you don't understand the whole reason Bitcoin was invented to begin with (449 points, 203 comments)
Blockstream is falling apart - Greg Maxwell resigns - Blockstream takes down team page in a hurry to reorg team - Adam Back must be worried (680 points, 496 comments)
rBitcoin moderator confesses and comes clean that Blockstream is only trying to make a profit by exploiting Bitcoin and pushing users off chain onto sidechains (576 points, 188 comments)
Shutting down or restricting the uses of bank accounts, thereby forbidding clients to buy crypto, is a blatant affront to the rights of civil liberty, manifested, but not limited to, in the rights to private property and free speech (563 points, 262 comments)
WARNING: Brutal scam. Guy buys a Ledger Nano wallet on Ebay, and it steals all his cryptocurrency ($34,000, which is his life's savings). (1475 points, 522 comments)
Just so you guys know: Ethereum just had another successful hardfork network upgrade. Blockstream is wrong when they say you cannot hard fork to improve things. (663 points, 399 comments)
It's called "Bitcoin Cash". The term "Bcash" is a social attack run by bitcoin. Not joking. Here is the full explanation, with proof. (568 points, 311 comments)
I believe Bitcoin Core/Blockstream is now attempting to infiltrate Bitcoin Cash in the same manner that they did with Bitcoin Segwit. They are suddenly befriending Bitcoin Cash. Only in that way can they destroy from within. Do not be fooled. (405 points, 170 comments)
You have $100 worth of BTC. So you purchase an item for $66, but have to pay a $17 fee. Now you have $17 worth of Bitcoin left, but it costs $17 more to move it. So $66 item effectively cost you $100. #Thanks BlockStream (1427 points, 434 comments)
Guess who controls over half a billion Tethers across 3 exchanges—over 73% of USDT currently in circulation. by peptocurrency (4745 points, 637 comments)
Average Bitcoin transaction fee is now above five dollars. 80% of the world population lives on less than $10 a day. So much for "banking the unbanked." by BeijingBitcoins (3417 points, 465 comments)
2533 points: esquonk's comment in As of today, Steam will no longer support Bitcoin as a payment method
2290 points: nanoakron's comment in Evidence that the mods of /Bitcoin may have been involved with the hacking and vote manipulation "attack" on /Bitcoin.
2028 points: kairepaire's comment in As of today, Steam will no longer support Bitcoin as a payment method
2019 points: vbuterin's comment in "So no worries, Ethereum's long term value is still ~0." -Greg Maxwell, CTO of Blockstream and opponent of allowing Bitcoin to scale as Satoshi had planned.
1210 points: vbuterin's comment in Vitalik Buterin tried to develop Ethereum on top of Bitcoin, but was stalled because the developers made it hard to build on top of Bitcoin. Vitalik only then built Ethereum as a separate currency
1205 points: LiamGaughan's comment in As of today, Steam will no longer support Bitcoin as a payment method
1181 points: anothertimewaster's comment in Evidence that the mods of /Bitcoin may have been involved with the hacking and vote manipulation "attack" on /Bitcoin.
1178 points: TacoPi's comment in Buy, sell, send and receive Bitcoin Cash on Coinbase
959 points: insanityzwolf's comment in bitcoin mods removed top post: "The rich don't need Bitcoin. The poor do"
871 points: SethEllis's comment in As of today, Steam will no longer support Bitcoin as a payment method
Hello Developers of Reddit! We are Adam B. Levine, founder of the Let's Talk Bitcoin! show and CEO of https://tokenly.com, and Nick Rathman, lead developer and Tokenly co-founder. We're getting ready to launch our first consumer product bringing non-currency tokens (tokens on the counterparty/bitcoin blockchain and using alexandria.io and IPFS for metadata blockchain and distributed storage) to the non-crypto masses at http://early.token.fm We're looking for the right self starter to join our seasoned development team at this exciting time.. You are: mature, self directed, product focused and detail oriented. Not too snarky and able to work 100% remotely. You are based in north american time zones and speak English at native level. You are excited to engage as part of the team via slack and video chat, and you're satisfied by the prospect of building something useful to non-crypto people today, and then maybe they become crypto people tomorrow. You see blockchains, tokens, and cryptocurrency generally as a very powerful tool that should be applied where it adds the most value and the least inconvenience/cost/complexity. Your skill set:
Intermediate - advanced PHP programming knowledge
Familiar with Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
Uses PDO for database interactions
At least some experience working with the Laravel framework and the Composer package manager
Intermediate - advanced MySQL database experience
Basic knowledge and experience using the Linux command line
Strong knowledge and experience with HTML & CSS. Experience with CSS preprocessors like SASS or LESS is a plus.
Intermediate or greater knowledge of Javascript. Experience with jQuery as well as frameworks such as Node.js, Angular and Vue.js are pluses.
Prior experience building Bitcoin or Cryptocurrency applications is a major plus, although not required. Must at least be very willing to learn (and at a fast pace), and ideally start off with some basic knowledge.
Must have prior experience building complex web applications from the ground up (solo or with a team) and getting them publicly launched.
Terms Full Time (part time negotiable for the right candidate) Compensation: Negotiable Monthly Salary (Bitcoin or USD) & Equity Vest/Stock Options If this sounds interesting, send me a private message here on reddit and tell us about your experience both as a developer and specifically in cryptocurrency. Please share a project or two you've built. We will be conducting interviews to fill this role the week of May 22nd Thanks for your time and attention, we look forward to speaking with you soon.
I am a regular listener of the Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast hosted by Adam B. Levine, Andreas Antonopoulos and Stephanie Murphy. The podcast is bi-weekly and covers a lot of ground, however, they seem to really like discussing innovations in the crypto space more than just coin market values. In addition to the main Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast, there are also a few other good crypto-related podcasts available on the site. A couple of the more regular ones are Bitcoins and Gravy, and Paul Boyer's Mad Money Machine. A couple weeks ago, I posted on the LTB forums regarding a new segment idea in hopes that one of these podcasts would pick up the segment. Here is a link to my post: http://letstalkbitcoin.com/forum/post/new-segment-idea-for-one-of-the-ltbn-podcasts-altcoin-innovations The idea was to have a segment that focused on some of the great innovations happening in the altcoin world. Usually, they focus a lot more on the App-coin and so-called Bitcoin 2.0 platforms, so I thought this would be a way to let them know that there is also a lot of interesting innovation and experimentation happening in the altcoin space. Let's look at what Reddcoin is doing. We have a very vibrant community that is growing every day. We have created a strong presence on some of the biggest social networks and have a healthy (and interesting) micro-transaction support economy for original content, ideas, development and innovations. I am not as active on Reddit as I am on Twitter, but I know there is a lot of positive Reddcoin action always happening on my Twitter feed as well as the occasional 'making it rain' parties we have in the #Reddcoin IRC channel on Freenode. I am also not a big twitch user, so maybe someone can comment about the impact Reddcoin has had there... With these great things to boast about the Reddcoin community, and the microtransaction economy it is helping to build, this is only the beginning... The Roadmap paints a very exciting picture of where we are planning to take this micro-transaction economy in the near future. I really think The Social X project announced by Laudney (as well as the future integrations with the real big game changer for Reddcoin, seamless Facebook tipping) will change the way we all interact over social networks. Reddcoin really is in the best position to become the [Love] button of the internet. One way Reddcoin's micro-transaction economy will be important is to give legs to the individuals who are currently unable to 'make it' as a freelancer by utilizing their unique skills and talents. The biggest problem in this space is not finding people who are interested in the unique services and talents that many of these folks have to offer, but the barrier of the shopping cart. There are loads more people who are willing to send a quick/small no-website-registration-required transaction to those who have talents and services to offer than there are people willing to jump through the hoops of site registration, shopping carts, and automated email responses. Also, since the barrier is lowered, this opens the door for many more people to take advantage of the person's talents and services at a lower fee, since the person offering those services will not have to capture as many higher paying customers who are willing to jump through the hoops to be able to meet the same bottom line. I know I got off topic a little tiny bit there, but the point is, there is a ton of interesting stuff happening just in our small (but ever-expanding) corner of the 'net. Let's get some of these existing podcasts to feature reddcoin and talk about some of the innovations and experiments we are doing with PoS-V, Social-X, creating micro-transaction economies, and some of the outstanding developers who are creating other reddcoin-related projects. Let's Take Action: Ok, so what is the deal? How can we do something to help the community? First- let's keep the conversations personable and respectful! We've gotta let The hosts of these podcasts know that we are doing some really amazing and interesting stuff! Here are some points of contact you can reach out to: Twitter: Adam B. Levine, host of Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast: @GamerAndy Andreas Antonopoulos, host of Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast: @aantonop Stephanie Murphy, host of Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast: @S_Murphy_PhD Lets Talk Bitcoin podcast: @LetsTalkBitcoin Paul Boyer, host of Mad Money Machine podcast: @PlanetBoyer Mad Money Machine: @MadMoneyMachine Bitcoins and Gravy Podcast: @BTCandG John Light, host of (the brand new) P2P Connects Us podcast, @lightcoin P2P Connects Us podcast: @p2pconnectsus In addition to the podcasts on the Let's Talk Bitcoin Network, there are also a lot of articles that are written for the site. If someone who has some good writing skills wants to give that a go, you can submit your Reddcoin article to the site and see if it gets picked up to be published. If you do end up writing the article and it doesn't get published, consider also sending it out to one or more of the crypto0related news sources out there and get some Reddcoin love spread out there. Talk about the innovations, the community, the future, the vision... paint the picture for the audience to see where we are going and how it is going to make our social interactions better. The more we spread the love, the more we grow, so do it up, send tips to people who aren't in the community and take the time to explain to them what Reddcoin is all about in your own words (the video is a great tool also, but people are going to value what you say more than they are going to value the information they get from some video on the internet... the video is great tool for helping to explain WHAT reddcoin is, but tell them in your own words and they will appreciate it more. In case any of you haven't actually checked out any of the Let's Talk Bitcoin Network podcasts, there are some really good ones, and they are great for listening in while you are at work or commuting. Here is a link (disclosure: it is a referral link, but I guess that is what they are for if I am actually referring you to go check them out, right?) http://letstalkbitcoin.com/?ref=b1ef1f0f Anyways, I know this is a long post and that I did a lot of slightly off-topic babbling, so here it is... TL;DR - Let's get Reddcoin's innovations and experiments featured on some popular podcasts and/or new outlets to help grow the community. The bigger we grow, the better for us all in so many ways. Contact the people listed above to request a Reddcoin feature, but really sell them on the 'why should I?' Cheers fellow Reddheads, Eric Twitter: @AwfulProgrammer TrollchatKing greenguitar28 on Let's Talk Bitcoin awfulprogrammer.com
The Weekly Bitcoin #10 - The Price Doesn't Matter (Except That It Does)
Instead of just investors benefiting from the greater demand for Bitcoin, all participants in the system benefit as a rising tide lifts all boats. Editors Note #10 The Price Doesn't Matter EXCEPT WHEN IT DOES I don’t like to think about or even look at the price of Bitcoin. Putting a numerical value on a thing is often mistaken for a fair value of that thing. In Sales there is a technique called anchoring, where when you’re talking about a product you make sure to start with a higher number because that becomes the first mental peg for further negotiations. So it’s a distraction, an arbitrary point in space where two traders looked at their own personal math and said “Yep, this deal makes sense for my needs” and that’s the price. Is it market driven? Yes. Is it fair value? We just don’t know. But... If this is the new normal for pricing, which I’m not saying it is because I’m not willing to believe it quite yet, than the Deflationary Business Model has been wildly successful for Let’s Talk Bitcoin and every contractor we’ve worked with. Our most common tip over the last six months was .007btc - It took me a while to figure it out, but at the values we were hovering at, it’s about a dollar. Every one of those tips we didn’t have to spend is now worth $4 and suddenly hitting only 50% of our revenue targets was actually exceeding it by 50%. One of the first contractors I hired and paid in Bitcoin was to have Business cards made for five LTB crew who would be attending the San Jose Bitcoin 2013 conference, he was a listener and gave me a 50% discount as a donation-in-kind. He sent this over this morning I just realized the business cards I made for you back in May were the most profitable business cards I've ever created, considering the value of those Bitcoin today. Thank you! -Rob So, the people who believed in Bitcoin when it was more on the fringe are being rewarded. This is the desired situation when buying stock, but when do I ever pay for services with stock? Instead of just investors benefiting from the greater demand for Bitcoin, all participants in the system benefit as a rising tide lifts all boats. Monday and Tuesday see new milestones for the nascent Cryptocurrency ecosystem as Bitcoin truly goes to Washington for the first congressional hearings on the topic. But I don’t expect much drama at all, this is about not being the guy in 1990 who tries to savagely restrict the potential uses of the internet. In hindsight, had that been allowed, we would live in a very different world. Bitcoin is so obviously that, you can expect congressional skepticism tinged with “it’ll be the greatest boon for the economy... if we can stop the terrorists and child molesters” I don’t often make predictions, but here’s one for you. Bitcoin is past it’s anti-fragile middle point and win, lose or draw at this weeks hearings, more people will know about Bitcoin when the media is through and the world financial system will still be a shuddering mess by comparison. Adam B. Levine 11/17/2013 Editor-in-Chief, Let's Talk Bitcoin!
Max Keiser is a true Bitcoin OG, having been in the Bitcoin space since it cost $1 and reporting on it on the Keiser report since then as well. In this episode we really dive into Max’s past, learn about what makes Max Max and — lessons from living in Harlem and going to NYU, Wall Street and finance history, an energy revolution and hacking ... On today’s episode of Let’s Talk Bitcoin! you’re invited to join Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Adam B. Levine, Stephanie Murpy and special guest Richard Myers for an in-depth look at the past, present and future of ‘Mobile Mesh Networking’ technology and the open source LOT49 protocol built on top of lightning. On today’s episode of Let’s Talk Bitcoin! you’re invited to join Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Adam B. Levine, Stephanie Murpy and special guest Richard Myers for an in-depth look at the past, present and future of ‘Mobile Mesh Networking’ technology and the open source LOT49 protocol built on top of lightning. It was an absolute pleasure to have a long talk with Adam B. Levine about the concept of Value, its core meaning, how we exchange with each other with Value in mind, and how new tools of cryptocurrencies and cryptographic tokens give us options that have never existed before--and, of course, some speculation on the possibilities! There's a lot here, folks. On today’s episode of Let’s Talk Bitcoin! you’re invited to join Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Adam B. Levine, Jonathan Mohan and Stephanie Murpy for an in-depth discussion about the ups and downs, the good and the bad about being your own bank in the modern world of Bitcoin.
Decentralized Applications - the future of Bitcoin and virtual currencies?
Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum.org, David Johnston, Mastercoin Foundation, Brian Snyder, NXT Moderated by Adam Levine, Let's talk Bitcoin. Adam B. Levine, Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Jonathan Mohan and Stephanie Murphy discuss Rootstock (RSK) at BTC2019.This episode of Let's Talk Bitcoin! was sponsored by Edge.app https://edge.app/ Let ... Jason starts off the interview by asking Adam if he would still classify Bitcoin as an experiment? Adam says Bitcoin has been a successful experiment so far and the odds of its success continue to ... Andreas sits down once again with Father-of-Hashcash Adam Back, this time to deep dive into Sidechain Elements, what it is, how it works and what it means. Be sure to subscribe with WS4MS for a FREE copy of our 2016 outlook report! Wall St for Main St welcomed back Adam B. Levine, who is the Founder and Senior Editor of Let's Talk Bitcoin!
