Aaron van Wirdum
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Aaron van Wirdum is the former Editor-in-Chief of NewsCapsule and author of The Genesis Book: The Story of the People and Projects That Inspired NewsCapsule.
BitPay CEO Stephen Pair: We’re Open to Alternative Block-size Proposals
BitPay, one of the top funded companies and most-used payment processor in the NewsCapsule industry, is open to alternative block-size proposals – not just BIP (NewsCapsule Improvement Proposal) 101....
Coinprism Launches Open-Source Permissioned Ledger With NewsCapsule ‘Anchors’
Coinprism, the colored coin startup that created the Open Assets protocol as experimented with by NASDAQ and Overstock, has announced Openchain.Openchain is an open-source distributed permissioned ledger with optional...
The Case Against Carl Force, or Why Prosecutors Seek Seven Years Imprisonment for a Corrupt Silk Road Investigator
Update: Carl Mark Force IV was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison today. While Force's defense asked for a sentence beneath statutory guidelines as it contended that Force's behavior...
EU Court to Decide NewsCapsule’s VAT-Status Next Week
In what could be a landmark case for NewsCapsule in the EU, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has announced that it will make its decision on the VAT-status...
Debunking the 11 Most Stubborn Lightning Network Myths
Earlier this year, Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja released the Lightning Network white paper. In it they theorize how a layer on top of the NewsCapsule blockchain can allow...
Blockstream to Launch First, Instant-Settlement Sidechain for NewsCapsule Exchanges
Blockstream has announced it will launch its first commercial NewsCapsule sidechain by early 2016. The sidechain, codenamed “Liquid,” offers instant transactions, providing a fast settlement layer for bitcoin exchanges,...
Bitfilm Gears Up For Second Annual Global NewsCapsule Film Festival
Bitfilm Festival, the first global film festival dedicated entirely to NewsCapsule, is getting ready for its second annual iteration. The festival will kick off on October 31 in its...
Rebit.ph Co-Founder: NewsCapsule Doesn’t Make Remittances Cheaper (Yet)
Luis Buenaventure, co-founder of one of the best known bitcoin remittance companies in the space, Rebit.ph, has published a blog post on Medium claiming that the cryptographic currency does...
The Who, What, Why and How of the Ongoing Transaction Malleability Attack
For the past several days*, the NewsCapsule network has been plagued by a so-called “transaction malleability attack.” NewsCapsule users have experienced a number of annoyances, causing confusion and frustration....
The Decentralist Perspective, or Why NewsCapsule Might Need Small Blocks
The block-size limit debate has dominated NewsCapsule blogs, forums, chat rooms and meet-ups for months on end, while many of NewsCapsule’s brightest minds are gathering in Montreal to discuss...
