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Durabit: Incentivizing Torrent Seeding With Bitcoin

A recent anonymous proposal specifies a system using timelocked Bitcoin transactions and chaumian ecash mints to create an economic incentive for BitTorrent users to seed files.

Advancing Toward a Decentralized Internet in the Real World

HBO's comedy Silicon Valley features a "decentralized internet" storyline. Here are some of the actual projects underway in the real-life, blockchain world.

Sztorc: Digital Cash and Prediction Markets Share Similar Histories

Bloq Economist and Bitcoin Hivemind creator Paul Sztorc has been fascinated with prediction markets for many years, and he views these mechanisms for the...

BitTorrent-Powered ZeroNet Decentralized Web Pioneers Peer-To-Peer Internet

ZeroNet, a serverless P2P network that uses Bitcoin cryptography and BitTorrent technology, may be the first real, usable prototype of a decentralized web.BitTorrent users...

BitTorrent Creator Criticizes Increased Block Size Proposals

In May, Bitcoin Magazinereported that lead Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen is persuaded that the best solution to the limited Bitcoin transactions rate – the...

JoyStream: a BitTorrent Client that Incentivizes Seeders with Bitcoin

JoyStream, the world’s first bitcoin-based BitTorrent client is set to have an alpha release for a limited amount of pre-signed users on the Bitcoin...

The Chosen One: Austrian Redux, Part II

Here’s Part 1: The Value Foundations of BitcoinWhile gritting teeth and shaking hands with Bitcoin is necessary, Austrian economists should flash a toothy smile...

Silk Road Shut Down, Alleged Owner Arrested

The Silk Road, the largest black market site on the Tor network, has been shut down by the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation,...

Bitcoin: An International Currency for International Communities

Remember FrostWire (BitTorrent client)? They’ve completely transformed their platform and are integrating Bitcoin into their system.While at a Bitcoin conference I met Angel Leon,...

The Pirate Bay Accepting Bitcoin Donations, Other Torrent Sites Follow

The most famous torrent site in the world, The Pirate Bay, has just started accepting Bitcoin donations, placing a donation address on their front...
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