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Rootstock Announces Release of Ginger Testnet

RSK Labs has announced the open source release of their Ginger test network for smart contracts. Presenting at digital currency conference Consensus 2017, RSK promised to add smart contract functionality to the main bitcoin blockchain along with greater scalability and additional revenue streams for miners.

Rootstock’s smart contract network will feature a two-way cryptographic peg to the main bitcoin blockchain, providing a platform that can scale up to 2.000 tx/second on chain and 20.000 tx/second off chain. The core innovation of the Rootstock technology will be smart contract functionality. RSK Labs is intending on introducing a Turing-complete scripting language which will allow decentralized applications to be programmed on the bitcoin network.

We are looking to create a bitcoin block explorer using bitcore.

Seeing that a full node would require around around 8GB of memory and about 200GB of disk space available to store the Bitcoin blockchain plus additional database information, we plan on building it on Amazon Web Services. We could then have an API that connects to the actual website.

We are looking for someone who has extensive experience operating a full node and preferably someone who has built a block explorer elsewhere.

The block explorer will be built on the homepage on www.diginomics.com.

If you are interested to know more, you can leave a comment here or send us a personal message.

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If you were a startup business, how would you compete with Poloniex?

What kind of services would you offer that are not currently offered by them?

Would you create an exchange or go in a completely different direction?

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We are conducting market research among the bitcoin community to see which tagline resonates with them most.

Our products are education based, focusing on programming and investing courses.

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We are looking to conduct some market research regarding course offerings to the bitcoin community.

Bitcoin is a computer virus that will continue to spread until it is as socially accepted as email is today. In this post, I will explain not only why this rapidly expanding computer network has changed the paradigm on what defines money – but why the blockchain represents a historical image of the digital economy and provides a record of any past activity due to the nature of peer-to-peer timestamp verification.

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We are giving away a Trezor Bitcoin Wallet at the beginning of 2017 to one lucky winner on our email list.

The Trezor Wallet is one of the industry-leading solutions for storing bitcoin on a hardware device. Trezor gives you the ability to keep your private key on an isolated device so that it never resides on an internet-connected computer. Trezor is Windows, OS X and Linux compatible.

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As the age of cryptocurrency comes into full force, it will facilitate a subversively viable taxation avoidance strategy for many of the technically savvy users of peer-to-peer payment systems. In doing so, cryptocurrency use will act to erode the tax revenue base of national jurisdictions, and ultimately, reposition taxation as a voluntary, pay-for-performance function. In this post, I cover some of the benefits such a strategy will have for cryptocurrency investors, why our notion of taxation is ripe for disruption, and why cryptocurrency taxation is enabled by default.

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Jet Fuel Can't Melt The Blockchain

Every so often a technology completely changes the way we conduct business.

In today's world, that technology is the bitcoin blockchain.

During the next few decades, we can expect this technology to be a catalyst for change as we use the blockchain to store and share informational assets on a global basis.

On December 20th we will be drawing one lucky member from our Facebook page to win a Trezor bitcoin wallet. In order to enter to win this trezor bitcoin wallet, you must be a fan of our page. To enter, be sure to like our page and share it with your friends!

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The more each user shares the page, and the more users they themselves enter into the draw, the higher their chances of winning will be.

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When it exists in the private domain, money itself becomes a product of innovation. Unlike public, central bank controlled money, bitcoin and the emergence of cryptocurrencies shift the function of money to the private domain where the market demands continuous innovation. The power of choice given to the consumer by private money, allows users to choose which form of money to use in daily expenditures. This power of choice afforded to the consumer by way of a private cryptocurrency market, will enable a profound change in the way people view money and a higher overall quality of money.

The bitcoin vs gold debate has raged on in investment circles since bitcoin has entered mainstream discussion among increasingly interested investors. Gold has been used as a form of currency and trade for thousands of years, and certainly has a track record for reliability and preservation of wealth. However, as the newcomer onto the scene, bitcoin may be the kind of financial and technological breakthrough to to challenge gold as the monetary kingpin.

Early on in its life cycle, seasoned investors began questioning the legitimacy of bitcoin value and debating how such a commodity could hold intrinsic value. What differentiates bitcoin from a mere collectible and what makes it similar to precious metal assets such as gold or silver? Among many circles, especially gold bugs and older-generation investors, bitcoin was not considered a valid investment up until very recently.

Which factors of bitcoin instill this validity of investment?

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The days of near-instantaneous payment seem like something of the science fiction genre. Yet, recent undertakings in the bitcoin industry are working on solutions which may allow billions of transactions per second to be made in a model similar to the routing system employed by today’s internet infrastructure. If bitcoin is capable of scaling to billions of transactions per second by using this routing system, network scaling issues would no longer persist and a new velocity of money could empower considerable economic growth.

THE LIGHTNING NETWORK

One of the solutions currently in development for scaling the bitcoin network in order to accommodate more transactions is known as the Lighting Network. The Lightning Network proposal holds that millions or even billions of transactions could be made per second by routing payments through the blockchain rather than storing data for each individual change in ownership. With this type of payment infrastructure, parties could send transactions to each other without requiring every movement of money to be recorded in the bitcoin blockchain, potentially reducing the burden of current network payload.

The creators behind the lightning network, Joseph Poon and Tadge Dryja, envision a system where supernodes are charged with verifying large groups of transactions to the main bitcoin blockchain. These supernodes would act as “minimally trusted intermediaries” and be the custodians between the blockchain and lightning payment channels.

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I have an account we use on this forum for business use (rather than personal use), but I cannot reset the password because the email never arrives.

I know the account username and email, only not the password.

Could a mod please PM me so we can get access to our account?

Thank you.

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When an individual makes a transaction on the bitcoin network, no actual currency is moved. That is, no file has moved. No commodity or asset has moved. No private or public key has moved. Rather, the only thing which changes is the percentage of the blockchain ledger which User A & B claim control over. When a transaction occurs in the realm of bitcoin, the image of the blockchain is altered. Nothing ever changes but the composition of this blockchain record.

The blockchain is a recorded snapshot of the bitcoin digital economy.

Money is now an image, rather than something which can be separated from the system itself. This image of money is being constructed, altered, and verified by the thousands of machines acting as miners across the globe, and it’s a composition on public display for all to see. The miners are the painters of this network composition. The users, the brush and strokes.

When I first heard about bitcoin, my immediate inclination was to jump on my computer and search "bitcoin forum". Naturally, this brought me to BitcoinTalk where I remain an active poster today. That 2012 query has completed changed the course of my life as well as my financial status. It has been show to me that the best place to learn deeply about a subject, when there are no other available options, is an online community. BitcoinTalk was and still is that community for me and today I would like to express my gratitude today by giving back to the community here:

For the first 21 people who use the code "BitcoinTalk.org" for our Bitcoin Professional Course, they will receive a seat in our course at no charge. We have been compiling research on bitcoin as a software and money system since 2012, roughly the same time I joined this very forum.

If you are someone who is interested in learning more about bitcoin on a deep level, and considering the implications of digital money, I encourage you to take a look at our Bitcoin Professional Course. It has already been well received by the community and we would like to continue further development on it. Students who are enrolled today will have the course content made available to them as long as we continue to update the materials.

Go here now to claim your spot: https://diginomics.com/product/bitcoin-course/

I am hoping to get some valuable feedback on this course.

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We would like to invite the BitcoinTalk community here to engage in a social media contest where we choose a daily winner to enroll in our Bitcoin Economics Course. This course covers the economics fundamentals of bitcoin and the technical operation of the bitcoin network. Already, a number of professionals in the bitcoin industry have register for, and contributed to, this course which we bring to you today.

How can you gain entry to this course for $0? What we are making available to the BitcoinTalk community here within the next 7 days, is a chance to win a sponsored ticket into the course.

In order to win a sponsored ticket, students must like our Facebook page, from where we will choose a daily winner to join the class. Join this social media contest as we make this course available to the bitcoin community where they can learn about the economic foundations of bitcoin and digital money.

We will choose one daily winner from the users who have liked our page, and users who did not win today, will still have a chance to claim their spot in the course tomorrowas we choose one winner per day. People who enter today will have the highest probability of winning a seat into this course.

As for the people chosen, we ask that you make a comment in this thread to prove the validity of this contest and that we have indeed granted entry to the Bitcoin Economics Course.

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