Bitcoin startup 21 Inc announced it had open-sourced its software this weekend, a move that finds it following through on statements by the firm's co-founder and CEO, Balaji Srinivasan, at CoinDesk's Consensus event last month.
The release coincides with a stronger articulation of the company's long-term vision, one that will find it seeking to enable micropayments via APIs services for developers as part of a broader transition it calls the 'third web'.
This terminology, the company argues, helps articulate the transition from the World Wide Web of documents and hyperlinks, to the social web, to one where economics are now involved because of bitcoin.
http://www.coindesk.com/21-inc-open-sources-code-to-enable-machine-payable-web/
