How Bitcoin Could Solve The Streaming Wars
The internet has changed how we consume media; if you consider two to three decades ago, before high-speed bandwidth, if you wanted to watch a movie in the comfort of your home, you would need a VCR, BetaMax Player, DVD player or Blu-Ray player. Once you had the equipment to decode the information, you still […]
Bitcoin App: Slice
If you’re using the popular gateways of the internet in search engines like Google or Bing, or social media applications like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and the like, then you’ve probably had your daily fill of online ads. Many of us have become fed up with having ads forced on our faces whenever we view an […]
Bitcoin App: lnshort.it
Getting people attention online is hard enough, with newsfeeds continuing to be slammed with content and trying to convince people to click on a long, jumbled link is not an easy sell. People spend very little time looking at posts in their feed, and if your post isn’t as clean and attention-grabbing as possible, you’ll […]
What Is Magma by Amboss?
The Lightning Network is a second-layer protocol created to scale bitcoin payments by creating a web of payment channels that settle balances with one another instead of on the bitcoin blockchain. Every payment channel you create is based on a bitcoin UTXO locked up with a hashed time lock contract, and as users create different […]
Bitcoin App: Silent Link
The world of digital communications is filled with centralised points of failure and surveillance tech at every corner. When it comes to an email, we have privacy options, or the extreme option would be to run a mail server of your own. When it comes to instant messaging there are privacy tools that range in […]
Bitcoin App: StakWork
Bitcoin is money for the internet; its programmable nature unlocks potential monetisation opportunities and efficiency at scale. Imagine a future where you could send out a task and have 100 or 1000 people have a look at it and complete it for you, and you pay them for the 5 – 10 minutes they took […]
Bitcoin App: LN Markets
Bitcoin is often labelled boring and stuffy, the trusted boomer coin that keeps going reliably without fail; it’s got no innovation going for it, so why focus on it, right? To an extent, these critics are correct; bitcoin is boring because it’s a savings technology, it’s meant to be mind-numbingly boring and reliable, but it’s […]
Bitcoin App: Lightning Video
As the internet becomes a more media-rich landscape, video has become a more popular format; we see it embedded on websites, social media feeds, and, of course, the big behemoth of video platforms, YouTube, pumping out watch time in the trillions of hours each year. As internet connections become faster and cheaper, we’ve seen video […]
Bitcoin App: Geyser Fund
Bitcoin has its roots in the open source community. It’s a project that was bootstrapped by a few enthusiasts and has grown into a global settlement network where each day millions, if not billions of dollars worth, is moved every day. As the network matures, so make the applications running on top of bitcoin, and […]
How Value For Value Can Work For Bloggers
The idea of programmable money is still in its infancy, and we’re going to go through several booms and busts as people try to figure out where programmable money fits into the internet. Despite its lauded potential by many enthusiasts, we simply do not know what applications will be suited to this new method of […]