Archive for July, 2014

  • INTERVIEW: 5 QUESTIONS WITH DAVID ZIMBECK, DEVELOPER OF BLACKHALO/BITHALO

    INTERVIEW: 5 QUESTIONS WITH DAVID ZIMBECK, DEVELOPER OF BLACKHALO/BITHALO

    One of the main hallmarks of a healthy cryptocurrency is the community that springs up around it. When that community then takes the ideas and the codebase and creates new products, services, or movements, a type of self-sustaining ‘ecology’ emerges. That community inertia can keep an altcoin moving forward past all expectations (Dogecoin), and it will

  • Buy Blackcoin with Anycoin Direct

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  • MONEY & TECH: Blackcoin’s BlackHalo

      Here are today’s top stories in Money & Tech: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand‘s deputy governor Geoff Bascand spoke highly of digital currencies at this weekend’s Royal Numismatic Society in Wellington, describing them as a “challenge to the form and provenance” of money. In his speech, Bascand said, “[Bitcoin] is a very low cost

  • Bithalo, Blackhalo, and NightTrader: Revolutionary Smart Contracts Technology Now in Beta

    Central banks complain today that innovation in cryptocurrency is too quick, and business adoption is too fast, for them to prepare their laws and lay down their rules as Moses did from the high mountain. Cryptocurrencies’ response was to switch innovation to second gear by inching closer towards the implementation of smart contracts. David Zimbeck announced today

  • Blackwave Labs Active and in Development Projects

    Blackwave Labs Active and in Development Projects

    Blackwave Labs is a collective of software developers and system administrators dedicated to building enterprise-grade solutions for Blackcoin. Blackwave Labs will actively develop primarily open source solutions and contribute to the Blackcoin protocol. Blackwave Labs is looking for more developers and designers, send resume and sample work to the address below. Projects in Development Onyx

  • Blackcoin’s Proof of Stake 2.0

    Blackcoin’s Proof of Stake 2.0

    The staking giant Blackcoin recently announced that it has revamped the traditional proof of stake (PoS) algorithm and will be releasing it in their next update, calling it Proof of Stake 2.0. Some of the details of the updated version of PoS were released in Blackcoin‘s PoS protocol V2 Whitepaper (link). Among other things, the new PoS system will

  • Mandatory wallet update with PoS 2.0

    Mandatory wallet update with PoS 2.0

    IMPORTANT OFFICIAL NEWS Mandatory update v1.1.0 Changelog:If you are updating from version older than 1.0.7, blockchain will be redownloadedHardfork at block 319000 (see whitepaper)Fixed a few DoS vulnerabilitiesFixed wallet relock on sending coins when “for staking only” is activatedRelay OP_RETURN data TxOut as standard transaction type Downloads Linux 64-bit v1.1.0 Windows 32-bit v1.1.0 Mac v1.1.0