Colin Harper, Blockspace Media

Colin writes about Bitcoin. Formerly, he worked at CoinDesk as a tech reporter and Luxor Technology Corp. as head of research. Now, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Blockspace Media, and he also freelances for CoinDesk, Forbes and Bitcoin Magazine. He holds bitcoin.

Colin Harper, Blockspace Media

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Technologies

Nigerian Banks Shut Them Out, so These Activists Are Using Bitcoin to Battle Police Brutality

As End SARS protests against police brutality surge through Nigeria, the Feminist Coalition has turned to bitcoin as a financial lifeline.

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Technologies

Taproot Has Been Merged Into Bitcoin Core: Here's What That Means

Bitcoin’s long-awaited Taproot update is one step closer to fruition.

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Technologies

Brainwallets: The Bitcoin Wallet You Probably Shouldn’t Use (Unless You Have To)

A “brainwallet” refers to a private key that is stored in the user’s memory in the form of a seed phrase or a passphrase.

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Technologies

This Self-Sovereign ‘DocuSign’ Uses Bitcoin for Digital Proofs

Woleet provides a digital ID software suite which allows its clients to authenticate documents and signatures using Bitcoin’s blockchain.

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Technologies

DeFi Degens Hit Hard by Eminence Exploit Will Be Partially Compensated

DeFi traders piled into a token that was still in testing. After an exploit sent Eminence to zero, affected users are receiving restitution.

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Technologies

MakerDAO Adds Chainlink, Compound, Loopring as Collateral Options

MakerDAO has voted to add support for a trio of new tokens for the decentralized finance (DeFi) loans that generate DAI stablecoins.

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Technologies

BitcoinACKs Lets You Track Bitcoin Development and Pay Coders for Their Work

BitcoinACKs aggregates pull requests for upgrades to Bitcoin Core and lets users pay for the Bitcoin development they want to see.

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Technologies

This Entrepreneur Was SIM-Swapped so Often, He Started a Company to Fight It

Efani’s solution to SIM-swapping? Make it so difficult to make changes to a cell phone account that an attack is virtually impossible.

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Technologies

Blockchain Commons Internship Introduces New Developers to Open Source

The Blockchain Commons took on seven interns this year to build out the organization’s many open-source projects.

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Finance

BRD Is Breaking Into the Crypto Compliance Game

The new tech stack will provide AML and compliance tools for financial institutions, government agencies and cryptocurrency service providers.

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