Explore Venice

Explore Venice with Google Maps


Experience the streets and canals of Venice through 360-degree panoramic Street View imagery, now available in Google Maps.

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http://www.guugll.eu/explore-venice/

Karen Sandler Interviewed

Karen Sandler Interviewed by Jeremy Allison


Jeremy Allison of Google’s Open Source Programs Office interviewing Karen Sandler, Executive Director of the Gnome Foundation. Interview was conducted March 25th at the Free Software Foundation’s 2012 LibrePlanet conference in Boston, MA.

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http://www.guugll.eu/karen-sandler-interviewed/

Glass: Make it simple

Google Design Minutes — Glass: Make it simple


Isabelle Olson talks about the focus her team put into making Glass simple, and how simplicity guided all the decisions they made

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http://www.guugll.eu/glass-make-simple/

Chinese Bitcoin Exchanges Adapt

Huobi made an announcement to their website on 4/17/14.


尊敬的火币网用户：

为了解决非工作时间充值到账较慢的问题，火币网经过和点卡代理商协商后，我们将于今日17：00恢复点卡充值服务，支持所有主流银行充值，7*24小时即时到账。欢迎各位币友体验。

Dear Valued Huobi customers:

In order to resolve the current issues with recharges during off hours, and as a result of Huobi negotiations with recharge card dealers, today at 17:00 we will be resuming our recharge card services. It’s supported at all major banks, and is fully functional 24/7. We welcome you to come experience our coins.

Bitcoin in China is all business as usual, with individual Chinese Bitcoin Exchanges adapting quickly to changing regulatory environments. What we are seeing is one Exchange experimenting with a new type of recharge method, and weeks later (after old methods are closed) other Exchanges launch the exact same recharge method. Currently, most Chinese exchanges are on recharge cards which can still be filled up with RMB at most major banks. OKCoin is experimenting with codes with two parts similar to a public and private key and BTC China’s Picasso Web App could potentially function just like Mycelium’s Local Trader App, which I recommend to Chinese users.

OKCoin Dropped By China Construction Bank

OKCoin received oral notice from their local branch of the China Construction Bank that their services were to be suspended. OKCoin published the news in Chinese, but OKCOIN Rep also took to /r/Bitcoin to post an English translation, much to everyone’s delight.

Bank recharge suspension details:

On 4/18 at 10:00 OKcoin will formally stop using our Construction Bank Shangdi(a neighborhood of Beijing) account to recharge users’ account. Recharging at other banks is not a problem, they have not been affected. As always, withdrawals are working without issue and aren’t affected. If we receive any new information we will be the first to let you know.

OKCoin has earned those who invest on our site’s trust as we are a very professional exchange. We have been proactive in responding to these events and are always taking precautions for anything that might occur. We know that this notice will undoubtedly come under criticism; but as a platform we can only be impartial, timely, and efficient. We know that policy adjustments(the bank changed it’s policy, not the government) will have an effect on the domestic BTC market, but we also know that Bitcoin includes the entire globe. Today we are all Bitcoiners(literally people of bitcoin).

Our current emergency(i wouldn’t consider this an emergency, it’s more of a language problem, 应急 means urgent needs, but translates as emergency) plans are as follows:

OKCoin is currently linking up with other financial service providers and creating more avenues for recharging accounts.

Our recharge code details are to be announced soon.

Our foreign management team is currently working on finishing the foreign/english/global website.

We are currently working with Bitocean for the upcoming production of our ATMs.

On a side note, I’m in the office right now and nothing has changed, nobodies freaking out, everything is fine. We have many other ways for users to recharge their accounts and most importantly withdrawals have in no way been affected.

More OKCoin ATM Details Revealed

OKCoin Rep also invited Redditors to PM him for clarification on any Chinese news. Like BTC China, OKCoin is working to develop a Bitcoin ATM to somewhat circumvent any future or ongoing PBOC actions. We must remember, the other regulatory bodies in the Chinese government haven’t yet brought their weight to bear. Unlike BTC China, OKCoin’s ATM has not yet been revealed to the world. The OKCoin ATM will be revealed at the Bitcoin Summit in Beijing on 5/10/14. OKCoin has revealed their ATM partner as Bitocean (BTCOCEAN). From the design it is kind of obvious that the OKCoin Bitcoin “ATM” will be unidirectional, I welcome a correction though.

source: http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/news/chinese-bitcoin-exchanges-adapt-huobi-resumes-recharge-cards-okcoin-reveals-atm-partner/2014/04/17

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http://www.guugll.eu/chinese-bitcoin-exchanges-adapt/

BitcoinClix

This is another PTC site paying in Bitcoin.


Relatively new on the block, but seems to have a good system in place. There are fewer ads but they are pretty consistent. Ads need to be viewed for 30 seconds for the equivalent of $0.01 paid in Bitcoin of course.

Member Benefits

Earn up to 0.0112 mBTC per click.

Earn 5% from your referrals clicks, as a Basic member.

Earn 30% from your referrals clicks, 5% from upgrades and purchases as a Premium member.

Get 80% from downline, 50% when they upgrade and 40% from their purchases as Co-Founder.

Investment or Miner Token with 3% referral bonus.

Cloud merge mining BTC, DVC, NMC, IXC coins as Basic Member.

Low Minimum payout 10 mBTC. 5 levels referral program.

Advertiser Benefits

Affordable advertising starting at 0.00199 mBTC.

Demographic targeting.

Many valuable offers.

24 hours unique hits with 120, 60, 30, 10 secs timer.

Detailed Statistics.

Strong anti-cheat protection.

Track your traffic in a detailed adpanel.

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http://www.guugll.eu/bitcoinclix/

BTC China Introduces Picasso Web Wallet

As I mentioned yesterday, OKCoin and BTC China both announced “The First Bitcoin ATM in China” yesterday.


BTC China Bobby Lee wanted to show the world that 4/15/14 is just another day for Bitcoiners. There isn’t a magical guillotine from the PBOC that will be dropped today, as rumors of a private PBOC notice circulated only to banks and 3rd party payment processors requiring stricter adherence to the 12/5/13 notice finally peter out. Bobby Lee took to CNBC for an exclusive interview to highlight to somewhat ignorant mainstream media that Bitcoin “defies talk of China crackdown.” At this moment, after 4/15/14 is coming to an end in China, there are still methods to deposit Chinese RMB into various Chinese exchanges, methods pioneered by BTC China. In conjunction with BTC China’s show of strength today, BTC China released two beneficial items that they are calling ATMs: A physical Lamassu, and a new ‘soft Bitcoin ATM’ interface utilizing their browser-based Bitcoin wallet titled Picasso.

As promised in their weibo, BTC China revealed a Bitcoin “ATM” in Shanghai today. The machine was none other than a Lamassu Bitcoin “ATM” which functions as a vending machine and does not have bi-directional capabilities. While the general populace is increasingly loose in using the word “ATM” the fact remains that two way functionality is the actual hallmark of success in the emulation of a fiat ATM. However, compared with the Picasso Web Wallet, which has been called a Web ATM… At least the Lamassu is certifiably automated.

As Of Now, Picasso Is Not An Automated Teller Machine

TechCrunch posted this headline earlier today: BTC China Launches ATM Web App, in reference to BTC China’s new Picasso feature: 币加锁. Your Picasso Web Wallet allows you to do one of two things: Send and Receive Bitcoin. Transactions to Bitcoin addresses outside of BTC China’s control require transaction confirmations. However, BTC China will allow Picasso users to send their funds to their BTC China exchange account in-house and instantaneously. BTC China explicitly states in their FAQ that:

It is best to store Bitcoins on your Exchange account when you are actively trading. When you do not plan on trading for a period of time, it is recommended that you store your Bitcoins in your Picasso wallet.

You’ll want to keep your Bitcoins in Picasso because there they are in BTC China’s cold storage system, which they originally announced back in Decemeber as well. There’s also a 10 BTC daily limit on the amount of BTC that you can send from Picasso to external (non BTC China) accounts. This Picasso Web Wallet functions as a Teller Machine if and only if an interested party can locate a fellow Picasso user and convince him or her to trade their Bitcoins in exchange for fiat currency. As BTC China is quick to note, that transaction could occur in any fiat currency, it is no longer just limited to Chinese Yuan. BTC China also believes that small businesses such as coffee shops could use this app on their phone to become buy/sell hubs of BTC. However, the process I just described is incredibly far from automated. Calling the Picasso an ATM requires a disgusting stretch to the definition of ‘ATMs’, it also implies that Coinbase’s and Blockchain’s webwallets are also ATMs. They’ve never made such a ridiculous claim and BTC China shouldn’t either.

source: http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/news/btc-china-introduces-picasso-web-wallet-lamassu-vending-machine-atm/2014/04/15

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http://www.guugll.eu/btc-china-introduces-picasso-web-wallet/

Worldcoin crypto-currency to see major improvements

The crypto-currency Worldcoin—praised by many for its extremely fast transaction times, at least 20x faster than Bitcoin—will be adding some important new features over the next few weeks.


The WDC developers are confident about releasing the major network upgrades by the end of April and an Android wallet shortly thereafter. Most of the upgrades—such as automatic checkpointing, super seed nodes, and a new difficulty algorithm—are part of project “Worldshield”, which is aimed at further increasing the security and integrity of Worldcoin.

(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140414/MN03877)

Pavel Dolzhenko, a member of the Worldcoin Alliance Committee explains the reasons for these additions: “Numerous hardware manufacturers are currently developing ASIC miners for Scrypt-based crypto-currencies at high pace. Once these processing units are available, many—mostly new—crypto-currencies will be swept away because they lack proper protection mechanisms. Worldshield will not only prevent multipool abuse, 51% attacks, and other ASIC-generated disruptions, but it will also allow modifications to handle new threats as quickly as possible.”

In addition to the new features expected near the end of April, the Worldcoin Alliance just recently (April 3rd) released a crowdfunding platform where WDC users are able to introduce and support a variety of projects, many of them charitable. One such project, a water well in Kenya, has already been funded, and the borehole is expected to be completed by the end of September. More information about the Worldcoin well can be found here: http://thewaterproject.org/community/projects/kenya/a-new-well-in-kenya-4281

About the Worldcoin Alliance

The Worldcoin Alliance represents a group of motivated Worldcoin users which decided to step up and voluntarily participate in developing, implementing and communicating Worldcoin related projects. Our members come from all over the world including the U.S., Canada, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Finland and Austria.

source: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/worldcoin-crypto-currency-see-major-131200805.html

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http://www.guugll.eu/worldcoin-crypto-currency-to-see-major-improvements/