Julian Assange speaks to CBC’s Jian Ghomeshi about his health, vilification and, as he sees it, Google’s close relationship with the U.S. government
Monday, September 29, 2014
Cy Tokmakjian's family disputes Cuba charges after Canadian sentenced
The family of a 74-year-old Canadian businessman sentenced in Cuba to 15 years in prison on corruption-related charges says he didn’t do anything wrong.
Ebola on the streets: CBC's Adrienne Arsenault in Monrovia
Life in Monrovia is rapidly changing, now that Ebola has struck so savagely, and CBC senior correspondent Adrienne Arsenault is there to report on the impact of the virus on the crowded capital city of Liberia.
MaxCoin v0.9.3.1 Release Notes
The MaxCoin protocol will be modified on Thursday 18th September 2014 (GMT) to address a fix for the wallet synchronisation issue and will change the target block time to 60s from block 635000.
Updated branding and a new wallet security menu have also been added. The total number of coins to be mined will remain unchanged at 100,000,000. A checkpointing protocol will be implemented in order to provide additional security to the blockchain.
A VirusTotal link has been provided here as, on occasion, Chrome will block downloads due to the IRC bootstrapping and mining code within MaxCoin. The problem is known and we’re in contact with Google about possible solutions.
To prevent loss of your coins DO NOT send any transactions using the old MaxCoin wallet software after block 635,000. You must update your MaxCoin wallet by downloading the new version from either github or maxcoin.co.uk prior to sending coins from your wallet, or they may be lost. If you are keeping your coins on an exchange (while not advisable) you will not have any problems as long as you eventually withdraw the coins to the updated wallet software.
Technical Changelog
Increased block time to 60s
Reduced block reward to 16 MAX
Added automatic-checkpointing
Fixed ‘copy transaction ID’ bug in UI
Added dumppubkey RPC call
Improved sign/verify UI
Changed sign/verify to use hex encoding
Changed makekeypair to use hex encoding
Backup and safety measures
Create a backup copy of your wallet.dat file before upgrading! Follow the directions on this page to find the location of your wallet.dat. This is the only file you need to recover if anything goes wrong. Before running the new wallet make sure to remove these commands (“checkpointenforce=false”, “-reindex”) from your shortcuts or maxcoin.conf configuration file!
source: http://maxcoinnews.net/maxcoin-v0-9-3-1-release-notes/
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DarkCoin prepares to OpenSource
Security researcher Kristov Atlas has concluded his code review and security audit of Darkcoin.
He was solicited by the developers of Darkcoin, based on 4+ years of professionally reviewing C/C++ software, to review the code and suggest any changes which could improve the software. Kristov Atlas concluded that Darkcoin’s claims of functional anonymity are well-founded. He did suggest a few concerns, which the Darkcoin team immediately fixed (the fixes will be released Monday as part of the next scheduled update to the Darkcoin client). Mr. Atlas’ primary concern was that a bad actor could launch a so-called Sybil attack against the network. Evan Duffield, lead developer of Darkcoin, closed this potential attack vector and in doing so also found a way to increase the overall anonymity of Darkcoin transactions.
The new update to Darkcoin, “Release Candidate 5″ (RC5), will be made publically available Monday, September 22. It fixes the concerns raised by Mr. Atlas, increases anonymity, fixes bugs, and improves the user experience by implementing a new interface. After eight months of continuous improvement, the developers of Darkcoin are confident that the currency is finally ready to meet the scrutiny of coders world-wide. Duffield has announced that on September 29, the source code of Darkcoin’s Darksend technology will be opened and published. This is the final piece of the overall system to be opened up. Darkcoin will then become the first fully open-source, decentralized, anonymous crypto-currency in the industry.
Future plans include the adoption of a new Instant Transactions technology which Duffield has described in his whitepaper [https://www.darkcoin.io/downloads/InstantTX.pdf]. This technology will allow Darkcoin to compete with other nearly instantaneous transaction systems such as credit cards. If successful, such an idea could revolutionize crypto-currencies by providing a decentralized payment system usable in retail stores and other face-to-face situations. The delay between sending and confirming transactions would be reduced from one hour (with currencies such as Bitcoin) to as little as twenty seconds. A future press release will describe the system in greater detail.
The Darkcoin client and more information can be obtained at their website: http://www.darkcoin.io.
About Darkcoin:
Bitcoin works with an unprecedented level of transparency that most people are not used to dealing with. Every transaction that has ever happened is stored permanently in a ledger that is made public for the world to see, forever.
Darkcoin solves this problem by implementing an ahead-of-time CoinJoin implementation called Darksend. A user that wants to be anonymous can use the built-in technology to utilize the Masternode network to make their transaction nearly impossible to track.
source: http://www.cryptoarticles.com/crypto-news/darkcoin-passes-security-review-prepares-to-open-source
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Litecoin into the Retail World
Bitcoin has a huge advantage over other altcoins for one simple reason: Because other cryptocurrencies such as Litecoin or Dogecoin are rarely if ever accepted by merchants for retail purchases. They have been used either for investments or storehouses of value.
Bitcoin on the other hand has recently been added to the payment options of some of the largest retail and services businesses in the world. But now, users of the new and free ShapeShift platform can order any products or services from any company that accepts Bitcoin and use altcoins instead to pay.
It was just last week that PayPal announced that its merchants would now be able to accept Bitcoin, which opens the popular cryptocurrency up to potentially eight million businesses worldwide, and now Litecoin might be able to take advantage of this service by piggybacking Bitcoin.
ShapeShift is a groundbreaking new idea that has the potential to level the cryptocurrency playing field. To date, Bitcoin has held its dominance because of merchant acceptance and by being first on the crypto scene. Butthe fact is that Litecoin is much less cumbersome to use unless you are buying a new Mercedes Benz or Lake House.
Litecoins were designed, according to founder Charlie Lee, to work with smaller purchases, and to supplement, not replace Bitcoin. Meanwhile, Bitcoin serves perfectly for larger purchases and as a secure asset storage vehicle. ShapeShift, however, allows its users to store assets in Bitcoin and spend them using the more liquid Litecoin.
ShapeShift Founder Beorn Gonthier is from Switzerland and has been a finance and economics hobbyist for some time. He became addicted to the idea of Bitcoin in 2011 and the idea for ShapeShift came to him in February of 2014. He quickly realized that the task of setting up different accounts and buying various coins was simply too difficult for most people and that there needed to be a way to buy one coin while being able to spend them across a wider spectrum of coins if desired.
According to its founder, ShapeShift does not deal with fiat currencies in any way. The company keeps a supply of various coins, distributing them as needed. Thus, it is a consumer oriented trading platform that acts as an instant exchange and payment platform simultaneously. If a customer has Litecoin for instance, they will trade Bitcoin to ShapeShift and ShapeShift will first make the trade and the pay the merchant in BTC. Large orders do however require a single step confirmation process.
Since fees are always an issue, so Gonthier explained the charges that users may incur:
First, our system is looking around the various altcoin markets and determines a price at which we’re willing to sell our coins (this is our exchange rate). This price we offer includes any profit we make (so there are no extra fees). However, our profit is not exact, because we’re buying coins separately to replenish our reserves if they get low.
So, sometimes we make less, sometimes more, and sometimes we even lose money on a trade. But our algorithms for handling this risk are one of ShapeShift’s advantages. Our margins are pretty small though, the site won’t really make money any time soon.
Our goal is to ensure that our pricing is always competitive, so if people look around in the market they’ll generally find ours attractive. One great advantage of buying on ShapeShift is that there is no price slippage… so if you buy 10 Litecoins you know exactly what rate you get on the full order. A traditional exchange website has slippage, where you may get 2.421 LTC for a certain price, and the next 1.5322 for a slightly worse price, and so on, based on the depth of the market. If you put in a specific bid order on a normal exchange, you will know the price you get, but you may have to wait a minute, or a week, for the order to fill.
ShapeShift employs Gonthier, three developers and marketer as well as a few other team members. Currently still in Beta testing, ShapeShift is currently only exchanging Litecoin and Bitcoin but has plans to move forward apace with adding a full spectrum of virtual currencies to their list. Beta testing is expected to end in October and, if all works well, this new service promises to be groundbreaking.
source: http://cointelegraph.com/news/112615/altcoin-merchant-boost-shapeshift-brings-litecoin-into-the-retail-world
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Encana scoops up Texas-based Athlon in $7.1B deal
Encana Corp. has agreed to buy Athlon Energy in a $7.1 billion US friendly takeover deal that will give the Canadian gas producer access to a major Texas oil play and speed up its shift towards more liquids production.
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