Category: BTC
Recognizing Recent Efforts By Volunteer Contributors on the Translation Team
Through continued donations and support from the community, we’re thankful to have recently been able to send out over $15,000 USD worth of bitcoin as a gesture of gratitude to people who volunteer to help translate bitcoin.org and spread the word about Bitcoin. Each month, contributors are helping localize bitcoin.org so that more people around…
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A New Design for Wallet Pages
A new, more user-friendly and simple set of pages designed to help people find an ideal bitcoin wallet is now available. It includes a step-by-step wizard to help people become more familiar with wallets, ratings to compare how they stack up alongside other wallets, as well as explanations of features they provide in order to…
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Facebook May Be One of the Reasons Behind the Upswing of Bitcoin
Cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin, became one amongst the foremost widespread assets within the last years. They give the impression of being the leading common and safe way in which to avoid losing your money. However, their worth gave the impression to have stuck to a degree in recent months. With no variations, many folks stopped their […]
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Bitcoin.org Content Now Available in 25+ Languages
Bitcoin is Spreading Over the the past year, as part of Bitcoin.org’s ongoing content translation initiative to help spread information about Bitcoin all around the world, many people have helped extend and update the site into their own native languages. Thanks to community donations and a sponsorship from Paxful, translators throughout 2018 received bitcoin bonuses…
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How to Help Translate Bitcoin.org
If you’re a fluent or native speaker of a language other than English, this blog post will help you learn how to get started translating Bitcoin.org so that more people around the world who speak your language can learn about Bitcoin. Thank you to Simon AKA “Komodorpudel” for preparing content to help organize this post.…
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A Big Thanks to Recent Translators
Acknowledging Recent Translators Thanks to a sponsorship from Paxful, the following volunteer translators who have been the most active contributors in recent months are being given bitcoin for their efforts: Abegi FrancescoGalati JurgenH Kasvain Komodorpudel Kruell233 MedMus Rasakila Thalesfcastro Vinifire YummyPT alanst alexandra.cg15 bernat buren chrisper cocoklogi crynvestor dalovar def1ne echo4py enriquecartagena excess fjrojasgarcia hzxswyg…
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Bitcoin.org is 10 Years Old!
Bitcoin.org, registered August 18, 2008 This month marks 10 years since the bitcoin.org domain was registered. Bitcoin.org was originally registered and owned by Bitcoin’s first two developers, Satoshi Nakamoto and Martti Malmi. When Satoshi left the project, he gave ownership of the domain to additional people, separate from the Bitcoin developers, to spread responsibility and…
Continue ReadingA New Supporting Sponsorship from Paxful
Supporting Sponsorship from Paxful Paxful, a leading P2P exchange that helps people buy bitcoin, has become a supporting sponsor of Bitcoin.org. Since the Bitcoin Foundation sponsorship ended in 2015, Bitcoin.org has been self-funded by the domain owners and by community donations. This quarterly supporting sponsorship (which can potentially be renewed) will help bolster and catalyze…
Continue ReadingAlert Key and Alert System Vulnerabilities Disclosure
The bitcoin alert keys are disclosed in this blog post, followed by a description of the purpose of this information and its history. The bitcoin alert system has been completely retired. The network is not at risk and this warning may be safely ignored if you do not have an ancient node (running v0.12.x or…
Continue ReadingHelp Test Bitcoin.org’s New Design Before Launch
A Redesigned Bitcoin.org One of our goals in 2018 has been to modernize the look and feel of Bitcoin.org. Each day, tens of thousands of new users come to Bitcoin.org to learn how to get started using the currency and technology. The site has grown exponentially in popularity as Bitcoin adoption has increased. Last year…
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