There are many advantages of altcoins, some of which include faster transaction speeds and more secure mining algorithms. However, many altcoins fall into scams and give in to quick pump and dumps which inhibits altcoin potential. We have heard alot about dogecoin, which is a litecoin based cryptocurrency that took off as a meme and received alot of media attention. However, now we have PonziDoge – A dogecoin ponzi scheme, which is …
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Coinpunk is a bitcoin wallet platform. It is open source and is available for free, you can see the repository HERE In the docs section there are available tutorials on how to install coinpunk on OSX and Ubuntu. However there isn’t one on how to install coinpunk on Centos. While Ubuntu and Centos are both linux distros the installation procedure must be modified. In this tutorial I will try to walk …
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Yelp officially announced on April 10th that it would add a feature for businesses to show if they accept bitcoin. It is a simple feature but shows that bitcoin is still being adopted. quoted from yelps official blog post:   As a business owner, you can let your customers know you’re accepting Bitcoin by logging into your free business owner tools on biz.yelp.com and updating your payment attributes.   Rumors about Yelp …
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