Questions concerned with the structure, members, and work of the Bitcoin Foundation.
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Do "the official bitcoin developers" control Bitcoin?
Is there one person or organization that controls Bitcoin?
What if Gavin Andresen, the lead developer, or Bitcoin Foundation, "the official bitcoin organization", decide to change something? What if they release a new version of the software that…
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Bitcoin Best Practices by the Bitcoin Foundation
The Bitcoin Foundation's Executive Director, Peter Vessenes, in his open letter states that the Foundation is aiming to
Publish a set of best practices for businesses transacting in Bitcoin, covering topics from accounting to physical and digital…
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What "Identity Verification" features will be part of the QT client?
When Patrick Murck testified today at the Homeland Security Digital Currency committee, he mentioned that an identity verification feature will be added to the QT client.
What is this identity verification feature, and how does it work?
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What is the Bitcoin Foundation?
The Bitcoin Foundation launched recently. What is it all about and what are its goals?
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What are the challenges ahead of bitcoin foundation?
What are the challenges ahead of bitcoin foundation? What are the issues they currently working on? How to track their activities?
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Is the reference client of Bitcoin regularly audited?
I imagine that plenty of eyes have combed through the reference client's source code. But the code is still changing for a variety of reasons (features, patches, improvements, etc).
I didn't find that much information regarding security audits other…
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Bitcoin nodes voting
I'm just watching Adam Back & Gregory Maxwell: Blockstream and Sidechains interview, and wondering how the decision of further Bitcoin core development are made. I know about Bitcoin Foundation, but I do not think that board members represent…
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Who controls the features added to the bitcoin network?
I read an article on cryptocoinsnews about sidechains and they said bitcoin can implement new features but any bugs would be dangerous to the whole bitcoin network. What I don't understand is who would be adding new features? Are there some people…
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Bitcoin core balance won't show up!
I have bitcoin core wallet i havent use since 2013. i let it sync fully now but it won't show my bitcoin balance and this shows up.....
Warning: Unknown block versions being mined! It's possible unknown rules are in effect.
can someone tell me what…
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Could miners possibly steal SegWit transactions on The Real Bitcoin?
Going to be lolz epic when all the SegWit transactions are double-spent, i.e. stolen by miners on The Real Bitcoin (the legacy Satoshi blockchain).
Can anyone offer any refutation, confirmation, or more thorough explanation of this?
EDIT Sept, 26,…
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