Questions tagged [project]

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What is the status on webminers?

Are there any ongoing projects trying to develop a widely accessible WebCL-powered mining software? I've heard of two in the past, but their websites don't seem to be working any more.
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Who made Gavin project leader?

I mean no disrespect to Gavin Andresen whatsoever. I think someone needs to be at the head of the project and Satoshi has stepped down / disappeared / gone back to the NSA / returned to his home planet / choose your conspiracy theory. But why Gavin?…
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What would happen to people's money if the Bitcoin project was discontinued?

Here in the Arabic world the biggest problem with online trading is the absence of a good, secure, and flexible money transfer tool or solution. I think Bitcoin is a great solution for this. I have an idea to start a payment processing service using…
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Bitcoin promotional campaigns

Have there been any notable promotional campaigns for the Bitcoin project or some of the major Bitcoin-relatd websites?
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How does bitcoin make profit?

I am wondering how the Bitcoin program makes profit if there are no advertisements or taxes? How do the owners make money off of this?
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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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Implementing a Blockchain at the very basic level?

My question may sound a bit confusing so a bit of a background is in order. I am doing my Computer Engineering Final Year Project related to parallel processing and GPGPUs. i'll be working on implementing the Blockchain architecture on GPGPUs. To…
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What are the major reasons for various Bitcoin-related projects' downfall?

The Bitcoin community is a very dynamic place, especially when the USD/BTC exchange rates are high. Many Bitcoin-related projects have sprung up in the past, but a lot of them failed for various reasons. What are the major reasons for such projects…
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Looking for a Project Ideas

Im a student at Sri Lanka institute of information technology and I am reading for cyber security BSc. I'm supposed to do a research project with a group of four people within an year. We are preferring to do our research project in bitcoin domain.…
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What does the Bitcoin community need the most now?

The Bitcoin project has grown many-fold since its creation, but since we haven't taken over the world yet, there is still some room for growth;). Is there some consensus on what does the Bitcoin project need the most at the current moment? That is,…
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Open source bitcoin projects?

Is anyone involved in any open source projects? Anyone know of any? Maybe a nice list of different classes of projects would be good, I'd like to get my hands on some projects.
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