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BtcTurk is Turkey’s very first Bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange, and was also the fourth to launch worldwide. On July 1, 2013 it became the first exchange to conduct a Bitcoin to Turkish Lira transaction between BtcTurk founder Kerem Tibuk and BtcTurk CTO Ozan Yurtseven. On that date, 0.3 BTC exchanged hands, with one BTC being priced at 183 Turkish Liras.
Seven years have passed since that first Lira to Bitcoin transaction, in which time Bitcoin's price has exceeded 100,000 Turkish Liras. There have been many ups and downs during those seven years, which we have illustrated below in a table that shows the highs and lows of the Bitcoin price in those years:
The most remarkable increases in the Bitcoin price have taken place in the years following the Bitcoin reward halving, reflecting the importance of its supply reduction mechanism. Every four years the Bitcoin reward decreases by half, and Bitcoin price increases tend to follow.
Since January 3, 2009, when the first block of the Bitcoin blockchain was produced, there have been three halving events. The first halving in 2012 saw the reward to Bitcoin miners fall from 50 BTC to 25 BTC per block. This was again halved to 12.5 BTC in 2016, while the third halving, which took place on May 11 this year, reduced the reward further, to 6.25 BTC for each block mined.
Despite this decrease in supply over the years, 18.5 million BTC has been mined, which corresponds to approximately 88 per cent of Bitcoin's total production limit of 21 million. Production of the final 2.5 million BTC will take another 120 years, with the last block set to be mined in 2140.
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Other notable events include:
- Coinbase’s debit card is coming to U.S. consumers sometime next year.
- JPM Coin, the enterprise-minded digital asset stewarded by the titular global bank, will see its first transaction this week, a JPMorgan executive said.
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Coinbase card
Coinbase’s debit card is coming to U.S. consumers sometime next year. Active for nearly a year in the U.K. and European Union, the card will become available in all U.S. states except Hawaii. Any cryptocurrencies that Coinbase supports in the U.S. (and that users hold in their accounts) can be spent through the debit card – with rewards paid in lumens or bitcoin. The card is issued by South Dakota-based MetaBank and powered by payments platform Marqeta, though users will manage it directly through their Coinbase accounts, according to CoinDesk banking whisperer Nathan DiCamillo.
JPM Coin
JPM Coin, the enterprise-minded digital asset stewarded by the titular global bank, will see its first transaction this week, a JPMorgan executive said. Designed for wholesale payments and faster transactions, the system is predicted to save the banking industry hundreds of millions of dollars a year. First revealed in February 2019, JPM Coin will run on Quorum, a private version of Ethereum developed by the bank but acquired by development firm ConsenSys in August. Further, the executive told CNBC the bank has created a business unit with around 100 employees called Onyx to house related projects. “We believe we are shifting to a period of commercialization of those technologies, moving from research and development to something that can become a real business,” the executive said.
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The founder of the industry
When we mention Blockchain and Encrypted Currency, there are two people’s name we cannot ignore, Satoshi Nakamoto and V god.
In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published an article <Bitcoin: A kind of P2P digital cash system>, it represented the birth of Bitcoin, Blockchain technology was emerging as the layer technique for Bitcoin simultaneously. In the past decades, Blockchain and Bitcoin financial status and development prospect were continuously rising, many experts joined this industry in “One steps into breach as another falls situation”, but bitcoin founder satoshi nakamoto disappeared, nobody knew where he was.
Many people are trying to locate Satoshi’s real identity, even FBI has started an investigation about him, but nothing was found. In 2015, UCLA’s financial professor Bhagwan chowdhry nominated Satoshi as the candidate for 2016 Nobel prize. But Satoshi did respond to this nomination, then this nomination was ended. Until now, Blockchain technique has been an important technology development direction around the globe. Satoshi’s identity is still a mystery.
Besides satoshi, The founder of Ethereum(V god) is also attracting our attention，V god was born in 1994, he is only 26 years old, but his personal accomplishments are hard to reach for most of the people. As two representative elites in Blockchain industries, V god is not as mysterious as Satoshi himself, but he is also unattainable.
V god started knowing Bitcoin at the age of 17 and created a huge interest in Bitcoin. Two years later, he dropped out of university of waterloo and started Blockchain research. The second year after he dropped out of college, He published white paper <<Ethereum: A next generation encrypted currency and decentralized application platform >> on his self-editing Bitcoin Magazine. From that year, Ethereum collected 31000 Bitcoins (Around 18.4 million USD) as funds. As the founder of Ethereum, V God has brought public’s attention, he became the most impressive genius teenager.
Uprising of the BITCOIN
Bitcoin and Ethereum have laid the foundation for the whole Encrypted Industry, Satoshi and V god brought world’s attention because of their technology genius identity. At the same time, besides technology genius, there were some merchants changing their life through sensitive feelings, Bitmain WUJIHAN was one of them.
Bitcoin market risen in 2013, it became an investing star in a really short period of time, “mining “vocabulary has become the new trending for Financial fields. WUJIHAN has discovered a business opportunity. He discovered quickly expand mining market, now there were almost no competitors in the market, he decided to do mining machine, he and technical experts Zhanketuan built Bitmain at the top speed.
Without doubt, Bit main’s ASIC mining machine experienced wild pursuit by mining labors and got three rounds financing, earned a lot money for a really short time, WUJIHAN himself was mentioned in Hurun millionaire list and became new generation industry leader, but ZHANKETUAN who was in charge of technology did not remember by most of the people .
At the time when Bitmain just created, currency price development was benign, there were almost no competitions fight against it, Bitmain earned a lot of money. Although two founders have sort of disagreements, based on the premise of the idea “being rich together”, everything is going well.
At the end of 2018, coin prices had fallen to the lowest, Bitmain also experienced setbacks in HK Stock IPO，ZHANKETUAN was the first person to step up to require his employees to pick a side, they formed opposite trend within the company. Finally, wujihan had to step down from all the positions, ZHANKETUAN had taken the position as CEO.
From that time, company had started “Rights Seizing Era.” In August 2018, ZHANKETUAN started internal reform bold and resolute, he was not only process adjustments between departments, but also placed his trusted subordinate into each department. Complaints were coming one after another, contradictions deteriorated again. At the same time, when 2019 came, the whole industry was picking up again, new competitors were coming one after another, multiple mining manufacturers are starting invading in Bitmain market, under the state of Flux, Bitmain family estate was gradually wear out.
Political changes at a critical and difficult moment
In 2018 Two founder of Bitmain wujihan and Zhantuanke’s first authority competition broke out, this war was ended by WUJIHAN’S recession, but the story about authority power did not end.
Without doubt, In OCT 29th on 2019, political changes started again, At the time when Bit land experienced state of Flux, WUJIHAN returned to the company once again and seized power in a really short time, changed business information. Announced dismissal of ZHANKETUAN and restricted all his power unilaterally. Actually, political changes had planned for a really long time. In 2018, although WUJIHAN resigned all the positions except director he held in the company, he actually held company’s official seal always.
When he returned to the company, WUJIHAN quickly recovered his regime, changed HR director, held employee meeting. On the political change day, company’s business information changed accordingly, original legal representative switched from ZHANTUANKE to WUJIHAN, executive officer switched from ZHANGTUANKE to WUJIHAN as well, ZHANTUANKE had been completely kicked out of the company.
When ZHANGTUANKE who was 2000 miles away from the company received this message, he headed back to the headquarter as soon as possible, however, when he arrived at the company, he realized that he could not even get in the company.
This political change had been the whole industry’s hot discussion topics. 1 week after the event, ZHANTUANKE publicly stated that he will return the company through legal means. This past June he declared that he had returned to Bitmain. For this power competition, it is hard for us to decide who is right and who is wrong, but one thing we can predicted was that this game has been far from ending.
If we compare WUJIHAN to satoshi and Vgod, WUJIHAN is more like a business man, a business man who is able to balance advantages and disadvantages and process collateral damages. This fight with ZHANGKETUAN, it looks like a fight between company’s technical side and stakeholder seemingly, but it actually is the divergence of two people’s industry directions prognosis.
Of course, whether technical aspect like Satoshi Nakamoto or business man like WUJIHAN, they are the indispensable power for Blockchain industry development.
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One of my hobbies is to choose a subject and dig into it as much as I can by reading technical articles, books, and watching videos. I just got into a new job, and part of my role is researching blockchain for the R&D department.
The blockchain world is pretty new to me, and I found the amount of information overwhelming. There's so much to know, so many different companies, ideas, terminology, history (yes, for a newcomer, the blockchain world seems like an old-world I'm telling you). Over the past three weeks, I read tons of useful info online, some of it is useful for my company, and some of it helped me understand blockchain better. I made a list of some of the articles I found helpful. I found many more articles and resources, but here are the ones I liked the most:
· Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos
· Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Resources
· Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains
· Learn Blockchains by Building One
· On the dangers of a blockchain monoculture
· How does blockchain really work? I built an app to show you.
· Resources from a16z for Understanding Crypto
· The cost of running a failed IEO
· Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day
· What happens when you attack DeFi?
· Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later
· What will happen to cryptocurrency in the 2020s
· A Beginner's Guide to Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
· DeFi explained in layman's terms.
· A definitive list of dead coins
· Bitcoin Mining's Three Body Problem
· How Imposters Scam Entrepreneurs Out of Their Crypto
· A Lone Bitcoin Whale Likely Fueled 2017 Surge, Study Finds
· MailChimp's Ban on Cryptocurrency Marketing Is Causing Collateral Damage
This is a modest guide to how you can basically put your money where your mouth is by donating to open source and Linux projects that advance the aim of better gaming on Linux: ideally some hard cash but if not, your time. In it I set out to explain each project's importance and really cut through the cruft to get to exactly how you donate.
It's a follow-up to my post ten months ago, a guide to donating or supporting open-source projects. I decided to refresh it a little earlier this year because I'd like to bring it to the forefront before the December drain on people's finances kicks and this year has been a hellscape where we could all honestly do with a little more support and kindness. So there we go. Aside from the new additions (and some updates), much of the content remains the same.
As a last point, I'm going to reiterate what /u/PBLKGodofGrunts said at the start of his own "Guide to Migrating to Linux 2020"; if you liked this post enough to give it an award, consider sending that money through to one of the projects below instead.
For a list of revisions, credits and edits, please see the end of the post.
What is it? Wine is a compatibility layer that allows users to run Windows applications in Linux environments. It forms a core part of Valve's Steamplay/Proton solution, as well as providing gamers the means to play Windows games that are no longer compatibile on modern systems.
How can I support them? Wine is assisted by the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a non-profit organisation that manages earmarked donations to its member projects (of which Wine, Godot and others form a part) and provides various fiscal and administrative services (the full list can be seen here.).
If you want donate to Wine directly, the easiest is to simply go to Wine's donation page. You can also go via the SFC. You'll need to go to the Member Projects Page, and scroll right down to the bottom. Clicking the donate will take you to Paypal where you'll be asked to donate an amount of your choice; you can also set whether it should be monthly but by default it's off.
Donating to the SFC helps all of the projects associated with them, and if you would like to do so you can donate here. Given the role they play in smoothing out the more mundane administrative tasks of running Wine as a non-profit, they likely deserve some support.
If you want to get an idea of how the money is used, you can check out some of the SFC's audited financial reports here, although it appears that they haven't been punctual on posting the supposed filings for the most recent years. Unfortunately, another good barometer of the kind of work done is the WineConf conference, which was delayed this year to Aug 2021. However, /u/jhansoxi also wrote up a personal WineConf 2019 report that gives you an idea of some of the challenges faced by the Wine team and the kind of topics that get discussed there.
Wine Staging, which generally features various cutting-edge features that haven't made it into mainline Wine due to stability concerns and other considerations, has it's own Patreon which you can support here. As this is often the preferred version for gaming requirements, it might be worth a look.
No money? You can support the Wine project by submitting reports on your experiences trying to run specific games over at WineHQ. Please be aware that this is specifically for reports using Wine alone, and requires on-going retesting and reporting. The details are on this page. You can either become an App's maintainer (thereby becoming responsible for the overall accuracy and timeliness of an App's page on AppDB), or simply post comments on the specific page detailing your tests.
You could also look at improving documentation around the use of Wine. Several of the pages on Wine's Wiki and documentation such as the Readme are out of date (for example, the Wine User's Guide was last updated on September 2018.).
What is it? ProtonDB is a database of compatibility ratings of Windows Steam games using Proton and Steamplay developed by /u/migelius, with reports crowd-sourced from the community. It aims to provide a single point of reference on whether a Windows game will run via Steamplay, often with the necessary tweaks to perform if it requires some manual configuration. The database is also made available here under the ODbl license.
How can I support them? You can support ProtonDB's Patreon project. At the time of writing, the Patreon is earning just under $150.
No money? Comprehensive reports are invaluable in helping users to get games running. To that end, here's some things to consider to improve the quality of your reports. Be aware that you have to link your Steam account to ProtonDB in order to make a report, and think twice before running random scripts posted on the Internet. That being said:
What is it? Gaming On Linux (GoL) is an ad-free news website dedicated to Linux gaming run by Liam Dawe. It eschews more general Linux news to provide a focused spotlight on Linux native games, Kickstarters, projects and initiatives while highlighting ongoing efforts with Linux-adjacent interests.
How can I support them? Gaming on Linux has a myriad of ways that you can support them financially. Instead of listing them all here, I'll just link to their Support Us page. To summarise, you can:
If you would like some idea of where your money is going, you can check out the Patreon stretch goals.. Right now they're about $200 to upgrading the server and about $400 from being able to work on it full-time (from what I understand).
No money? Gaming on Linux encourages tips for Linux gaming news, as well as contributed articles written by readers. I have no idea whether contributers are paid for their work or not. You can submit articles here, keeping in mind that you have to be registered on their site to do so.
What is it? Lutris is a game manager with user-created custom scripts that help with the installation of games with difficult configuration steps. It serves as a single front-end for games across multiple services and platforms (Steam, Origin, GOG, local installs, etc).
How can I support them? Lutris is a not-for-profit project (which is distinct from a non-profit organisation) and accepts donations via their Donations page. You can also support them via Patreon, where you can find a list of stretch goals giving a high-level view of how your money is being spent. Currently, the next milestone is to incorporate cloud saves so you can sync your play across multiple computers.
No money? The power of Lutris lies in its custom scripts that aid with difficult installations of games. If you've figured out how to run a game not listed. you could always contribute a script of your own. You can learn about writing scripts from the installers.rst file in the docs folder of the Github project for Lutris. Contributing towards maintaining a decent guide to setting up and properly running Lutris would also be useful.
What is it? Mangohud is a benchmarking tool that allows Linux users to get an overlay of system performance, tracking things such as GPU and CPU metrics, RAM usage, FPS through Vulkan and DXVK and more. If you've seen one of the videos where Windows performance gets compared to Linux, well, it's very likely had MangoHud as part of the presentation. MangoHud is developed by FlightlessMango(https://github.com/flightlessmango), who also does their own comparisons of various mainstream titles to their Linux or Proton counterparts here
How can I support them? FlightlessMango has a Patreon here, which at the time of writing is earning $2 a month. Given that /u/flightlessmango is an active participant on these boards, frequently helping people out with various tech-related questions to MangoHud, it's a little surprising.
No money? You can do worse than give their videos on YouTube a watch, or even subscribe. Giving some feedback on your own use of MangoHud and providing bug reports and reporting issues would also assist.
What is it? OpenHMD is an API that aims to provide VR experiences for a variety of existing headsets, as well as a framework for those who may wish to develop their own open-source alternatives. You can see the list of supported devices here.
How can I support them? Checking their main page indicates that they now accept Paypal and Bitcoin.
No money? I suspect VR on linux is probably the nichest of niche, so if you are an active user in this space, you probably already know far better how to support these projects than I. I would imagine that active engagement by reporting issues, writing guides and logging detailed bug reports probably goes much further than any dollar, but both is best.
What is it? Linux has a dependency problem. Unless projects are actively maintained, many of them will fall into dependency hell, where they no longer run without a significant amount of jiggery and intervention, if at all. It can also be notoriously tricky to get games working with parity across multiple different distros. Projects like AppImage, Flatpak and Snaps address this flaw by packaging in all of the dependencies in a container which can be run independently of the main system, allowing for (theoritically) long-term support and compatibility as system environments change.
You can an overview of the various options mentioned here..
How can I support them? This proved to be a tricky thing to source. In fact, it appears that, from a monetary perspective, there is no clear way to directly donate to any these projects.
Snaps are a project by Canonical, so you could likely donate to Canonical when you're prompted to donate after downloading Ubuntu. Unfortunately, there's no way to indicate that that is specifically what you want to support. If you're an Ubuntu user, this is likely the most obvious choice.
Simon Peter is the primary developer of AppImages, who you can find here on Twitter. Some notable projects that utilise AppImage include the PS3 emulator RPCS3 and Krita. Again, there appears to be no direct way to support him financially, but you could always get in touch via his contact details on Github to find out what would be appropriate.
As for Flatpaks, I am unsure how you would go about donating. You can find more details about the community here.
No money? I would encourage using the packaging app of your choice and providing feedback on your experience in the relevant area. For AppImages, that's usually directly to the developers responsible for providing the AppImage. For Flatpaks and Snaps, you can get in touch with the providers of them via the store pages on Flathub or the Snapstore. Another way is to promote these methods to game developers as a potential avenue for releasing on Linux in a way that forgoes many of the pitfalls that relate to supporting multiple distros or the issue of long-term support.
These engines and tools provide game development tools that work across Windows, Mac and Linux. If you've ever thought of making yourself a game, I would suggest heading over to /r/gamedev for more detailed and informed advice, but at a glance these are some of the open-source projects that you may want to support.
Below are a couple of open-source games and gaming projects that either have been stalwart features of the Linux community for many years or are implementations that allow you to run fan-favourites from ye olde days in modern Linux environments. (Thanks to /u/infinite_move for the first three suggestions from the previous guide!). There are really a vast number of these, so please keep in mind that this is not an exhaustive list. You can find a list of various open-source Linux games here on Wikipedia. You can also find a fairly comprehensive list of game engine re-implementations here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engine_recreations.
I profess this is an area I'm not as familiar with, especially when it comes to game engine re-implmentations such as the recently announced new version of Julias for Caesar III and DevilutionX for Diablo, so if you have recommendations, please let me know!
Battle for Wesnoth: A grid-based, turn-based fantasy strategy game, offering both single-player and multiplayer options. It's been going for 15 years, and recently released on Steam (Still for free!). You can donate to the project here:
0.AD: A 3D real-time strategy game featuring ancient civilisations. 0.AD is part of the Software in the Public Interest, a non-profit organisation sponsoring many open-source projects, such as LibreOffice, FFMpeg, Arch Linux and more. You can donate to 0.AD via various methods here.
SuperTuxKart: "SuperTuxKart is a 3D open-source arcade racer with a variety characters, tracks, and modes to play." I haven't played it, but many people have mentioned it as a great kart racer, in the vein of your Super Marios. You can donate to the project here.
Mindustry: Again, speaking from no experience, it appears to be a well-regarded Factorio-alike. You can find the game here where you can pay-what-you-want, or on Steam. for a small amount.
Endless Sky: I'm almost certain Endless Sky is older than 2015; I'm pretty sure I played a version of it in the mid-2000s? Unless I'm confusing it with another game. Anyway, it's a top-down Elite-alike; trade and fight your way through the stars. As for donation, there doesn't actually appear to be any way to donate to the project; but it is available on Steam so maybe ask there?
These are a couple of my personal suggestions for support that could help grow the Linux community further, make transitioning to Linux easier or are simply cool projects that making gaming more widely available to everyone.
Your distro: Pay for the distro that serves as your main operating system. We know that one of the benefits of Linux is that it's free (as in free beer), and free (as in free speech) and is the sum of the community's effort. But money can help improve infrastructure, bolster resources and provide some flexibility in tackling problems. Each distro's particular donation method will differ, so review the options and decide what makes sense for you.
Open Broadcaster Software: Part of growing Linux is getting Linux in people's faces, and streaming is one of the most public ways you can demonstrate gaming on Linux working. Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) makes streaming to Twitch and other services easier, and comes with a host of options and plug-ins. You can find the ways to donate here. I really appreciate the transparency of expenses through the Open Collective, so you can clearly see where money donated there is being spent.
ScummVM: ScummVM replaces the game engines used by various games, primarily point-and-click adventures, allowing users to run them on modern hardware and operating systems, including OS that they weren't designed for (usually Linux). ScummVM has ensured the survival and resurrection of some hard-to-find, hard-to-run games, such as the critically acclaimed Blade Runner. You can donate directly at their site, or follow their GOG.com affialite link to buy ScummVM-supported games.
The Internet Archive: The Internet Archive is an online library that provides free access to various media alongside the Wayback Machine, a project that aims to archive the entire web. Notably, the past several years has seen several concerted gaming efforts, such as the MS-Dos archive, The Internet Arcade and the Console Living Room, all of which allow you to play these games in the browser. Whatever your distro, they should work just fine. The Internet Archive has also become the target of the publishing industry, who have sued them due to their removal of lending restrictions on books in their Open Library project, which was made available during the height of the Covid pandemic. This lawsuit has serious potential ramifications not only for the future of the Internet Archive, but digital lending in general. You can donate to the Archive here.
Crossover: CrossOver is Codeweaver's Wine implementation. It's Wine, but with a couple of tweaks of their own and a more user-friendly interface. Purchasing a year's license also comes with email support. While not perfect (and in some cases less flexible than Wine+Proton+DXVK+Etc), it's an easier method of getting that friend or family member to switch over and have a contact for assistance. I've not used Crossover at all, but they are active contributors to the Wine project and employ several of the Wine developers for the purpose of developing and improving Wine. You could also mention that the Codeweaver's have recently launched an additional service offering whereby they will provide development consulting to aspiring devs looking to port or package their apps in Wine for greater distribution. You can read more about it here
That's it for now. If you feel there's a project/detail/piece of information that needs to be added/corrected, let's hear it in the comments! I'll edit the post accordingly. And if you have any suggestions, let me know!
EDIT: Edited to address some minor typos and add a link for more detail to the lawsuit against the Internet Archive.
EDIT 2: Edited to incorporate some of the suggestions from the comments (heads up to /u/Dadrophenia for the Wine Staging mention, as well as /u/midget_3111 for OpenHMD). Adjusted the Open-source gaming to include a link to engine re-implementations - the list is too vast to include here in full). Thanks to /u/Monoverde888, /u/JkStudios and /u/Songandsilence3 for the other game suggestions. Also cut out Godot from the Wine section, as it felt unnecessary given it's inclusion in the Game Dev Tools section.
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