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Adult site CamSoda will now let you pay for porn with Bitcoin

Apr09
by on April 9, 2019 at 3:42 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Adult entertainment company CamSoda has integrated cryptocurrency payments, enabling users to purchase tokens on the platform using seven different coins, including Bitcoin and Ethereum. In addition to BTC and ETH, CamSoda users can also spend their Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, and Tron alongside privacy-oriented coins Monero and Zcash. “Now that we are seeing more adoption of the technology, we decided to give our users what they’ve been asking us for some time,” Daryn Parker, vice president of CamSoda told Hard Fork. Cryptocurrencies will be accepted for several of the platform’s functionalities, including tips, live shows, and private chats. This, however, is not the first time that CamSoda…

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Adult site CamSoda will now let you pay for porn with Bitcoin

Apr09
by on April 9, 2019 at 3:42 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Adult entertainment company CamSoda has integrated cryptocurrency payments, enabling users to purchase tokens on the platform using seven different coins, including Bitcoin and Ethereum. In addition to BTC and ETH, CamSoda users can also spend their Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, and Tron alongside privacy-oriented coins Monero and Zcash. “Now that we are seeing more adoption of the technology, we decided to give our users what they’ve been asking us for some time,” Daryn Parker, vice president of CamSoda told Hard Fork. Cryptocurrencies will be accepted for several of the platform’s functionalities, including tips, live shows, and private chats. This, however, is not the first time that CamSoda…

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TNW2019 Daily: We have an astronaut!

Apr09
by on April 9, 2019 at 3:08 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Events, Insider, TNW2019


There are only 30 days left until TNW Conference, our tech festival in Amsterdam. In exactly one month, 17,500 attendees will spend two days watching keynotes from the biggest names in tech. Yesterday, we surpassed 300 speakers, and we’ve confirmed a really big name: André Kuipers! I’m doing something different by dedicating today’s entire newsletter to his awesomeness, because I’m kind of in awe. HE’S AN ASTRONAUT André Kuipers is the first Dutch astronaut to have two space missions to his name. He lived and worked on the International Space Station, serving a number of roles, including doctor, scientist, engineer, teacher,…

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40 years of console wars, spellbindingly charted for your viewing pleasure

Apr09
by on April 9, 2019 at 2:05 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


We enjoyed creating our last bar chart race about phone sales so much, we couldn’t resist doing another. So, this time round we’ve looked at something close to all our hearts: the console wars. Yep, in the animated graph below, you’ll find a visualization of the best-selling games consoles from 1977 all the way through to 2017. That’s a full 40 years of data for you! Aren’t you lucky? Feast your eyes on this:   Wow! Where’s all this console wars data from? We’re glad you asked. Mainly, it comes from official company statements. You know, things like annual and quarterly…

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Stack Overflow survey shows DevOps engineers are really, really content

Apr09
by on April 9, 2019 at 1:20 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev


Stack Overflow today released the results of its 2019 Developer Survey. The report highlights trends across a sample of 90,000 developers, located around the world, and focuses on a variety of subjects, including education, job satisfaction, and preferred technological stack. Some findings aren’t especially surprising. The survey shows that Python remains a popular – if not beloved – programming language. It also highlighted meaningful shifts in the ages when people learn to code. We’ll talk more about both later. There were some surprises, though. Stack Overflow asked developers about how satisfied they were with their job. It found that those…

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