Bitcoin Core contributor Jeremy Rubin has revealed his work on a new smart-contract language for Bitcoin, which he hopes will increase the “financial self-sovereignty” of users. Rubin demoed the new language, Sapio, on Saturday at a RecklessVR meetup presentation in virtual reality, with many audience members joining the talk in VR headsets. He plans to release the programming language as a part of his new research organization, Judica. Stateful smart contracts allow users to lock up money so funds can’t be spent until certain conditions are met or a series of interactive steps have been taken. These contracts are most commonly […]
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In wake of the George Floyd protests, a developer has published a blog post detailing how to rename the “oppressive” coding vocabulary, which includes such terms as “master,” “slave,” “blacklist” and “whitelist.” Scott Hanselman, a programmer who works at Microsoft, has penned a blog post about how to rename the “master” branch in code repositories to something less offensive. Offensive to whom remains unclear but, in the post, Hanselman stated that there are “lots of more accurate options depending on context.” “It costs me nothing to change my vocabulary, especially if it is one less little speed bump to getting a […]