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ShapeShift.io Releases Skeleton Exchange Tool for In-site Cryptocurrency Exchanges

Websites owners can now offer buy/sell option to users straight from their site

SWITZERLAND (09/30/2015)  ShapeShift.io has released the ShapeShift Skeleton tool, enabling any website to allow instant purchase or sale of digital assets and cryptocurrencies. The tool allows for exchanges to be made by a site’s users without them leaving the site.
Skeleton’s code is free and open-source and offers a template that is customizable, giving integrators the ability to brand the tool with their own assets and colors.
CoinCap.io, a market data website, used Skeleton to let users buy leading cryptocurrencies directly from its list of coins on the homepage. See this example here.
All information needed to utilize Skeleton can be found on the GitHub link: https://github.com/Shapeshift-Public/ShapeShift-SkeletonShapeShift adds Skeleton to a suite of innovative tools that includes the Shifty Button, a merchant processing widget, and the Lens Plugin, a web extension enabling leading cryptocurrencies to be paid to any Bitcoin address on a webpage.
For more information on how the ShapeShift Skeleton tool works, watch the short demo video here.
About ShapeShift.io
ShapeShift is how digital currency exchange should work. From start to finish users can convert digital currencies in seconds, with no account required. No emails or passwords. No lengthy sign­up process. No accounts. No friction. ShapeShift's goal is to be the fastest, safest, and most convenient way to trade digital assets. See more at: https://shapeshift.io/new.html

The Responsibility of Decentralization 

Posted by Sambiohazard

Yesterday I watched a live episode of “Chris Before Coffee” on Youtube. It turned out to be a class on social and political aspect of Bitcoin. This Hangout was broadcast from a “bitcoin squat” in London. Among other developers and bitcoin enthusiasts, there was Amir Taaki. He is the developer behind Dark Wallet. He is an Anarchist and has pretty different, or should I say, a more true perception of what bitcoin is. He shared lots of his thoughts and I recommend everyone to watch this podcast. In my opinion, it is the answer to the most important question of all “What is Bitcoin?” I asked two questions during the podcast. Amir’s answers helped me improve my understanding of how decentralization works and why this experiment in decentralization called Blockchain will fail or succeed. 

My first question was about “Mining Centralization”. Pretty much anyone who cares about Bitcoin is worried about 3-4 major pools accounting for majority of mining power. I am worried that as merger & acquisition in the industry grows, we might see a lot of hashrate in the hand of people with lots of fiat money. Although, Amir’s answer showed me how a minority of miners can be manipulated/coerced for attacking the network. 

The biggest takeaway for me from his answer was that Bitcoin protocol or Blockchain is only a set of rules that shows you the way, but it is you, a participant in the network, who have to apply these rules to achieve decentralization. The decentralization gives you the power to own yourself but it also comes with responsibilities which you have to take. The responsibility to secure your own money/data, responsibility to keep the network alive. So, to keep decentralization and your freedom alive, you have to leave the comfort and ease provided by centralized power structures along with the loss of liberty and own up to the responsibility that comes with power of decentralization. 

My second question was about “Decentralized Decision Making”. The idea in my head was voting on features through our wallet softwares. But Amir’s answer opened my eyes. It drew me out of my comfortable assumption that if enough people want a feature then developer has to implement it or developers can decide on which features people should vote on. That is democracy, a broken system as all of us know. He said that development is a process and an iterative one. If you want to influence the development then you have to get involved in the discussion via various channels. Decentralized decision making can work only if you are ready to invest time and resources into the process. 

Again, you have to take responsibility and get involved in the good, the bad and the ugly of a development decision. You cannot sit in comfort of your twitter feed and just click on a button to take decision or influence others to tag along with you. You have to reason with the community, listen to their feedback, and reason again until it is proven that what you are proposing will take everyone forward. You have to fill your place in the decentralized whole. 

So, if you want to claim that you have a right to freedom that comes with decentralization, then you also have to fulfill the responsibility that keeps that freedom alive. As Uncle Ben said

“With great power, comes great responsibility.”

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We will be removing the following wallets on November 1st, 2015. Once removed, we will not be able to retrieve your funds. Please remove all coins ASAP. Note, that some of these coins have broken blockchains where we will not be able to send coins.

No exceptions will be made once the wallets are removed.

Symbol	Coin Name
16BIT	16bitcoin
BOOM	BoomCoin
BTM	Bitmark
BUCKS	GorillaBucks
CAM	CamorraCoin
CHASH	CleverHash
CXC	CheckOutCoin
CYP	Cypher
DCC	DarkCrave
DOX	DoxCoin
EKN	Elektron
EPY	Empyrean
EQM	Equalibrium
EVENT	EventToken
GIZ	GizmoCoin
GPH	GraphCoin
GRID	GridPay
GSX	GlowShares
HAL	Halcyon
HAP	Hashpay
HUGE	BigCoin
LUX	BitLux
MNE	Munne
NANAS	BananaBits
PRE	Premium
QTZ	Quartz
RZR	Razor
SFR	SaffronCoin
SIGU	Singular
SMAC	SMAC
STV	SativaCoin
SYNC	SyncCoin
WATER	CleanWaterCoin
XMS	MegaStake
ZRC	ZiftrCoin

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