by admin | Apr 9, 2014 | News
Over the past number of months, Counterparty has emerged from a simple idea into fully functional next generation platform for creating financial instruments on top of the most secure blockchain in the world: Bitcoin. Yesterday we unveiled our new website, as well as...
by admin | Mar 27, 2014 | News
Counterparty uses the Bitcoin blockchain to deliver our transactions, and we have a responsibility and a desire to be conscientious citizens of the Bitcoin community. Counterparty, as a project, was closely modelled after Bitcoin itself. Counterparty had no ‘IPO’, and...
by admin | Mar 26, 2014 | News
An important new feature has just been added to Counterparty. Transactions may be embedded in the blockchain as fake Bitcoin addresses—the so-called Pay-to-PubKeyHash method. (This is similar to the Class A encoding that Mastercoin uses.) With this addition, even if...
by admin | Mar 24, 2014 | News
We are happy to announce Bitcointalk that user JahPowerBit is now able to work on Counterparty full-time. Jah’s two major contributions to date have been the web-based desktop GUI, “BoottleXCP“, and the “light” replacement client for Bitcoind,...
by admin | Mar 23, 2014 | News
One of the most striking things about Counterparty is that its native cryptocurrency, XCP, was created and distributed by destroying bitcoins in a process known as “proof-of-burn”. All XCP that will ever exist were given out proportionally to those who recognized...
by admin | Mar 19, 2014 | News
Over a week ago, internal testing began on Counterwallet and today we are happy to announce that Counterwallet is available for public testing. Get testnet BTC using the BTC testnet faucet. To obtain testnet XCP, either burn testnet BTC using Counterwallet or post a...
