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From the press release: Tatiana Moroz, a New Jersey-based, singer-songwriter and entrepreneur is releasing her “Tatiana Coin”, the first-ever artist crypto currency aka “Artist Coin”. “Tatiana Coin” will use Counterparty to empower fans and music lovers alike to...

We’re delighted to announce that Niki Wiles (Bitcointalk user CryptoFinanceUK) will be heading-up our Community Relations function at Counterparty. As an open source and community driven project, we believe that the success of our platform is directly linked to our...

Last week, Robby visited the Silicon Valley, and he and Matt went to conferences, gave talks, and met investors and entrepreneurs, all with the purpose of raising awareness of and doing business development for Counterparty. Robby and Matt had opportunities to speak...

Counterparty Co-Founders and core developers xnova and PhantomPhreak will be in Silicon Valley during the first week of May. The purpose of the trip is to spread awareness of the project through local events and to grow the Counterparty core development team....

The Counterparty team is proud to announce the completion of our first independent code audit. Focusing on the security of counterpartyd and the Counterparty protocol, this audit was completed by professional cryptographer Sergio Demian Lerner between February 24 and...

There is more to maintaining the Bitcoin network than mining – miners validate transactions, but those transactions need to be relayed across the network. The relaying of transactions is done by full nodes; without full nodes, there is no Bitcoin. The problem is that...

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...

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...

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...

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,...