THELOGICALINDIAN - After missing his barrage window in January Megaupload architect Kim Dotcom has again hinted about the accessible barrage of Megaupload 20 and its Bitcoin wallet Bitcache On Monday the Internet bad boy assuredly appear back the clandestine beta of his muchhyped arrangement will be launched
Also read: Kim Dotcom Previews Bitcache, Introduces Megaupload 2’s Bitcontent
New Launch Plan for Bitcache and Megaupload 2.0
Kim Dotcom, best accepted for the blemish success of his Megaupload billow accumulator belvedere that was shut bottomward by the U.S. government, has continued been able a almsman to the accepted service. In 2015, the larger-than-life administrator announced that he would be application bitcoin as the allurement band central his abutting bearing of Megaupload. The cryptocurrency would eventually be acclimated in Megaupload’s wallet, Bitcache.
Dotcom had originally promised to absolution Megaupload 2.0 and Bitcache by January 20 this year. However, back the barrage date formed around, it was adjourned until added notice. After a continued delay, he assuredly tweeted on Monday:
Also Announcing Twitter Contest with Bitcache Prize
In accession to his clandestine beta barrage notification, Dotcom appear a accompanying challenge for anyone to enter. “Want a adventitious to win aboriginal admission and a preloaded Bitcache wallet?” Dotcom asked. Anyone retweeting his advertisement is acceptable to win. He adumbrated that users who retweet will be entered into a cartoon for aboriginal admission to Megaupload 2.0 and be accustomed a yet-unnamed bulk of bitcoin in a Bitcache wallet.
To get about Bitcoin’s transaction limit problems, Bitcache was created to action bitcoin micropayments off-chain, “similar to the lightning network,” Dotcom claims. The new wallet allows users to accelerate baby amounts of bitcoin to anniversary added after accepting to anguish about arrangement fees.
April Bitcache Demonstration
In April, Dotcom appear a video demonstrating Bitcache, which he declared as a “first walkthrough of how the appearance assignment and how the armpit looks.”
The new interface appearance a simple e-commerce apparatus which he calls Bitcontent. Its purpose is to acquiesce users of Megaupload 2.0 to acquire money from any blazon of book or agenda artefact that they would like to sell. They can do so by uploading it into a “Bitcache container” and ambience a price, in bits, to acquiesce others to download or beck the file.
Meanwhile, Megaupload 2.0 will still action private, encrypted billow accumulator for all users.
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