News of Fallout 4 reminded many fans of the series (like me) of that one Fallout series game they never finished. For me, that was Fallout: New Vegas. Yes, I'm still outside the city, but with the help of I should be on my way shortly.For some developers out there, the announcement also reminded them of the the New Vegas mods they've left unfinished. Yes, nearly 5 years after the game came out there are still teams slaving away on big projects. Here's two to keep an eye on, and one you can play right now.
When you are playing the online role-playing game 'World of Warcraft,' your character gains experience points as you kill monsters, make discoveries and complete quests within the game. After a certain number of experience points, your character will progress to the next level. Your character's percentage of progress to this next level is normally displayed on a bar running across the screen.
Bitcoins do not really look like this.Photo credit:,Diving into the raw Bitcoin protocolThe remainder of this article discusses, step by step, how I used the raw Bitcoin protocol.First I generated a Bitcoin address and keys. Next I made a transaction to move a small amount of bitcoins to this address. Signing this transaction took me a lot of time and difficulty. Finally, I fed this transaction into the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network and waited for it to get mined.The remainder of this article describes these steps in detail.It turns out that actually using the Bitcoin protocol is harder than I expected. As you will see, the protocol is a bit of a jumble: it uses big-endian numbers, little-endian numbers, fixed-length numbers, variable-length numbers, custom encodings, and a variety of cryptographic algorithms, seemingly arbitrarily. As a result, there's a lot of annoying manipulation to get data into the right format.The second complication with using the protocol directly is that being cryptographic, it is very unforgiving.
The best android boxes to buy in 2018! In this video i go through my top 5 picks of the best devices that you can buy for every budget.
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