The Bitcoin Brief - 29 Dec 2011

Some quick snippets from the world of Bitcoin:

• Ogrr.com, Bitcoin's highly anticipated virtual goods marketplace, has exited from its invite-only phase. Anyone is now free to join. There will also be some new feature announcements coming shortly.
• BitPing is now alive and running, a service which provides merchants (or anyone) with payment notifications. BitPing replaces the old Bitcoin Notify service that was sold on November 13th.
• There is ongoing discussion that the code scheduled to be implemented in Bitcoin 0.6 may require more testing than previously anticipated. Gavin also briefly mentioned eventually allowing for Bitcoin to support a quantum-computing-resistant signature algorithm; nice to know it's in the back of their minds.
• Open Transactions is now running a server for alpha testing. Between Open Transactions, Bitcoin, and Ripple, one cannot even begin to fathom the potential applications. If you have any interest at all in the potential of digital currencies and open-source, anonymous banking, I highly recommend keeping an eye on these developments. 

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