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mafintosh / bitcoin-for-laypeople.md
Last active April 1, 2020 12:46
Blog post about how Bitcoin works in a way non computer people can understand it

Bitcoin for laypeople

(Chinese version available here, courtesy of @jiangplus

(This is an English translation of my Danish blog post, Bitcoin for voksne)

Bitcoin is a digital currency that has no central authority. It's a currency where you do not have to rely on anyone to know it's worth it. As a concept, it's similar to gold. Gold has a value in itself, as opposed to, say a $100 note that only has value if the U.S. government says it has value. Similarly, the idea of ​​Bitcoins is that they have value by themselves.

Let's try to understand how Bitcoin works.

@mbostock
mbostock / .block
Last active October 23, 2024 17:48
Closest Point on Path
license: gpl-3.0
@andyj
andyj / html_for_international_calling coes.htm
Created October 22, 2013 21:57
HTML <select> international calling codes for each country
<!-- country codes (ISO 3166) and Dial codes. -->
<select name="countryCode" id="">
<option data-countryCode="GB" value="44" Selected>UK (+44)</option>
<option data-countryCode="US" value="1">USA (+1)</option>
<optgroup label="Other countries">
<option data-countryCode="DZ" value="213">Algeria (+213)</option>
<option data-countryCode="AD" value="376">Andorra (+376)</option>
<option data-countryCode="AO" value="244">Angola (+244)</option>
<option data-countryCode="AI" value="1264">Anguilla (+1264)</option>
<option data-countryCode="AG" value="1268">Antigua &amp; Barbuda (+1268)</option>
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vrushank-snippets / PHP : Array To CSV - Download CSV File
Created December 13, 2012 06:21
PHP : Array To CSV - Download CSV File
$fileName = 'Billing-Summary.csv';
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header("Content-type: text/csv");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename={$fileName}");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Pragma: public");
$fh = @fopen( 'php://output', 'w' );