HTC partners with Bitcoin.com to support cryptocurrency smartphone Exodus 1 HTC and Bitcoin.com have teamed up to help HTC’s flagship Exodus 1 smartphone drive the growth of cryptocurrency trading and usage. Read More…
More infoKraken bug apparently let users buy Bitcoin for $8,000 and instantly sell it for $12,000 Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken – one of the world’s oldest – has disclosed a bug that apparently allowed certain customers to purchase Bitcoin at $8,000 and sell it for $12,000. Taking to Twitter, the exchange said “a test of an unreleased…
More infoThis CoinMarketCap parody site tracks Bitcoin’s market cap, plus 99 shitcoins The cryptocurrency market is a confusing place at the best of times. All that complicated technology and all those names of coins that aren’t Bitcoin. There’s a lot to take in, but worry no more. Meet CoinMarketCrap. A knock-off of, you guessed it, popular…
More infoSatoshi Nakaboto: ‘Tim Draper now says his $250,000 Bitcoin price forecast is conservative’ Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Kierkegaard used to say: To infinity,…
More infoThief jeopardizes state secrets by using nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency People will do anything to get their hands on that sweet cryptocurrency including, perhaps one of the most audacious yet, using secret areas in a nuclear power plant to hide and power mining machines. According to a court case, a person with high…
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Please get your digital affairs in order I really wish I hadn’t had cause to write this piece, but it recently came to my attention, in an especially unfortunate way, that death in the modern era can have a complex and difficult technical aftermath. You should make a will, of course. Of course you s……
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Ransomware Attackers and Insurance Companies Are Forming a Human Centipede of Profits Ransomware incidents—cyberattacks in which bad actors demand payment in exchange for encrypted files—are a frighteningly common fixture of our modern era. But more troubling is that the number of attacks may be hiking due, in part, to the insurance companies … Read More…
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The Answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything, Finally Cracked We all know that 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything, thanks to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Now, we also know that it’s the sum of three cubes. Read more… Read More…
More infoSatoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin should be worth $100,000 right now, according to John McAfee’ Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Nightingale used to say: Peel off…
More infoEarn money on your unused cryptocurrency with Binance? It’s probably more hassle than it’s worth Digital asset exchange Binance is launching a cryptocurrency lending platform later this month. In a blog post published earlier today, the exchange announced what it’s calling “Binance Lending.” A platform which Binance CEO, Chanpeng Zhao, touted would let u… Read…
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