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Bitfinex is skewing Bitcoin’s price so much, it’s now being ignored by CoinMarketCap

May06
by on May 6, 2019 at 2:55 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Cryptocurrency market information website CoinMarketCap is no longer including Bitfinex’s Bitcoin price in its weighted average due to skewed data. Bitcoin‘s weighted average price is $5,696.94 (at the time of writing). However, on Bitfinex, it’s listed at $6,009.98. To save you the math, that’s a difference of $313.04, or put otherwise, a 5.5-percent premium over the market average. The little asterix next to Bitcoin‘s Bitfinex price – spotted by Chepicap – denotes that it’s no longer being included in CMC’s calculation of the Bitcoin‘s average price, though. Being so much higher, it was skewing the average. Other exchanges generally report…

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Even I, a fool, could photoshop the coffee cup out of the latest GoT episode

May06
by on May 6, 2019 at 2:49 pm
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Don’t worry, there are no spoilers about the latest episode below. But, if you’re slightly behind the release schedule, there are some light reveals. Game of Thrones is a phenomenon. It’s a record-breaking, budget-busting entertainment behemoth that might well be the most popular TV show of all time. Yet despite all the money and effort that goes into the series, the creators couldn’t stop a coffee cup from entering Westeros (that’s the nerd land where all the nerd shit happens btw). Yep, in the fourth episode of the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones (titled, ‘The Last of the Starks’)…

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Activists are battling propaganda and voter apathy ahead of 2019’s EU elections

May06
by on May 6, 2019 at 1:31 pm
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For better or for worse, tech will play a pivotal role in this year’s European elections, which promise to be a heated and fraught affair, and have the potential for the same kind of foreign influence that marred the 2016 US Presidential Election. That’s not usually the case. European elections are frequently overlooked, as evidenced by their historically low voter turnout. Looking at 2014’s EU elections, for example, shows just 35 percent of eligible Brits casting a ballot for their MEPs. In Slovakia, the turnout rate was even more dismal, with just 13.5 percent voting. Things will be different this…

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Net a lifetime of VPN Unlimited protection for only $29

May06
by on May 6, 2019 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers


Virtual private networks, or VPNs, are a rock-solid means of protecting your virtual privacy and sensitive information. So, grab a great deal on a reliable VPN provider for life with a subscription to VPN Unlimited. Lifetime plans were on sale for only $59.99; but, for the next three weeks, you can sign up for just $29.99, a massive savings on its $499.99 retail price.

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Bitcoin has nearly 100,000 nodes, but over 50% run vulnerable code

May06
by on May 6, 2019 at 12:01 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


On May 5, the Bitcoin network briefly boasted over 100,000 ‘full nodes,’ but most are still running out-of-date versions of the software. PSA: a lot of people believe there are about 10,000 Bitcoin nodes. This is incorrect, this number is the amount of *listening* nodes. The total number of Bitcoin full nodes now exceeds 100,000. pic.twitter.com/VYziaKCYzg — Francis Pouliot 🐂 (@francispouliot_) May 5, 2019 Indeed, it is often reported that Bitcoin has somewhere around 9,000 to 10,000 full nodes validating its blockchain (Hard Fork has done this, too!). According to prominent Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dashjr, that number is closer…

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