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The only 4/20 weed gear guide you’ll ever need

Apr09
by on April 9, 2019 at 11:38 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


The days when weed was an underground pastime are over. The game’s changed. Hell, there are whole US states where weed is legal. The same process has happened with 4/20 (AKA that weird weed day). It used to be a niche concern, but now? Countries across the world hold massive smoking rallies and innumerable people light-up to celebrate the occasion. Here at TNW, we wanted to do something to help you celebrate 4/20 properly. Despite the weed industry expanding substantially over the last decade, there’s still a lot of shit products out there. So, we decided to round-up some of…

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Mt. Gox might need 2 more years to repay millions worth of lost Bitcoin

Apr09
by on April 9, 2019 at 11:35 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


The leader of the group representing victims of the defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox is stepping down from his post. The founder and coordinator of Mt. Gox Legal, Andy Pag, is resigning in the midst of a “legal quagmire that could take years to resolve,” he told CoinDesk in an interview. Mt. Gox Legal was set up 18 months ago to support and represent creditors of the cryptocurrency exchange as they lobby for the return of their lost funds. In his full statement, Pag said that he believes ongoing legal issues could slow down the civil rehabilitation proceedings. Distribution of…

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Payment options in apps can be designed better

Apr09
by on April 9, 2019 at 11:34 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, syndication


Let’s start with a simple thought What was the last meal that you had? How did you decide to eat a certain dish as opposed to anything else? If you are someone like me, you would have gone through the pain of endlessly scrolling restaurants and dishes on an app before you found the one for the day. Or if you were lucky, you would have had your meal cooked by someone you love. Every day we make thousands of choices subconsciously. Some of them are active choices but most of them are implicit defaults. Influence of choices:Every choice that we…

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22-year-old gets 2 years in jail for illegally selling hundreds of thousands in Bitcoin

Apr09
by on April 9, 2019 at 10:04 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


A 22-year-old man in the US has been sentenced to two years in prison for selling hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin through an unlicensed money transmitting business. Jacob Burrell Campos, who had been in custody without bail since he was arrested in August last year, was also forced to forfeit $823,357 in illicit profits. He plead guilty on October 29, admitting he had operated a Bitcoin exchange without previously registering the business with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen) of the US Department of Treasury. He also admitted he had not implemented the necessary anti-money laundering procedures (AML). “Today’s…

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Bitcoin hits massive milestone with its 400,000,000th transaction

Apr09
by on April 9, 2019 at 9:19 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Bitcoin has reached a milestone! The blockchain powering the world’s most popular cryptocurrency officially processed its 400,000,000th transaction overnight. That’s right. Check the records – at pixel time, there have been at least 400,251,742 transactions sent via Bitcoin‘s independent, censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer electronic cash system. Right now, Bitcoin is averaging around 350,000 transactions per day. It’s blockchain is handling roughly 14,904 transactions every hour (just over four per second), with no down-time, and no holidays. Bitcoin is fitting more transactions into blocks than ever before Earlier in April, Bitcoin fans rejoiced as the cryptocurrency market finally saw positive movement, after its price broke $5,000…

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