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For better or worse, we’re still obsessed with Bitcoin’s price

Apr05
by on April 5, 2019 at 1:22 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Cryptocurrencies are renowned – and often criticized – for their volatility. It’s what makes them both risky and attractive for skeptics and investors. Over the past decade, the mainstream press has largely ignored Bitcoin, generally focusing its coverage on the digital currency‘s association with crime and its sudden price movements. It’s therefore not surprising that Bitcoin‘s recent value rise resulted in countless headlines, with many industry commentators taking the opportunity to chime in. To recap, Bitcoin hit the $4,000 mark for the first time since January on March 27 and continued to rise until it surpassed $5,000 on April 3. At the…

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I took a virtual walk in the blockchain so you don’t have to

Apr05
by on April 5, 2019 at 1:17 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


The blockchain is a strange place. Everything including orange juice, milk, almonds, and even fridges have been “put on the blockchain.” But you could never put yourself on the blockchain and go for a walk, until now. Thanks to Cryptovoxels, you can now take a walk on the Ethereum blockchain. According to its website, Cryptovoxels is a user-owned virtual world running on the Ethereum blockchain. Think of it as Minecraft with more cryptocurrency and less color. In fact, the project’s lead developer Ben Nolan told Hard Fork that’s where he got his inspiration. “I was inspired by Minecraft and loved…

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Video: Welcome to the wild world of… wood sander racing?

Apr05
by on April 5, 2019 at 12:11 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


This video is part of our series on Lille’s Maker Faire. To stay up-to-date on releases (and to find out more), check out our master post here. Humanity has raced for millennia. Humans racing humans. Humans racing horses. Humans racing dogs. Humans racing pigeons. Just race on race on race, forever – endlessly testing each other’s speed. But, there’s a certain, magical type of racing previously unexplored. So, welcome one and all to… uh, wood sander racing? It works like this. There’s a wooden track with space for two sanders. These are connected to an extension cord, which is in turn…

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Bitcoin’s creator totally turns 44 today – happy birthday, Satoshi Nakamoto

Apr05
by on April 5, 2019 at 11:11 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Yo, Satoshi Nakamoto. Wherever (and whoever) you are, if you read this (for whatever reason): happy birthday. You deserve a celebration. While we don’t really know much about Nakamoto, Bitcoin‘s pseudonymous creator, they were “thoughtful” enough to leave behind some fun “facts” for us to obsess over, like their supposed “birthday.” Upon creation of their P2P Foundation online profile, Nakamoto‘s date of birth was listed as April 5, 1975. It also claimed he was a man living in Japan, in which case — お誕生日おめでとうビットコイン先生! Nakamoto, master of historic contextual references? On this day in 1933, US president Franklin D. Roosevelt took advantage of…

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