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Microsoft’s Bing blocked 5,000,000 cryptocurrency ads in 2018

Mar25
by on March 25, 2019 at 4:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Microsoft’s Bing has boasted it successfully blocked more than 5 million cryptocurrency-related ads, after it imposed a strict marketing ban last year. In a blog, Bing detailed its problem with spam from sketchy advertisers. It described how they inundate the service with “harmful and misleading ads, persuasive content, and innocent looking URLs that lead to phishing, malware attacks, and other types of fraud.” “We suspended nearly 200,000 accounts from the Bing Ads platform, twice the number in 2017. 900 million bad ads and 300,000 bad sites were also removed from our system,” wrote Bing. “To put it in perspective, if one person took a single second to…

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US regulator blacklists Colorado trader for orchestrating $1.5M Bitcoin scam

Mar25
by on March 25, 2019 at 3:55 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


A man in the US has been barred from trading following his alleged involvement in a Bitcoin scam that resulted in losses of approximately $1.5 million in investors’ funds. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FIRA) – a non-governmental organization that regulates member brokerage firms and exchange markets – looked into claims that Daniel Todd Levine, of Englewood (Colorado), offered investors a chance to buy discounted Bitcoin in return for significant returns on their investment. According to CNBC, the plan was that Levine’s brother would buy Bitcoin from an overseas private seller at a discounted rate of 60 percent to 90 percent. Levine was expecting to…

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Inside GitHub’s fight to protect devs from EU’s disastrous Copyright Reform

Mar25
by on March 25, 2019 at 3:25 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev


On Tuesday, March 26, the final plenary vote on the incredibly controversial Copyright Reform will take place in the European Parliament. It’ll be the decisive vote on whether it’ll become EU law and it’s fair to say the stakes are high. One of the most disputed parts of the current version (there are quite a few) is Article 13, which makes platforms responsible for users’ possible copyright infringements and basically requires them to build impossible ‘upload filters.’ The law could filter out vast amounts of harmless content from being uploaded by users — e.g. Miley Cyrus’ birthday wishes to her…

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Facebook is hiring 22 people for its secretive blockchain division

Mar25
by on March 25, 2019 at 3:08 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


The fact that Facebook is working on its own cryptocurrency and blockchain applications is no longer a secret – so it’s not surprising the company is looking to grow its distributed ledger division. The social media giant already has a 50-strong team squirreled away in a secretive corner of its Menlo Park head offices. Yet, going by the number of job postings on its careers page, it’s showing no signs of letting up, adding to the hires it made late last year. At the time of writing, there are 22 blockchain-related job postings on Facebook’s LinkedIn page. Here’s what the company’s…

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TNW2019 Daily: Over 200 speakers confirmed!

Mar25
by on March 25, 2019 at 2:38 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Events, Insider


It’s official: there are over 200 speakers confirmed for TNW2019, our tech conference in Amsterdam! The brightest minds in the industry will be sharing their visions of tech’s future, and you’re invited to join the conversation. With only 45 days to go, it’s a great time to recognize how excited I am about some of the latest additions to the lineup. Much amaze, much wow Our lineup features incredible names that will leave you inspired. I’ve previously highlighted that the CEOs of Booking, WeTransfer, and Logitech are speaking (just to name a few), and there are some new names worth…

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