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Redditor spots murderers on NBA trading card

Dec13
by on December 13, 2018 at 5:24 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, distract


A Redditor recently recognized what appears to be Lyle and Erik Menendez, brothers convicted of murdering their father and stepmother, in the background of an NBA trading card. News spread quickly in the collector’s community prompting a rush on eBay, where the company’s dubious take-down strategy has listers scratching their heads. The card, a 1990-1991 season NBA Hoops Mark Jackson, shows two young men who bear a striking – if not irrefutable – resemblance to the notorious killers. And the timeline works perfectly, so there’s every reason to believe this is legitimate. As Beckett, a well-known source for trading card…

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Razer wants you to mine cryptocurrency for store credit – don’t

Dec13
by on December 13, 2018 at 3:47 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Yesterday, Razer announced the launch of its SoftMiner program which uses a computer’s redundant resources to mine cryptocurrency when the user is “away from keyboard” (AFK). Only the user doesn’t get any of the mined cryptocurrency, all they get is store credit at Razer, known as Razer Silver. When a person runs the SoftMiner program on their PC they are actually contributing to a third party platform called GammaNow, Motherboard reports. This third party is responsible for managing the mined cryptocurrency which will include Ether and a handful of other altcoins. GammaNow pays Razer a fee for all the cryptocurrency…

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Razer wants you to mine cryptocurrency for store credit – don’t

Dec13
by on December 13, 2018 at 3:47 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Yesterday, Razer announced the launch of its SoftMiner program which uses a computer’s redundant resources to mine cryptocurrency when the user is “away from keyboard” (AFK). Only the user doesn’t get any of the mined cryptocurrency, all they get is store credit at Razer, known as Razer Silver. When a person runs the SoftMiner program on their PC they are actually contributing to a third party platform called GammaNow, Motherboard reports. This third party is responsible for managing the mined cryptocurrency which will include Ether and a handful of other altcoins. GammaNow pays Razer a fee for all the cryptocurrency…

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ConsenSys teaches devs how to make their first dApp on the blockchain

Dec13
by on December 13, 2018 at 2:21 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


This morning, developers from blockchain technology services firm ConsenSys and Kauri took to the Hard Fork Decentralized stage to show attendees how to create their first Ethereum-based dApp. Taking the role of educators was lead developer at Kauri, Joshua Cassidy and lead technical evangelist at ConsenSys Catalyst, Abel Tedros. Kauri is one of ConsenSys’ supported blockchain startups. Through creating a “global knowledge ecosystem,” Kauri is trying to help fledgling Ethereum developers find their feet when coding smart contracts for the Ethereum blockchain. Essentially, Kauri uses the blockchain to help connect coders to blockchain dev resources that are useful when developing…

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