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Twitter has been dealing with a cryptocurrency scambot epidemic on its platform for months – and the situation has gotten so out of hand that even Elon Musk is talking about it now. But instead of bashing the odd trend like anyone else, Musk hinted he is somewhat impressed by the individuals running the network of bots, referring to their “work” as “mad skillz.” He also misspelled Ethereum. I want to know who is running the Etherium scambots! Mad skillz … — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 8, 2018 Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has since noted the occurrence marked the first…
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76.2% of abducted children who were murdered in the US were found dead within the first four hours. It’s a terrifying statistic I recently learned listening to the podcast In the Dark, about the kidnapping and murder of 11-year old Jacob Wetterling in 1989. In those first four hours, cars could have driven hundreds of miles, traces could have been erased, and bodies could have been buried. It’s a no-brainer, of course: The sooner an investigation starts, the better the chances the perpetrator gets caught. This is true for missing person cases and for every other type of crime. And in…
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China’s central bank has hailed it’s cryptocurrency crackdown a complete success. Declared by the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) and reported by state media, data apparently shows that the Chinese currency is now involved in less than one percent of all Bitcoin trades worldwide. So how did we get here? In September 2017, Renminbi-to-Bitcoin trades made up over 90 percent. Unnerved by the high volume, the government immediately outlawed fiat from being used in cryptocurrency purchases and even imposed travel bans on Huobi and OKCoin executives, two of the nation’s largest exchanges. It wasn’t just the major players facing government…
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Earlier this year, TNW wrote about the efforts of a UK company trying to revive the humble Psion PDA. So far, Planet Computers has released a compelling handheld — the Gemini — which we were big fans of. Interestingly, Planet Computers isn’t just focusing its efforts on hardware. The firm has launched an updated version of the iconic Psion Agenda calendar app, which is available for virtually any Android-based device. The Gemini Agenda app faithfully recreates the beloved calendar app that was available on Psion’s late-90’s handhelds, but in a way that wouldn’t look out of place in 2018. It…
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