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Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bakkt processes $5M worth of Bitcoin futures in first week’

Sep30
by on September 30, 2019 at 8:41 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Hard Fork, Insider


Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Pasteur used to say: Talk to a stranger on a bus! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, September 29 2019, at a price of $8,104. That’s a minor 1.72 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$141.85. It was the lowest closing price in one hundred and nine days. We’re still 59 percent below Bitcoin‘s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017). Bitcoin market cap…

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Moonday Mornings: NBA blocks player’s plan to tokenize contract with Ethereum

Sep30
by on September 30, 2019 at 8:31 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Good morning Forkers, you know what time it is. It’s Moonday Mornings, Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekends top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines you can’t afford to miss. Check it out. 1. The Ukrainian government is allegedly preparing plans to legalize cryptocurrency in the country, The Block reports. The move is being pushed by the incoming digital transformation deputy minister Alexander Bornyakov, who says legalization will benefit the country and its government through taxation. 2. Ecommerce website Overstock.com and its former execs are being sued for securities fraud, a US states district court document states. The document, filed last Friday,…

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Netflix shows free episode to non-subscribers as streaming competition heats up

Sep30
by on September 30, 2019 at 8:09 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, India


After introducing $3 per month mobile-only plan in India, Netflix is experimenting with a new strategy to lure more subscribers – free episodes for non-registered users. The streaming company is offering to show the first episode of its new series, Bard of Blood, for free even if you’re not a Netflix subscriber. The company said the free offering is only for a limited time: At Netflix, we try different ways to bring people closer to great stories. We believe many people will find the thrilling story of spy Kabir Anand very appealing and are excited to make the first episode…

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Byte Me #8: Eating tampons, triggering men, and a horny pen

Sep30
by on September 30, 2019 at 8:06 am
Posted In: Around the Web, newsletter


Subscribe to our monthly Byte Me newsletter NOW! Welcome back to Byte Me, our feminist newsletter that makes everyone mad <3 Since we last spoke, Anouk was made the first-ever queen of editorial, Cara’s edgy football club won their division (and she scored a bajillion goals), and Gigi’s mum won a big tech award, so that bodes well for her genes. Each month, our gloriously talented designer, Saïna, illustrates a weird comment or tweet we receive from one of TNW’s misogynistic, or just odd, readers. Here’s this month’s:  What? Let’s unpack this, with art. the bloody news The Irish Times wrote about why Greta Thunberg is so triggering for certain…

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China’s new 500-megapixel ‘super camera’ can instantly recognize you in a crowd

Sep30
by on September 30, 2019 at 7:09 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia


China is already home to extensive facial recognition technology, using it to identify criminals, monitor students’ attention, and even let citizens purchase train tickets. Now, in an attempt to enrich its surveillance arsenal, reseachers from the country have developed a 500 megapixel facial recognition camera capable of capturing “thousands of faces at a stadium in perfect detail and generate their facial data for the cloud while locating a particular target in an instant.” The AI-based cloud camera service was developed in collaboration between Shanghai-based Fudan University and Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences in…

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