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3 pivotal Bitcoin figures thought to be Satoshi that you should know about

Aug21
by on August 21, 2019 at 1:42 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork, Hard Fork Basics


Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. One of today’s greatest technology mysteries is not how Bitcoin works, but who created it. On October 31, 2008, someone, somewhere, published Bitcoin‘s white paper on a cryptography mailing list under the ‘Satoshi Nakamoto‘ pseudonym. It’s been well over 10 years but despite the many Faketoshis, we aren’t any closer to knowing who the real Nakamoto is. There have been many candidates, some of them even self-nominated (aka Craig Steven Wright and most recently James Bilal…

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Liquidators of dead shitcoin factory Cryptopia must reconcile 900,000 user accounts one-by-one

Aug21
by on August 21, 2019 at 1:27 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


The liquidator overseeing the slow death of New Zealand-based shitcoin factory Cryptopia has issued its latest update and states progress is “pleasing.” However, it’s not all been plain sailing for liquidators Grant Thornton. It took several months for the liquidator to obtain Cryptopia‘s data from the exchange’s third-party data servers. What’s more, the data appears to show that users didn’t have individual wallets. Yikes. While that might sound trivial, it was the only record of customer holdings Cryptopia maintained. In some cases, it was also the only place certain crypto-assets were stored. In reality, obtaining this data was one of…

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I’m scared shitless of my new robot colleague

Aug21
by on August 21, 2019 at 1:20 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Opinion


There’s a new member in our editorial team: Satoshi Nakaboto. Usually I get along great with my colleagues, we joke, we share our Monday blues, and braid each other’s hair — but Satoshi is… different. He’s a bot.  Amazingly futuristic? Absolutely. We’ve gone beyond just talking about when robots enter the workforce, and actually made it happen. We wrote a script which scours the internet for news about Bitcoin; how its price is developing, what people are tweeting/writing about it, and then it puts together all that info in human understandable terms — derived from rule-based phrases and terms we…

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Google, Apple, and Mozilla won’t budge on Kazakhstan’s sneaky plot to spy on citizens

Aug21
by on August 21, 2019 at 12:40 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Google and Mozilla stepped up their efforts to block Kazakhstan’s government from intercepting web traffic within the country. In a joint announcement made today, the two companies said they are deploying a technical solution to prevent the use of ‘Qaznet Trust Network’ root CA certificate in Chrome and Firefox. Apple is also said to be taking similar preventive measures to protect Safari users, per latest report from Reuters. The move comes after reports from July suggested the government had instructed internet service providers to require people in the country to download and install a state-issued certificate on all devices (and in every browser) in…

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CHEAP: A 9.7-inch iPad? For $249? You must be lying (I’m not!)

Aug21
by on August 21, 2019 at 12:39 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Often, when I am lying in my bed or lounging on the sofa, I don’t particularly enjoy reading articles or watching videos on my phone’s (relatively) small screen. That’s where a tablet comes in handy. And when it comes to tablets, there’s nothing better than Apple’s 9.7-inch iPad (32 GB, Wi-Fi) which is selling for just $249, down from $329. I’ve used this iPad before, and I have to say this is the perfect size for a tablet. This is not as small as…

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