Craig Wright and Roger Ver are finally in the same jurisdiction. Craig Wright, a self-proclaimed creator of Bitcoin (BTC), is reportedly continuing to file more defamation suits against perceived rivals, despite none of his previous attempts turning out to be successful. On Aug. 25, Wright filed a libel suit against major industry figure, Roger Ver, with […]
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Check out this week’s Bad Crypto podcast. Bitcoin was down a bit this week, stopping just above $11,000. That increase in volatility is only to be expected, say some experts, as we approach the end of some BTC futures and options contracts. Other contributors to increased volatility include Bitcoin’s long period of consolidation and a […]
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Another action-packed week for crypto in Japan has passed. This week’s headlines from Japan included one of country’s leaders describing Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto’s dream as meaningful, LayerX Labs collaborating with a Japanese university for blockchain research, the FINSUM blockchain conference hosts notable discussion on security tokens offerings, and the head of Monex Group saying […]
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Adam Back recalls Hal as a constructive personality who never engaged in squabbles. It’s been six years since Hal Finney passed away from the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS. Finney is known as an early supporter of Bitcoin (BTC), and one of the first people to respond to Satoshi Nakamoto’s initial post on the cypherpunk […]
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Leah McGrath Goodman maintains her belief that Dorian Nakamoto was the founder of Bitcoin. Leah McGrath Goodman, the Newsweek journalist who named Japanese-American man Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto as Bitcoin’s founder in 2014, is doubling down on her claim. In an Aug. 25 episode of the Pomp Podcast with Anthony Pompliano, McGrath Goodman revealed details of […]
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Some Parity and OpenEthereum users are stuck between a bugged client and a months-long resync. An update in the OpenEthereum client, the community successor of the Parity client for Ethereum, made the nodes running on the new version essentially useless. The bug appears to have been introduced in the 2.7.2 version of OpenEthereum, upon which […]
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A new full-page ad in HK-based tabloid-style newspaper Apple Daily tells readers to ditch banks today and switch to Bitcoin. Another ad for cryptocurrency has appeared in print media, this time without promoting a specific business or service. A full-page ad for Bitcoin (BTC) appeared on the front page of the Hong Kong-based tabloid-style newspaper […]
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Satoshi Nakamoto used a single PC to mine 1.1M Bitcoin Lerner made a preview of his latest findings available to Cointelegraph. His research is based on the irregular pattern of the Least-Significant-Byte (LSB) of the nonce field of block. This past June, Lerner published a blog that expanded on his original research from 2013. He suggested […]
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Was Yam Finance’s short-lived rebasing project a useful economic experiment or just another scam? The crypto community is divided. There are some decentralized finance projects that make flash loans; Yam Finance (YAM) was a DeFi project that made a flash appearance. YAM, which initially described itself as a “minimally viable monetary experiment,” launched on August […]
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The global economic transformation now faces the main question: What to choose — centralization or decentralization? A global pandemic, massive and worldwide protests, job automation, environmental issues and geopolitical tensions are just a few of the challenges facing humanity today. Amid the chaos, keystone global institutions and bureaucrats have openly discussed the present day as […]
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