TASS reports that American retailer Amazon.com is requesting Crimean residents delete their Amazon.com accounts by February 13th, or Amazon will deactivate their accounts by force. This move follows similar abandonment of Crimea by Google and PayPal.
Monthly Archives: February 2015
Canadian Man's Letter To Court: Accept Bitcoin As The One And Only Global Currency
Guided by "the hand of God", Canadian man Jaren Wayne Feser smashed his pickup truck into Calgary Courthouse back in July of 2013. Feser not only caused $80,000 worth of damage but according to Bench Justice Mary Moreau, violated a safe space. Continue reading
Bitcoin ATM Operators Remove Machines In Singapore
The Straits Times reports that despite much fanfare at the arrival of Bitcoin ATMs in Singapore during 2014, at least five have since been converted to non-bitcoin accepting kiosks or removed entirely. Continue reading
MuckRock: DEA Documents Show Parallel Construction Widely Used
Yesterday MuckRock released a number of United States Drug Enforcement Agency documents acquired through a Freedom of Information Act request. The documents reveal that methods of parallel case construction are widely utilized and trained institutionally within the Drug Enforcement Agency and collaborating agencies, with strong institutional controls in place to prevent knowledge of parallel construction involved in cases from reaching any court officers, including the prosecutors assigned the cases. Continue reading
Ulbricht Show Trial Ends
After being precluded from presenting much of a defense at all a jury has found Ross Ulbricht guilty of running the Silk Road deliberating for around three hours. This falls in line with the money on Bitcoin prediction markets which leaned towards deliberations lasting under six hours. Mainstream press outlets have even begun questioning the competence and intentions behind the way defense lawyer Josh Dratel handled the case over its entire duration.
Banca d’Italia Ends AML/KYC For Bitcoin Businesses, Opts Out Of Economic Death
Less than two years ago, on March 31, 2013 to be exact, Bitcoin's premier thought leader Mircea Popescu penned the following, Time for Europe to repeal the US-backed AML crap, from which: Continue reading
IBL, Almost Larger Than IRL
First ever (as far as we currently know – if you know different say something) Bitcoin transaction to be broadcast from Antarctica, in sum of 0.1337 BTC, originated at Port Lockroy and went to Trilema's paywall piggybank, courtesy of Chris Lamprecht. Continue reading
Is Bitnplay A Case Of Shuffle Up And Steal?
With the launch day for Bitnplay's Bitcoin based poker website having come and gone with yet a single hand to be dealt, it appears that the debut event for the site was cancelled due to unexpected server issues. Opting to update poker players via twitter instead of their own website, Bitnplay stated: Continue reading
Phishing With Coinbase
Coinbase has announced their intention to reimburse a small number of users who were the victim of a phishing attack. The attacker, who emailed users a purported new service agreement from Coinbase, used the Coinbase API to fool users into approving full permissions for his 3rd party app so as to withdraw bitcoins from the Coinbase wallet. As a result of the successful attack, Coinbase now claim they will review the approval process for applications using their API. Continue reading
UBS Group's CIO Wants To Throw Bitcoin Under The Buss
In an interview with WatersTechnology, UBS Group's CIO Oliver Bussmann discussed his plans for the future and how he has set his sights on technology that he believes will transform how companies such as UBS Group operate. Digital ledger technology or as he calls it, Blockchain, is one such technology on his radar. Continue reading