Today Coindesk announced their acquisition by Barry Silbert's Digital Currency Group (archived). Silbert's group was reportedly an early investor in that website. They further announced with the acquisition a May conference in the capital of anti-Bitcoin activity.
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Ulbricht Appellate Brief Filed
Ross Ulbricht's attorneys have filed their appellate brief. Full text below or pdf here. Continue reading
In Memoriam
Two US Navy Boats And Ten Sailors In Iranian Custody
Iran has reportedly taken custody of two small United States Navy boats and the ten sailors accompanying them in an Iranian controlled portion of the Persian Gulf (archived). Representatives of Iran and the United States are reportedly negotiating a resolution to this situation.
Europol Claims DD4BC Action
Europol is claiming one arrest and several other detentions in relation to the long running DD4BC group (archived). DD4BC began their career by utilizing denial of service extortion attacks against various Bitcoin properties before moving on to extort various fiat interests in the last year.
Gavin and Toomim Present: "Classic" – Another Hard Fork Risk
RBS Supports Qntra's Dire Predictions For Fiat In 2016
The Royal Bank of Scotland is reportedly advising client to sell everything because shit is going down (archived). This supports predictions made by Qntra that 2016 more than 2015 is going to be, and has so far been a very bad year for fiat interests. We are only 12 days into 2016. Sorry for your loss.
Intel Skylake Brings Optimized #ROWHAMMER Exploit
In spite of marketing that Intel's latest Skylake family of chips would be more resistant to the Rowhammer exploit through use of DDR4 memory, it has come out that not only does Rowhammer survive (archived), exploiting it is more optimizable than ever (archived) thanks to the new clflushopt instruction. Remember to watch your bits and be selective in the code and hardware you choose to run.
Earliest Possible Date For XTCoin Fork Passes
Today was the first possible date for XTCoin to fork away from the Bitcoin blockchain. It lacked the backing to do so in spite substantial social engineering attempts at great cost to various USG organs.
Zero-Conf Shenanigans Lead To Peter Todd Reddit Ban
For demonstrating the absolute insecurity offered by unconfirmed Bitcoin transactions, Peter Todd was suspended from Reddit. Peter Todd, without using any script hash shenanigans mundanely sent a transaction with a low fee which was followed by a transaction with a higher fee using the same inputs. Miners opted to mine the transaction with higher fees as they often tend to. While many try to use unconfirmed Bitcoin transactions as a part of various pseudo business practices, actual uses demanding Bitcoin also demand the commitment of complete transactions to the blockchain.