Just like the seasoned freedom fighter who decapitates his victim without hesitation, so too does Bitcoin. Riding high upon the war horse that is its network, a bitcoin dismounts so that it may grab a fiat currency by the hair so as to tilt the victim's head back before slitting its throat. As the life blood of fiat begins to drain away, its issuers and supporters cannot believe nor accept what is happening to it. Continue reading
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It's Easy To Call Us A Tiny Minority When You Engage In Vote Manipulation
As the drums of war thunder louder and louder, USGavin's effort to frame objection to the blocksize increase as coming from a tiny minority continues. But what must one do when evidence to the contrary begins to appear on outlets for your propaganda such as reddit's /r/bitcoin? What if this evidence clearly depicted that not only is there a debate to be had, but that this "tiny minority" is in fact anything but small. What would you do as it becomes increasingly apparent that it's going to be a struggle to continue to toe the "tiny minority" line unless action is taken? Continue reading
The Crypto-Mises Podcast Second Episode Is Now Available
Daniel Krawisz and Michael Goldstein of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute have released the second episode of their podcast titled The Crypto-Mises Podcast. Episode two discusses why the desire for monetary stability is based on economic fallacies.
The second episode is available to stream via YouTube, an MP3 download and iTunes. Future episodes are soon to come with yet to be announced special guests.
Bitcoin On The Agenda For Cisco's Leadership Council Event
The agenda for the Cisco CEO-CIO Leadership Council has now been released. The website describes the event as one that brings together:
CEOs from Fortune Global 500 companies with their CIOs, or senior most IT strategists. The event's highly interactive format encourages peer collaboration and discussions on the most timely and transformative issues facing today's organizations.
Bitcoin.org Blacklisted In Russia
Bitcoin.org has been added to a list of domains names forbidden within the Russian Federation. Despite being approved for blacklisting back in September of 2014, it is only today that the ban has gone into effect. The decision to approve the ban was made by the суд otherwise known as the Federal Court Registry. Continue reading
CoinTerra Goes From Bad To Worse
Things for the well-funded startup with a team of experienced ASIC designers who some how managed to go from hero to zero in less than two years are going from bad to worse. CoinTerra, who are rumoured to be on the brink of bankruptcy, are now being sued for a total of USD $5.4 million including $1.4 million in unpaid bills and an alleged breach of contract. Continue reading
Winning Poker Network Roll Out Bitcoin Deposit/Withdrawal Option
Winning Poker Network has announced on the twoplustwo poker forum1 that it will once again accept bitcoin deposits and that bitcoin withdrawals will soon follow. Skins which currently operate on WPN include America's Card Room, True Poker, BetCRIS Poker, BetDSI Poker, FabPoker, BookMaker Poker, Betcoin Poker and Ya Poker. Continue reading
It is not unheard of for poker sites and networks to make announcements via that forum. ↩
New All Time High In Difficulty Forces Out Cloudmining Service CEX.IO
Off the back of yet another increase in the Bitcoin mining difficulty to an all time high of 43,971,662,056 comes news that CEX.IO has suspended their cloud mining services. CEX.IO state that the increasing difficulty coupled with the recent drop in the price of bitcoin lead to its decision. An update posted to the CEX.IO blog reads: Continue reading
Use Riseup.net And Read Books? That's A Paddlin'
Last December, Qntra was the first English language news site to report on the raids by Spanish police at the cybersquat known as Kasa de la Muntanya and while police raids and squats are typically of no import, this raid was notable for the squat's association with a Bitcoin wallet project known as the Dark Wallet. Vice's Motherboard has now posted an update which contains quotes which would be hilarious if not for the fact they were made by the Judge presiding over the matter. Continue reading
Yet Another Silk Road Marketplace Launches
An as yet unknown1 individual or group has taken up the mantle of DPR and launched the next iteration of the Silk Road marketplace, but this time around it's not accessible via Tor. SilkRoadReloaded, which promotes security as being its number one feature, launched a few days ago on the I2P network and is currently being promoted throughout various dark marketplace and other subreddits by someone assumed to be connected to the new service. Continue reading
At least to the public. ↩