Upon a Crunchbase investigation of the companies attached to the open letter (text) published on Blockchain.info's blog supporting BIP-101, a correlation arose that indicates these companies have most likely been compromised for some time. All of these companies who have been known to employ heavy KYC terms, are heavily funded by fiat institutions that want to pervert Bitcoin. Continue reading
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Teenager Receives Eleven Years Prison, Lifetime Supervision In Exchange For Guilty Plea
Former Coin Brief author Ali Shukri Amin, who pleaded guilty to a charge of "conspiring to provide material support to terrorists" in June of this year has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Claude M. Hilton to a period of 11 years in prison. In addition to his prison sentence, the 17 year old will face a lifetime of supervised release with added redundancy in the form of monitoring any of his future internet activity.
Speaking to Amin's sentence, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Dana J. Boente remarked: Continue reading
Trilema Publishes Bitcoin Competency Exam
Qntra earlier reported on the deficiencies of the CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4) operated by the good friends of Vitalik Buterin of Ethereum infamy. The lunacy of the certifications inspired Mircea Popescu to create a superior alternative. Trilema has published a system for scoring one's basic comprehension of Bitcoin called the Basic Bitcoin Competency Certification. Continue reading
Concerns for the Toomim Brothers Mining
BIP-101 requires 750 of the last 1000 consecutive blocks to have a version bits set to 0x20000007 in hex to trigger a hard fork to remove the block size limit. Qntra recently published an article indicating the negligible miner support for XT, of which Jonathan Toomim commented the brothers' mining initiative would be supporting BIP-101 with blocks they solve. This lead into a brief investigation of the Toomim brothers who use GPG, yet are not in the Web of Trust. Continue reading
Hearn's Blacklist Shenanigans
Qntra and others have been detailing potential ulterior motives for the push for an XT hard fork. Populist support for "Bitcoin"XT tends to ignore code that has not been well publicized or that they find inconvenient to acknowledge. The code in question relates to the deanonymization of XT nodes running on Tor and the blacklisting of Tor exit addresses. This is achieved through an IP address blacklist of nodes which "misbehave" and checked daily against a list of nodes maintained by Mike Hearn which the XT client dutifully fetches. Continue reading
Ashley Madison and Established Men Experience Data Liberation
In a PGP-signed statement,1 a group of freedom fighters2 known only as "The Impact Team" followed up on their promise to release the database of user information that they rightfully obtained from Avid Life Media's Ashley Madison, a popular dating website dedicated to fostering extramarital relations, and Established Men, a website dedicated to pairing up beautiful young women with successful older men. Continue reading
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Avid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and Established Men. We have explained the fraud, deceit, and stupidity of ALM and their members. Now everyone gets to see their data.
Find someone you know in here? Keep in mind the site is a scam with thousands of fake female profiles. See ashley madison fake profile lawsuit; 90-95% of actual users are male. Chances are your man signed up on the world's biggest affair site, but never had one. He just tried to. If that distinction matters.
Find yourself in here? It was ALM that failed you and lied to you. Prosecute them and claim damages. Then move on with your life. Learn your lesson and make amends. Embarrassing now, but you'll get over it.
Any data not signed with key 6E50 3F39 BA6A EAAD D81D ECFF 2437 3CD5 74AB AA38 is fake.
Naturally, the woefully incompetent Avid Life Media Chief Executive Officer Noel Biderman called the group "cyber-terrorists," very much in the same vein as Darkode or The Pirate Bay Four, but this is no more genuine than the marketplace thief who bumps into you, steals your wallet out of your pocket in broad daylight, and then screams "THIEF!" at you before he ducks into the shadows with your ID and money. ↩
No XTCoin Support Committed to the Blockchain Yet
Days after Mike Hearn and Gavin Andressen announced a not quite Bitcoin client that when triggered by a particular set of events create an altchain, miner adoption of their forking client remains so low not a single block containing a vote for their coup has been committed to the blockchain. This is in the face of a self declared mining operation claiming a third of a petahash swearing their fealty to Hearn and Andressen's new pet altcoin. In the time since Hearn announced the fork though a pseudonode implementation which passes most tests to be counted as a forking XT node has been published alongside a full node Bitcoin Client which appears to be an XTCoin node in everything except actually forking over to XTCoin if a fork is actually ever triggered. With this early reception to Mike Hearn and Gavin Andressen's fork ultimatum the chances of an actual XTCoin creating fork occurring appear to be low.
Hearn Releases Code to Potentially Fork XTC from Bitcoin
This weekend Mike Hearn announced the release of a version of his BitcoinXT client which would hard fork a new altcoin referred to here as XTCoin from the Bitcoin network. Should enough blocks be mined which profess to contain a vote to trigger Hearn's XTCoin fork, the XTCoin blockchain would split from the Bitcoin Blockchain an allow blocks to be mined at a maximum size of 8 megabytes each growing exponentially to a maximum size of 8 gigabytes 20 years after XTCoin forks should XTCoin somehow manage to keep enough hashpower to continue producing new blocks over the entire span of time. As mentioned in the Hard Fork Missile Crisis XTCoin, like any other altcoin forked from Bitcoin and fraudulently misrepresenting itself as Bitcoin would come under devastating economic attack which would almost certainly render further mining on the XTCoin chain a costly money losing endeavor. Continue reading
Released Clinton Email Shows Clinton Requested Book on Deleting Email
ABC News reports that there is a gem among the latest batch of Hillary Clinton emails1 released in a dump by the State Department. Hillary requested the book Send: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better2 which includes subjects like “The Email That Can Land You In Jail” and “How to Delete Something So It Stays Deleted” and still others like “Stupid (and Real) Email Phrases That Wound Up in Court” noting that orgies of deletion when faced with a subpoena only serve to make the deleting party look guiltier than they do already. Clinton is currently the frontrunner for the presidential nomination in the United State's Democratic party while her family friend Donald Trump is the current frontrunner for the United State's other socialist party's nomination.
Montreal Expo Postponed For Lack of Sponsors
The Montreal Gazette reports (archived) that a local Bitcoin expo being promoted by a group referring to itself as the "Bitcoin Embassy" has been postponed due to a lack of sponsors. Many Bitcoin related ventures which lavishly threw around sponsorship money in the name of "promoting Bitcoin" in the past have been forced to cut back to focus on their business. The expo was scheduled to run from August 21st to 23rd. The Bitcoin Embassy self reports as having been founded in 2013.