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In what seems like a Wall Street invasion of Bitcoin, it was announced today Blythe Masters of precious metal price suppression infamy has accepted the position of Chief Executive of Digital Asset Holdings LLC. The company will build software to build a platform for trading "digitized versions of traditional financial intruments" such as CDOs or Options.
The Wall Street Journal which detailed the announcement in a recent article quoted Masters: Continue reading
Reuters reports that an auction for 50,000 BTC held last week by the USMS was allegedly won by three bidders who each took home 27,000, 20,000 and 3,000 BTC respectively. Spokesman for the USMS Lynzey Donahue confirmed with Reuters via email that the transfer of the coins is complete, but did not specify who the winners are. The distribution of the 50,000 BTC believed to have been purchased at auction is as follows: Continue reading
The Daily Dot reports that the developers of the Tor software and network have decided to set an ambitious fund raising goal for this year. Specifically they aspire to reduce the portion of their funding which comes from the United States government to under half of their total. Last year roughly three quarters of their funding came from the United States Government. This follows another piece published by Yasha Levine on March 1st where Levine highlighted that the "activists" behind Tor, Open Whisper Systems, and other popular "privacy" ventures receive funding from the Broadcasting Board of Governors, a Federal Agency born in the CIA which specializes in propaganda and psychological warfare. Continue reading
As expected, Ross Ulbricht is now seeking a new trial in an attempt to overturn his conviction for narcotics trafficking, money laundering and others. USA Today reports that earlier today, Ulbricht's lawyer filed legal arguments which suggest prosecutors for the State: Continue reading
AMC/VMC 'CEO' Kenneth Slaughter has been ordered to pay civil penalties of over $30,000 for multiple violations of Missouri Securities Act. Violations include, but are not limited to: offering/selling unregistered securities, making untrue statements and omitting to state material facts. Continue reading
A 17 year old teenager from Virginia in the United States who was arrested by the FBI last Friday for his alleged involvement in providing assistance to a man who wished to travel to Syria so as to fight alongside ISIS has been identified as Ali Shukri Amin.
Amin, who wrote for the Bitcoin news site Coin Brief on a variety of topics including Dark Wallet and Open Bazaar, is reported to have been charged as a juvenile for his as yet to be announced crimes. Attempts to charge the student as an adult are also reportedly under way. Continue reading
Alleged emails which detail the inner workings and day to day operations of Homero Joshua Garza's fraud outfit known as GAW Miners have been leaked. The damning emails not only confirm long held suspicions about Garza's operations but also bring to light other debacles GAW Miners finds itself involved in. The emails confirm: Continue reading
Former United States Centeral Intelligence Agency Director General David Petraeus has accepted a plea deal with the Department of Justice to avoid trial in a case that involves him leaking National Security secrets to his mistress. Petraeus plead guilty to a single misdemeanor charge. Continue reading
Havelock Investments, the Bitcoin "securities" trading website, which has in the past been home to ill fated ventures such as NeoBee and Cognitive Mining now has been offline for the declared purpose of "website updates" for a period approaching 10 days now. Today, March 2nd is the most recent estimate Havelock has provided as to when service might be restored. Their last announcement on this matter from Bitcointalk (February 25th, 2015): Continue reading
After a voting fiasco which included reports of disenfranchised voters, the election results are in, and the Vessennes' Bitcoin Foundation will be welcoming Oliver Janssens to their board. Janssens claim to fame was using his early adopter made fortune to post a $100,000 bounty for a software platform to replace Vessennes' Bitcoin foundation. Today he took to Twitter: Continue reading