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Lewys Martin who plead guilty to hacking Halifax Bank and demanding a ransom of 2800 BTC in exchange for not releasing the details of 28,000 account holders will likely have his sentence announced according to City AM. A detail of particular note is that the police:
managed to trace Martin despite him using specialised software to shield his IP address.
The Breakout Gaming Initial Coin Offerring has concluded with a total of 387.65244039 BTC being raised. The funds have since moved from 33Bghpzm4pgbSRgnqS63ZBf6dnSjbGc6Sf, having been split up and sent to various addresses. Following the sale, Breakout Gaming's CEO Billy Chung and head of marketing Gian Perroni spoke to CoinDesk1 and used it as an opportunity to misrepresent the facts surrounding the sale/scam. Continue reading
Despite Qntra's mention, CoinDesk only linked to us via a Google cache page. LOL ↩
Yesterday CoinFire published an article titled "Is GAW Miners lying about partnerships? Telling statements from Walmart, Amazon, Target and More" in which some of the claims made by Josh Garza are proven to be false, specifically: Continue reading
Reuters reports that the European Parliament is working on a resolution that proposes a forced split between Google's European search engine business and the rest of their operations. Reuters offers that: Continue reading
There are reports that the Netherlands has repatriated a substantial portion of its gold holdings from the Federal Bank of New York to their own physical custody. This move changes their allocation of gold held at home from 11% to 31%, and the portion held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 51% to 31% while the remainder of their holdings are split between the Bank of England and Canada. There is no news yet as to whether they've drilled the bars and found tungsten.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and ex-Bank of England Governor Mervyn King both spoke at the CME Group conference held in Florida this past Monday through Wednesday where they were asked by an audience member what they thought about Bitcoin. Continue reading
Gavin Andresen of the illegitimate Bitcon Fundation has posted an article titled "Strengthening the Core" in which he claims development of Bitcoin Core is less centralised than ever before while taking a dump on Satoshi for having previously completely controlled the project. Continue reading
Terry Campbell, president of the Canadian Bankers Association shared his views on what he thinks Bitcoin is and is not in a short interview with the Edmonton Journal. The CBA represents 60 domestic banks as well as foreign bank subsidiaries/branches operating in Canada. Continue reading
In its continuing case against Kim Dotcom, lawyers for the United States Department of Justice are proposing that Dotcom's objections to seizing his assets around the world be completely tossed aside under the doctrine of fugitive disenfranchisement. This is in spite of the fact that Kim Dotcom is not under any reasonable definition a "US Person" who reasonably could be a fugitive. A few points: Continue reading
In a blog post the communications and marketing director of Vessenes' Bitcoin Foundation Jinyoung Lee Englund announced that they would be shifting their focus almost entirely towards the goal of funding "core development" in the wake of results from a member survey. In the past this Foundation has engaged in a mix of activities including lobbying, marketing, and "outreach" in addition to providing Gavin Andressen a salary to work on the Foundation's fork of Satoshi's Bitcoin codebase. After justifying the move in their post they offer the following: Continue reading