A UK Court Ruled that A Crypto Research Paper Should Be Censored

Posted by admin on 29 June 2021, 7:00 am

A Prominent Bitcoin Promoter is Punished for Sharing the Satoshi Original Paper and Bitcoin Core Developers Surrender Sad day for freedom of speech in cryptography. The self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto Craig Wright has won a legal battle claiming copyright infringement on the part of bitcoin.org for hosting the Bitcoin original whitepaper. After censorship of Garcia paper …

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Crypto Currency Alt Coins are Booming

Posted by admin on 19 January 2021, 10:31 am

Best period in crypto history ever. ADDED 6 Feb 2021: traders who trade altcoins will be interested in this.

Half of EOS Tokens Will Be Lost In a Few Days

Posted by admin on 25 May 2018, 10:33 pm

All owners of EOS must take these steps before June 1st, or they will lose their tokens [they will fail to transfer to the new blockchain]. US citizens are apparently unable to hold EOS tokens legally. 5 billion dollars is at risk of loss at the moment.

A Nice Paper About ICOs

Posted by admin on 8 February 2018, 3:16 pm

Here it is, it covers primarily questions about regulation and investor protection. It stresses the fact that ICOs are transforming the way in which funding of new business ventures is done. Recommended for anyone interested in investing in ICOs or planning an ICO.

Bitcoin Crazy Ride Hits Wall Street

Posted by admin on 11 December 2017, 7:21 am

It is a big success for bitcoin and coincides with an incredible price rally where bitcoin has accomplished in 2017. In first days of 2017, bitcoin was worth 1000$. 5 months later in May it was at 2000$, 3 months later in August it was at 4000$, and after another 3 months in November it was at …

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Storm is Brewing Over Bitcoin Future

Posted by admin on 6 November 2017, 5:44 pm

If you read recent media reports about future of bitcoin, you wonder what is going on. For sure it is NOT clear which software or which blockchain we will be calling the “true” or “real” bitcoin in the future. Here is a selection of citations, all very recent, and all about the fork expected to …

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AntMiner Scandal: Miner Tracing and Shutdown Backdoor

Posted by admin on 27 April 2017, 4:29 pm

A proportion estimated to be as high as 70% of bitcoin mining chips used worldwide has a backdoor which allows one to trace the miners. In addition there is a malicious remote shutdown attack which could be triggered by a MITM attacker.

Name to Shame: Yahoo Finance

Posted by admin on 9 February 2017, 6:42 pm

For the last few months Yahoo Finance have been promoting a criminal investment scam.They present it as if it was a legit company, while it is not hard to see that this is a scam run by some serial fraudsters. Shame on you, Yahoo Finance!

Controversy Around Profitability of AltCoin Investment

Posted by admin on 23 October 2016, 5:26 pm

There is a considerable controversy around whether investing in a balanced basket of cryptocoins is a good idea. Two serious sources show that this sort of investment enjoys steady growth without a lot of downturns, cf. DLT10 Index and a recent detailed study which concentrates on a shorter period with excellent returns since Jan 2016 (cf. also …

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Bitcoin Block Reward Halving

Posted by admin on 9 July 2016, 8:39 am

In a few minutes, cf. countdown, the amount of bitcoins attributed to each block mined will be divided by 2 in one single step. A rare event which happens once approximately every 4 years. This is an artificial shock which is tolerated by the bitcoin community in the name of misplaced ideology that whatever was decided …

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