Steer Clear of Libra Cryptocurrency Scams| David Murphy
Libra hasn’t even officially debuted on Facebook yet, but the highly anticipated cryptocurrency has already gotten a ton of interests—from scammers. In fact, it’s hard to tell who is more interested in Libra at this point: those looking to make a quick buck f…
Facebook’s Libra hearings in Congress are the best free entertainment you’ll get all week| Elizabeth Lopatto
Who needs comedy when we have cryptocurrency?
It Would Take This 50-Year-Old NASA Computer More Than a Quintillion Years to Mine a Single Bitcoin Block| Andrew Liszewski
Ken Shirriff is a hardware hacker who also has a penchant for restoring old computers, including the Xerox Alto, which had a huge influence on Steve Jobs and the Macintosh computer. His latest project was bringing one of NASA’s Apollo-era guidance computers b…
I tried to pay with bitcoin at a Mexico City bar—it didn’t go well| Timothy B. Lee
After 10 years, Bitcoin is still searching for practical applications.
Bitcoin Scammers Try and Fail to Sextort 86-Year-Old Woman Who Just Wanted a Free Bagel| Victoria Song
All 86-year-old Arlene Kaganove wanted was a free bagel from Panera on her birthday. Instead, after signing up for the My Panera rewards program, Kaganove was sent threatening emails demanding she pay $1,400 worth of bitcoin—in exchange for a supposed recordi…
Hackers steal $32 million worth of crypto from Japanese exchange Bitpoint| Stan Schroeder
Keeping your cryptocurrency at exchanges, unless you absolutely must do so, still isn't prudent. New proof of that comes from Japan, where cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint has been hacked to the tune of $32 million, CoinDesk reports. In a notice on its websit…
Despite Trump's anti-crypto tweets, the IRS wants its cut of virtual currency profits| Rachel Kraus
Cryptocurrency might be a challenge to the primacy of the U.S. dollar, but that's not stopping the Internal Revenue Service from wanting a piece of the action. The IRS announced Friday that it was sending letters to 10,000 cryptocurrency holders informing the…
Bitcoin Mining On an Apollo Guidance Computer: 10.3 Seconds Per Hash| BeauHD
Slashdot reader volvox_voxel shares an excerpt from the latest blog post from software engineer Ken Shirriff, who is well known for his work on restoring some of the rarest computing hardware to its working condition: We've been restoring an Apollo Guidance C…
Coinbase faces negligence suit after mishandling its launch of Bitcoin Cash| Yessi Bello Perez
Long-standing cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will face a negligence lawsuit after allegedly mismanaging the launch of Bitcoin Cash on its platform, a judge has ruled. However, court documents released on Tuesday show that US District Judge Vince Chhabria th…
Take Apart Your Stuff Before You Give It Away| Nick Douglas
I almost lost my high school diary this weekend. Thankfully my old filing cabinet was so heavy, the Craigslist user taking it away had to pull all the drawers out before she could carry it downstairs. That’s how she noticed the diary, some childhood photos, a…
Bitcoin whale moves $468 million crypto-fortune for less than $400| David Canellis
A cryptocurrency whale has moved a groin-thumping Bitcoin fortune worth $468.5 million — and they paid just a few hundred bucks for the pleasure. 49,756 #BTC (468,491,827 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet Tx:…
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