Australian coal-fired power plant to mine Bitcoin: just a penny stock pump — with “corrupt” backers
Like adding “Blockchain” to your name to pump your stock price. Everyone and everything linked to it is inept, crooked or both.
Author: David Gerard
News: UK Parliament Inquiry Friday, Monero and Ethereum vs ASICs, Bitfinex and Poland, Ripple tries to buy XRP onto exchanges
Get your UK Parliamentary submission in without delay!
JavaScript SecureRandom() isn’t securely random — many old web wallets affected — and the bug was warned of five years ago (UPDATED)
If you used a web wallet to generate your keys, check with your author or vendor.
Saifedean Ammous: The Bitcoin Standard — making the Austrian School case for Bitcoin
How Bitcoin fits the theology and virtues of Austrian economics — a plea to Austrian School nocoiners to take Bitcoin seriously.
Oh, eMusic, no — don’t go blockchain! Another Kodak moment
Today’s blockchain post is over on Rocknerd — it’s early dot-com era downloaded music company eMusic taking the final resort of an utterly buggered company.
Debunking ‘But Bitcoin is like the early Internet!’
Of course it isn’t like the Internet. But this claim keeps coming up. Includes technologies Bitcoin and blockchains are actually comparable to.
News: Me at Intelligence Squared, MailChimp bans crypto, ICOs suing over ad bans, Reddit drops Bitcoin, Bitfinex avoids Petro, Sichuan demolishes hydro, bad blockchain laws, Wall Street not so blockchain
Crypto Fools’ Day is, of course, January 9. In cryptocurrency, every day is January 9.
Synthestech offers “cold transmutation” alchemy on the blockchain. Plus UFOs.
Did you know that bacteria can transmute copper, iron and tungsten into platinum and iridium? I certainly didn’t. In fact, I still don’t.
News: Krebs on CoinHive, Ledger hardware hack, regulators vs ICOs, Sierra Leone, RIP Mavrodi, JPMorgan, RokoCoin
And nothing about Twitter blocking crypto ads, because I posted about that last week.
Woolf University: college courses literally on the Ethereum blockchain
Courses will be purchased, and staff paid, in WOOLF tokens. And rather than a costly university administration — boo! hiss! — they’ll have … smart contracts!