My first WordPress extension: a nice Patreon button at the end of each post
Since I did it by cargo-culted copy’n’paste’n’bodge, I’ll probably get pwn3d in an hour. But in the meantime, I have a nice Patreon badge.
Author: David Gerard
ICO of the day: CryoGen — bringing crypto and cryonics back together once more
The main problem with this is that cryonics not only doesn’t work, there’s a ton of reason it can’t work. But KrioRus aren’t letting that stop them.
Correction: Huobi wasn’t hacked in 2015, but the 2015 Bitstamp hacker did withdraw 12,000 BTC from Huobi
Correction to yesterday’s post: Bitstamp was hacked, Huobi say they weren’t.
News: Zimbabwe, why invest in Bitcoin, post-apocalyptic Bitcoin, how to get security researchers’ attention
It’s not all Tether hacks!
News roundup: Tether hacked, 31 million USDT taken
Well, that was something to wake up to. The same hacker may have hit Bitstamp in 2015 as well.
There can only ever be 21 million forks of Bitcoin: a survey so far
Bitcoin is strictly limited, just like gold! If you could create new gold mines out of nothing by cut’n’paste.
Subscribe to my blockchain news blog at Patreon: $5/month for early access
Support my work here, get an early heads-up on what I’m working on. “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations,” as Orwell probably didn’t say.
News: Parity bug known since August, ancaps vs actualcaps, BitBounce, MtGox 2.0, Zimbabwe, Tethers
And remember: Mark did nothing wrong.
Unbubbled: Jamie King and Sarah Henry, with David Gerard and Emin Gün Sirer
A show with bits from me and Emin Gün Sirer, talking about the present and possible futures for Bitcoin. Plus: the process of recording my bit.
Bail Bloc: The New Inquiry recommends you steal electricity to run Bail Bloc
Really: The New Inquiry is literally recommending you commit electricity theft to fund their wizard wheeze.