eBTC: not “Bitcoin on Ethereum,” just an ERC-20 token with a related name
But there’s 21 million of them, and the creator uses the name “Satoshi21”!
Author: David Gerard
News: Garza/GAW fine; Russia vs Bitcoin; ICOs in Australia; Tether non-audit; FaunaDB
And blockchain use in the Catalan independence referendum.
Bitcoin Gold, a new Bitcoin full-history fork on the GPU; SegWit2x; Bitcoin core claims “Bitcoin” and “BTC” names
Yet another Bitcoin fork. And Bitcoin core considers striking back, particularly against SegWit2x.
News: Oracle Blockchain, Cloudflare bans website miners, securing bitcoins, IBM Watson hype, Bitcoin paleo diet
“By 2050, bitcoin users will undiscover fire.”
Book news: Atlas Pulse TV video with Charlie Morris, the book is cheap on Kindle Canada today!
A nice video piece, and a cheap ebook in Canada.
Book news: happy author, happy readers, “50 Foot Blockchain” photos
1634 copies sold. I got paid!
News: ICOpocalypse! SEC, Switzerland, South Korea
And some bloke with a megaphone standing across the street from the Bloomberg office in London, ranting about Bitcoin.
The EtherDelta hack: malicious JavaScript in a contract name, stealing the user’s private key
Plus a review of the EtherDelta smart contract’s coding and security. Summary: it’s pretty bad.
Darknet market hazard: blackmailed by the dealer you gave your address
Kyle Torpey notes the obvious hazard of giving your postal address to criminals so they can sell you drugs.
News: SEC targets cryptos, CBS site mines Monero, slapdash crypto “hedge funds,” Singapore pulls bank accounts
This is actually good news for Bitcoin, because,