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.
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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,
News: Single source of most Ethereum transactions, exchange execs can’t leave China, Tim Swanson, Spoofy at GDAX
And you thought things were quiet right now.
Amazon is accepting Bitcoin!! SPOILER: there is no evidence nor reason for Amazon to accept Bitcoin
The Bitcoin sphere is currently going nuts over the idea that Amazon will start accepting Bitcoin next month! Sure thing! IT’S HAPPENING!