{"id":1027,"date":"2017-09-18T13:36:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T13:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2018-04-25T12:05:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T12:05:52","slug":"news-pirate-bay-website-monero-miner-feds-targeting-darknet-vendors-monero-review-coindesk-on-estcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/09\/18\/news-pirate-bay-website-monero-miner-feds-targeting-darknet-vendors-monero-review-coindesk-on-estcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"News: Pirate Bay website Monero miner, Feds targeting darknet vendors, Monero review, CoinDesk on Estcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I am shocked, <em>shocked<\/em> to find out that perpetrators of massive copyright violation would be so <i>unethical<\/i> that <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/the-pirate-bay-website-runs-a-cryptocurrency-miner-170916\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Pirate Bay would put a Monero miner in its search and category pages<\/a>. Apparently it&#8217;s a substitute for advertising. (Apparently there are <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/gorhill\/uBlock\">ads<\/a> on the internet.) Someone has of course responded with a miner blocker, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/keraf\/NoCoin\">NoCoin<\/a>. (See also <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=15270799\">Hacker News discussion.<\/a>)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Exercising your prosecution futures: the authorities are now going for not just the darknet markets, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/09\/feds-in-california-are-aggressively-going-after-silk-road-alphabay-vendors\/\">vendors<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Andreas Brekken <a href=\"https:\/\/shitcoin.com\/monero-private-and-difficult-to-use-8f9a4b73b409\">reviews Monero<\/a>, from source code to actually buying something with it. (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170918100136\/https:\/\/shitcoin.com\/monero-private-and-difficult-to-use-8f9a4b73b409?gi=e3738debb9f0\">archive<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/FM4RX\">archive<\/a>)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>I got quoted by CoinDesk in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/estonia-wants-ico-currency-law-deal-breaker\/\">an article on the Estcoin proposal<\/a> (which I covered at length <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/09\/07\/e-estonias-estcoin-proposal-shot-down-by-ecb-saying-blockchain-doesnt-let-you-do-a-parallel-currency\/\">previously<\/a>).&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Another soul <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tommorris\/status\/909487507917721605\">attains enlightenment<\/a>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cryptocurrency is a race between fraud and incompetence. The only winner is comedy.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Morris  \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@tommorris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tommorris\/status\/909487507917721605?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;A colleague of my parents had a catchphrase which went \u2018and how will this look before the subsequent Inquiry?\u2019 which I bear in mind most days.&#8221; \u2014 Drew Robertson<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And another soul attains enlightenment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,98,95,28,96,94,93],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-andreas-brekken","tag-coindesk","tag-darknet","tag-estcoin","tag-monero","tag-nocoin","tag-the-pirate-bay"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6605,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/6605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}