{"id":1046,"date":"2017-09-21T19:12:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T19:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2017-09-28T16:21:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T16:21:14","slug":"news-ublock-origin-vs-web-miners-third-bitcoin-split-china-bad-crypto-press-crypto-art-the-dog-ate-my-bitcoins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/09\/21\/news-ublock-origin-vs-web-miners-third-bitcoin-split-china-bad-crypto-press-crypto-art-the-dog-ate-my-bitcoins\/","title":{"rendered":"News: uBlock Origin vs web miners, third Bitcoin split, China, crypto press, crypto art, the dog ate my bitcoins"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Remember how the Pirate Bay <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/09\/18\/news-pirate-bay-website-monero-miner-feds-targeting-darknet-vendors-monero-review-coindesk-on-estcoin\/\">added a Monero miner<\/a> to its search and category pages? uBlock Origin is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.koehntopp.info\/index.php\/2608-bitcoin-instead-of-ads\/\">already detecting and blocking miners in web pages<\/a>. &#8220;So mostly this is a demonstration about how Ads do not work any more. At all. Ever again.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Per my article on <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/09\/03\/the-bitcoin-versus-bitcoin-cash-split-what-it-means-and-what-you-should-do\/\">Bitcoin versus Bitcoin Cash<\/a>, it looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-09-20\/-bitcoin-jesus-ver-sees-the-digital-currency-splitting-again\">a third fork of Bitcoin<\/a> is considered likely, between the miners wanting the 2x part of SegWit2x (double the block size) and the Bitcoin core developers not wanting it. Remember: there will <i>only ever<\/i> be <s>21 million bitcoins,<\/s> er <s>42 million bitcoins,<\/s> er 63 million, I&#8217;ll just come in again shall I.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Of course, a lot of the miners wanting 2x are in <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/09\/16\/china-tethers-and-whats-happened-to-the-bitcoin-price-in-the-past-few-days\/\">China<\/a>. So how are things in China? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trustnodes.com\/2017\/09\/19\/china-bans-bitcoin-executives-leaving-country-miners-preparing-worst\">China Bans Bitcoin Executives From Leaving the Country, Miners \u201cPreparing for the Worst\u201d<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/CuxOX\">archive<\/a>). LocalBitcoins activity has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allenscottoshi\/status\/909672124918493184\">tripled<\/a>. Exchange prices on cryptos have actually gone <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cnLedger\/status\/909714567617421312\">up<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Headline: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitsonline.com\/google-bitcoin-payments-api\/\">GOOGLE ACCEPTS BITCOIN!!<\/a> First sentence: &#8220;It looks like Google has finally jumped on the Bitcoin bandwagon.&#8221; Story: Google Payments API lets you enter arbitrary currency codes, so you could type in the letters &#8220;BTC&#8221; if you liked. The reason I put a whole section (&#8220;But all these companies are using Blockchain now!&#8221;) in <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/table-of-contents\/\">chapter 11<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/book\/\">the book<\/a> on how to critically read Bitcoin media coverage is that it comes from outlets like this.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s an art project that <a href=\"https:\/\/julianoliver.com\/output\/harvest\">uses wind power to mine Zcash to pay for climate research<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Be your own bank! <a href=\"https:\/\/np.reddit.com\/r\/btc\/comments\/71aqip\/urghhhh_most_expensive_puppy_in_the_world\/\">A dog ate a USB stick containing $89,000 in a Bitcoin cold wallet<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1057\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/worlds-most-expensive-puppy-tymal-vincent.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/worlds-most-expensive-puppy-tymal-vincent.jpg 593w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/worlds-most-expensive-puppy-tymal-vincent-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><center><i><small>World&#8217;s Most Expensive Puppy, by Tymal Vincent<\/small><\/i><\/center><\/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>Featuring the World&#8217;s Most Expensive Puppy.<\/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":[100,102,101,6,45,99],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-china","tag-google","tag-julian-oliver","tag-links","tag-segwit2x","tag-ublock-origin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","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=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}