{"id":1387,"date":"2017-10-12T16:28:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T16:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2017-10-12T16:28:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T16:28:58","slug":"news-pirate-bay-mining-again-crypto-humble-bundle-uses-of-bitcoin-front-running-bancor-wright-writes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/10\/12\/news-pirate-bay-mining-again-crypto-humble-bundle-uses-of-bitcoin-front-running-bancor-wright-writes\/","title":{"rendered":"News: Pirate Bay mining again, crypto Humble Bundle, uses of Bitcoin, front-running Bancor, Wright writes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The Pirate Bay is <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/pirate-bay-is-mining-cryptocurrency-again-no-opt-out-171011\/\">running a Monero mining script again<\/a>, with no opt-out. (Most ad blockers catch it.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Bitcoin payments have been disabled for the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.humblebundle.com\/post\/166223711639\/the-humble-book-bundle-bitcoin-blockchain\">Humble Book Bundle: Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency<\/a>.&#8221; (They have since <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/humble\/status\/917497800685789184\">enabled them<\/a>.) You would probably believe how many people have asked why <em>Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain<\/em> isn&#8217;t included &#8230; if they&#8217;d just asked!\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bitcoin-humble-bundle-not-taking-bitcoin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2010\" height=\"70\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bitcoin-humble-bundle-not-taking-bitcoin.png 2010w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bitcoin-humble-bundle-not-taking-bitcoin-300x10.png 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bitcoin-humble-bundle-not-taking-bitcoin-768x27.png 768w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bitcoin-humble-bundle-not-taking-bitcoin-1024x36.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2010px) 100vw, 2010px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Sadly, many apparent escape hatches turn out to be routes into another fraudulent system.&#8221; Sarah Hurst: <a href=\"https:\/\/lifedisrupteddotblog.wordpress.com\/2017\/09\/17\/bitcoin-is-for-gamblers-not-shoppers\/\">Bitcoin is for gamblers, not shoppers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IvanBogatyy\/status\/917768936074117120\">Ivan Bogatyy<\/a>: &#8220;Published our <a href=\"https:\/\/hackernoon.com\/front-running-bancor-in-150-lines-of-python-with-ethereum-api-d5e2bfd0d798\">research<\/a> w @hosseeb showing any user can front-run Bancor (Ethereum token) in 150 lines of Python code&#8221;. Bancor is an ICO that I mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/icos-magic-beans-and-bubble-machines\/\">in the book<\/a>.<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Craig Wright&#8217;s been putting his <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2993791\">poetic writing<\/a> up on SSRN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There will keep being pointless hard fork spinoffs until they stop making money for holders<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bram Cohen (@bramcohen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bramcohen\/status\/917828859822772225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/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>No, <i>Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain<\/i> isn&#8217;t in the crypto Humble Bundle.<\/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":[147,146,144,9,148,96,145,93],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-bancor","tag-craig-wright","tag-humble-bundle","tag-ico","tag-ivan-bogatyy","tag-monero","tag-sarah-hurst","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\/1387","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=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}