{"id":1551,"date":"2017-10-19T23:08:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T23:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2018-04-25T18:18:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T18:18:33","slug":"news-pegged-cryptos-bittrex-bitcoin-uses-56-of-an-ireland-suing-satoshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/10\/19\/news-pegged-cryptos-bittrex-bitcoin-uses-56-of-an-ireland-suing-satoshi\/","title":{"rendered":"News: pegged cryptos, Bittrex, Bitcoin uses 5\/6 of an Ireland, mattress journalism, suing Satoshi"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prestonjbyrne\/status\/920491283306745856\">Preston Byrne<\/a>: &#8220;What happens to cryptocoin pegs to USD? Travel with me to 2014 in my marmot time machine, and <a href=\"https:\/\/prestonbyrne.com\/2014\/08\/28\/well-ill-be-darned\/amp\/\">find out<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The traditional sucker partners that Bittrex needs to work with are <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bitcoin-altcoin-exchange-bittrex-eyed-with-suspicion-due-to-thousands-of-mysterious-account-closings\">not able to keep up with<\/a> the demands of the growing SFYL economy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Mikko Hypponen estimates the power usage of Bitcoin at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikko\/status\/920643622973988864\">21 terawatt-hours a year<\/a>. That&#8217;s a bit over five-sixths of an Ireland in Bitcoin standard measures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I am going to <a href=\"https:\/\/coinreport.net\/bitcoin-fraud-unfair-competition-class-action-lawsuit-filed\/\">SUE SATOSHI in BITCOIN COURT!!<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/OeYd4\">archive<\/a>) Craig Wright was not available for comment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If you ever thought Bitcoin journalism was a bit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3065928\/sleepopolis-casper-bloggers-lawsuits-underside-of-the-mattress-wars\">close-knit with its subject<\/a> &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The book is still cheap in Canada: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/dp\/B073CPP581\/\">CDN$3.20 on Kindle<\/a>. Tell everyone you know! Buy a copy! Buy several copies! The paperback is really nice too!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 <i>Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain<\/i> is still $3.20 on Kindle Canada!<\/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":[12,21,168,6,169,36,170],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain","tag-bitcoin","tag-bittrex","tag-links","tag-mikko-hypponen","tag-preston-byrne","tag-satoshi-nakamoto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","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=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1556,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}