{"id":2048,"date":"2017-11-09T20:21:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T20:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2018-04-25T19:26:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T19:26:11","slug":"news-segwit2x-halted-crypto-miner-website-hacks-hedge-funds-buy-bitcoin-hypebot-jerkcity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/11\/09\/news-segwit2x-halted-crypto-miner-website-hacks-hedge-funds-buy-bitcoin-hypebot-jerkcity\/","title":{"rendered":"News: SegWit2x halted, crypto miner website hacks, hedge funds buy Bitcoin, Hypebot, JerkCity"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The SegWit2x fork has been <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.linuxfoundation.org\/pipermail\/bitcoin-segwit2x\/2017-November\/000685.html\">called off<\/a> \u2014 evidently they thought they couldn&#8217;t swing it. Of course, a <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.linuxfoundation.org\/pipermail\/bitcoin-segwit2x\/2017-November\/000689.html\">possible troll<\/a> has posted claiming it&#8217;s still on &mdash; &#8220;We are carrying out the fork regardless as everything is set in motion. Backing down the difficulty right now is a strategy. Wonder why 30% network hash-rate disappeared?  It\u2019s ours; the miners that will continue what is set in motion&#8230; A handful of humans cannot stop what they have no control over&#8230;&#8221; SegWit2x futures are <a href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/currencies\/segwit2x\/\">still trading<\/a>, with a price above $0 and a trading volume above $0.\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Website crypto miner operators are <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2017\/11\/drive-by-cryptomining-that-drains-cpus-picks-up-steam-with-aid-of-2500-sites\/\">infecting insecure websites<\/a>. Use an ad blocker, which will block crypto miners. (Firefox on Android can run <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-GB\/android\/addon\/ublock-origin\/\">uBlock Origin<\/a>, by the way.)\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Actual institutional investors found in bitcoin! Specifically, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/06\/technology\/bitcoin-hedge-funds.html\">hedge funds<\/a> desperate for exploitable volatility.\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>My <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/11\/01\/ujo-musics-second-attempt-at-music-on-the-blockchain-ego-by-rac\/\">Ujo Music take two<\/a> post has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypebot.com\/hypebot\/2017\/11\/ujo-attempts-music-on-the-blockchain-a-second-time-with-ego-by-rac.html\">reprinted on Hypebot<\/a>, as has my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypebot.com\/hypebot\/2017\/11\/bj%C3%B6rkcoin-a-look-into-bj%C3%B6rks-cryptocurrency-album-project.html\">Bj\u00f6rkcoin post<\/a>. Go click, Hypebot is good. The Hypebot version of the Bj\u00f6rk story was third hit on Google News UK (logged out) for <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/search\/section\/q\/bjork\/bjork?hl=en&#038;gl=GB&#038;ned=us\">&#8220;bjork&#8221;<\/a> just now.\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/11\/09\/news-segwit2x-halted-crypto-miner-website-hacks-hedge-funds-buy-bitcoin-hypebot-jerkcity\/third-hit-on-bjork-on-google-news\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2100\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/third-hit-on-bjork-on-google-news.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80%\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/third-hit-on-bjork-on-google-news.png 805w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/third-hit-on-bjork-on-google-news-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/third-hit-on-bjork-on-google-news-768x524.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>JerkCity <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerkcity.com\/_jerkcity554.html\">covered cryptocurrency in 2000<\/a>. (Warning: salty language.)\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Some ad spam farm ran my latest <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/11\/08\/the-ethereum-parity-wallet-disaster-play-by-play\/\">Ethereum article<\/a> through a translator both ways. The <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/GX8PI\">result<\/a> is sorta interesting. At least all the links are still mine.\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/bryanfulton\/status\/448928777024712704<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>Bj\u00f6rkcoin is older than you think.<\/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":[21,41,232,6,45],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-bitcoin","tag-hypebot","tag-jerkcity","tag-links","tag-segwit2x"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","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=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}