{"id":3820,"date":"2018-01-05T00:18:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T00:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=3820"},"modified":"2018-05-05T11:28:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T11:28:32","slug":"news-nicehash-pay-out-smart-contracts-australian-banks-coinbase-vs-ripple-meltdown-vs-cryptos-dungeon-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2018\/01\/05\/news-nicehash-pay-out-smart-contracts-australian-banks-coinbase-vs-ripple-meltdown-vs-cryptos-dungeon-world\/","title":{"rendered":"News: NiceHash pay out, smart contracts, Australian banks, Coinbase vs Ripple, Meltdown vs cryptos, Dungeon World"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I have a report (no link, sorry) that NiceHash actually paid out to a home crypto miner! This was using the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicehash.com\/news\/229\">Direct-to-Coinbase<\/a> option, the miner then transferred it to GDAX (Coinbase&#8217;s trading platform) no problem. So that&#8217;s good! Though they&#8217;ve now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicehash.com\/news\/231\">added a fee<\/a> to transfer to the NiceHash wallet. Just don&#8217;t have a <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/12\/11\/bitcoin-mining-accidents-2017-updated-version-with-photos\/\">NiceHash mining accident<\/a> &#8230;\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@yorso\/%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B4%D0%B0-%D0%BE-%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9-%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B8-%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2-89d3af74c05a\">Why smart contracts are idiotic garbage<\/a>. In Russian, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/translate.googleusercontent.com\/translate_c?depth=1&amp;hl=en&amp;rurl=translate.google.com&amp;sl=auto&amp;sp=nmt4&amp;tl=en&amp;u=https:\/\/medium.com\/%40yorso\/%25D0%25B3%25D0%25BE%25D1%2580%25D1%258C%25D0%25BA%25D0%25B0%25D1%258F-%25D0%25BF%25D1%2580%25D0%25B0%25D0%25B2%25D0%25B4%25D0%25B0-%25D0%25BE-%25D0%25BB%25D0%25B8%25D1%2587%25D0%25BD%25D0%25BE%25D0%25B9-%25D0%25B6%25D0%25B8%25D0%25B7%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B8-%25D1%2581%25D0%25BC%25D0%25B0%25D1%2580%25D1%2582-%25D0%25BA%25D0%25BE%25D0%25BD%25D1%2582%25D1%2580%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BA%25D1%2582%25D0%25BE%25D0%25B2-89d3af74c05a&amp;usg=ALkJrhhan8VOC0IwSg3Y2D1jBByVrNb2Ng\">Google Translate version in English<\/a> gets its point across well.\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The &#8220;Why you can&#8217;t cash out&#8221; series was quoted at length by Frank Chung of news.com.au (and reprinted in various Murdoch papers in Australia), talking about Australian bitcoiners <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/finance\/money\/investing\/coinspot-rubbishes-liquidity-claims-says-it-is-getting-closer-to-turning-on-australian-dollar-deposits\/news-story\/ac5de7b98696121adace52b3157b8ca7\">having trouble with their banks<\/a>. I must note that if &#8220;Bitcoin Babe&#8221; has actually been <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BitcoinBabeAU\/status\/946370847903596544\">rejected by thirty different banks<\/a>, the problem might not be with the <em>banks<\/em>.\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.coinbase.com\/our-process-for-adding-new-assets-f97b7ba65bea\">This Coinbase announcement<\/a> about how and when they add new coins is actually about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-01-04\/ripple-slides-after-coinbase-says-not-adding-new-crypto-coins\">rumours that they were adding Ripple<\/a>, sorry XRP.\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The whole world of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/01\/02\/intel_cpu_design_flaw\/\">computer security<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/01\/04\/intel_meltdown_spectre_bugs_the_registers_annotations\/\">on fire<\/a>. As a sysadmin by day, I can assure you that YES, EVERYTHING IS HORRIFYINGLY BROKEN, and we&#8217;re panicking with <em>excellent reason<\/em>. (The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kb.cert.org\/vuls\/id\/584653\">official solution from CERT<\/a> is &#8220;get a new computer that isn&#8217;t broken garbage.&#8221;) And stuff running on AWS and so forth \u2014 which is <em>lots<\/em> of stuff \u2014 is <em>particularly<\/em> affected. This doesn&#8217;t affect crypto directly, but it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peterktodd\/status\/948707811244101632\">sure does tangentially<\/a>:<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yes, I know of multiple cases where Bitcoin exchanges and similar businesses keep private keys in the cloud, or for other reasons, are as equally vulnerable as if they did that.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, an Amazon hacker could take everything in some of these services.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this is irresponsible. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uvQ4x8l681\">https:\/\/t.co\/uvQ4x8l681<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Peter Todd (@peterktodd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peterktodd\/status\/948707811244101632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tabletop role-playing adventure game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burningwheel.com\/store\/index.php\/dungeon-world-print-pdf.html\">Dungeon World<\/a> now has a <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+Dungeonworldrpg\/posts\/CKFensKugeb\">blockchain<\/a>:<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2018\/01\/05\/news-nicehash-pay-out-smart-contracts-australian-banks-coinbase-vs-ripple-meltdown-vs-cryptos-dungeon-world\/dungeon-world-blockchain\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3828\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3828\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/dungeon-world-blockchain.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/dungeon-world-blockchain.png 530w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/dungeon-world-blockchain-232x300.png 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rationalwiki.org\/w\/index.php?title=Bitcoin&amp;oldid=819359\">Me on Bitcoin, 2011<\/a>: &#8220;its main function is as a pump-and-dump scheme wherein early adopters \u2014 who have more bitcoins than anyone else ever will\u00a0\u2014 hype it up so they can offload their bitcoins onto fools who think they&#8217;ll strike it rich as speculators.&#8221; Good thing it&#8217;s <em>completely<\/em> different now.<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=16073298\">It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his HODLing depends upon his not understanding it<\/a>. I should know better by now.\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Eating a burger is now a way to mine for cryptocoins,&quot; he said, accidentally invoking the codephrase that ends our simulation<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Foltzer (@acfoltzer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acfoltzer\/status\/948614461593608192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Unfortunately the horrible Charlie Brooker future we\u2019re living in is Nathan Barley not Black Mirror<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; pixelatedboat aka \u201cmr tweets\u201d (@pixelatedboat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pixelatedboat\/status\/948147354523152384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/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>&#8220;Unfortunately the horrible Charlie Brooker future we\u2019re living in is Nathan Barley not Black Mirror.&#8221;<\/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":[138,288,341,342,6,40,338,83,339],"class_list":["post-3820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-australia","tag-coinbase","tag-dungeon-world","tag-hacker-news","tag-links","tag-nicehash","tag-ripple","tag-smart-contract","tag-xrp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820","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=3820"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6887,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions\/6887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}