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A tiny island off the coast of Portugal just became the first country with Bitcoin as its official currency
Pontinha, a tiny micronation island off the coast of Portugal, just became the first country in the world to officially adopt Bitcoin as its national currency. Prime Minister Joby Weeks announced Bitcoin as the nation’s official money earlier this week as the nation also works toward renaming itself “Atlantis” after the mythical lost island civilization. ...
MIT researchers develop Vuvuzela privacy network to guarantee untraceable communication
Researchers at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a prototype privacy network to rival Tor, an anonymizing network that uses special routing to protect privacy, and named it after one of the most annoying musical instruments in the world. Vuvuzela is a private communication network in a similar category to ...
Unknown attackers strike DNS root name servers with massive DDoS
On November 30 and December 1, 2015 unknown attackers unleashed two massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against many of the 13 DNS root name servers in what looked like an attempt to knock them offline. The reasons for this attack and the perpetrators are both still a mystery, as reported by International Business ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 December 9: Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto? At least Wired and Gizmodo think so
This week has seen a great deal going on in the Bitcoin community; however, what’s really dominating the news is yesterday’s investigative revelations by Wired and Gizmodo that out Craig Steven Wright as potentially (in part) Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin. The Bitcoin community has been rife with speculation and thoughts about the evidence presented and ...
Speedtest.net now allows users to check their Internet speeds using HTML5
For the detail-oriented Internet user, Speedtest.net has been the go-to for trying to determine if the service the ISP says you’re getting is what you’re getting has been a mainstay. For a long time now, the site has used Adobe Flash to accomplish that test, but the times they are a changing: now it’s possible ...
21 Bitcoin Computer Mechanical Turk concept previewed by Jeff Garzik
Jeff Garzik, Bitcoin core developer and luminary, just released a preview for a proof-of-concept “Mechanical Turk” using the 21 Bitcoin Computer and its discovery marketplace. The idea behind a Mechanical Turk system is to have small jobs offered that can be done by automating crowdsourcing the delivery of work and payment for work. When 21 ...
Apple officially open sources the Swift programming language compiler and tools
Earlier this year, Apple, Inc. promised to make its Swift programming language open source, and now that promise has come to fruition. Today, Apple released the first version of the Swift compiler and tools as open source, which means that interested developers can compile the compiler themselves (and look at its underlying code). The announcement ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 December 2: GAW Miners, ZenMiner and Josh Garza face SEC charges, G+ Bitcoin Community 3 years old, LibertyX BTC for cash and more
Last week had Black Friday hit the retail industry and Bitcoin Black Friday also came and went — but not without a little bit of a scandal, as it turns out the newly minted BitcoinBlackFriday.info website (not to be mistaken for BitcoinBlackFriday.com) was a scam. Keep reading for the follow-up on that now-unveiled con job. ...
Popcorn Time still under development in wake of recent troubles
Although suffering setbacks and developer woes (both legal and personal) movie and media pirate streamer software Popcorn Time appears to be on the path to resurrection. According to an article in Tech Times that cites a currently updating Reddit thread about the full relaunch of the product. The easy-to-use peer-to-peer pirate streaming software has proven ...
Fraud Alert: BitcoinBlackFriday.info comes on online aaaand it’s a scam
Last week an up and coming competitor to Jon Holmquist’s yearly BitcoinBlackFriday.com website appeared with the website BitcoinBlackFriday.info. The website looked slick, filled with information, animations, and a newsletter signup. The owner even sent out a press release earlier in Novemember so the site started getting picked up by news organizations (even SiliconANGLE). Although people ...