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Bitcoin Weekly 2015 January 21: Coinbase $75m funding round, ChangeTip Facebook support, EgoPay vanishes, GAW Miners SEC investigation
This week saw Coinbase receive the largest funding round in the history of Bitcoin-related startups, which is an amazing thing following investment trends in the Bitcoin industry. And ChangeTip adds Facebook to its stable of social media that people can send/receive bitcoin tips across. In darker news, EgoPay, a bitcoin payment processor, appears to have ...
China super-sizes 3D-printing with world’s first printed apartment building
The utility of 3D printing continues to grow with leaps and bounds and the most recent invention, the world’s first 3D-printed apartment building, is on display now at China’s Suzhou Industrial Park. The building is the pet project of Shanghai-based company WinSun Decoration Design Engineering Co. who have been working hard in the industrial construction ...
Lizard Squad DDoS-for-hire website compromised, stored passwords in plain text
The Lizard Squad, an Internet mayhem group, has recently been caught with their proverbial pants down when an attacker compromised the customer database of the group’s recently released distributed denial of service (DDoS) for hire service. The service, the “Lizard Stresser,” allows paying customers to trigger attacks against websites and networks that can knock them ...
U.K. teen arrested in connection with Christmas Day attacks on Xbox and PlayStaton
The Christmas Day distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that took down Xbox Live and PlayStation Network are beginning to catch up with alleged perpetrators. An 18-year-old man was arrested on Friday in connection with the attacks, U.K. law enforcement agency South East Regional Organized Crime Unit (SEROCU) announced in a series of tweets. An ...
What you missed from Andreas M. Antonopoulos’s Reddit IamAMA on Bitcoin
Andreas M. Antonopoulos, author of “Mastering Bitcoin” and permanent host of the Let’s Talk Bitcoin podcast, did an IamAmA (I am X Ask me Anything) on Reddit. The questions ranged widely and rested heavily Bitcoin as a technology and a cultural phenomenon. Antonopoulos lasted a few hours but soon became exhausted from the dialogue, however ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 January 14: Bitcoin market plummets as value falls below $200
Today’s news cycle is dominated by the market value of Bitcoin falling below $200, along with a smattering of other related news. Notably the trial of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged operator of The Silk Road named the Dread Pirate Roberts has begun. Russia appears to be on the verge of banning cryptocurrency starting with an ...
Lizard Squad and the DDoS-for-hire ecology explained by NexusGuard
Recently, Internet mayhem group Lizard Squad made news by ruining Christmas Day for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network users. Afterwards the group unveiled a distributed denial of service (DDoS) tool offered to the public that allows people to use the DDoS infrastructure to boot companies offline for a few seconds to a hours in exchange ...
Minecraft saw 1.4 million concurrent users on Saturday
The ever-growing phenomena of Minecraft continues to dominate its own niche of the industry and has already well solidified itself as a cultural touchstone. Even Microsoft Corporation’s purchase of Mojang AB, the Swedish development studio of the block-centric sandbox game, has not slowed this cultural juggernaut. Polygon reports that Saturday Minecraft developer Nathan Adams, aka Dinnerbone, ...
Bitcoin Yearly 2014: A retrospective monthly look back at bitcoin (Part 2: Jul – Dec)
This is the second part of the Bitcoin Yearly retrospective. Below is a month-by-month highlight of adoption events, hacks, and big news as seen by the Bitcoin community. This post is split into two parts, this is Bitcoin Yearly July through December 2014, go back and read for January through June. The second half of 2014 saw ...
Bitcoin Yearly 2014: A retrospective monthly look back at bitcoin (Part 1: Jan – Jun)
The year 2014 has been long on Bitcoin news. For the most part it has been good, the industry has grown by leaps and bounds as more investment pours into Bitcoin projects, merchants from Dell to Microsoft have accepted bitcoins for services, and even PayPal partnered its way in. It has not been all rainbows ...