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US Takes Down $25 Million Bitcoin ATM Operation, Seizes 17 Machines
23.7.2020
The U.S. government has taken down a $25 million bitcoin ATM operation and seized 17 machines along with some cryptocurrencies. The Department of Justice says the man behind this unlicensed bitcoin ATM operation has agreed to plead guilty and is facing up to 30 years in prison. US Dismantles...
Prime Factor Capital Is Shutting Down: Lack of Capital Cited as Prime Factor
23.7.2020
Prime Factor Capital is shutting, down
5 Most Common Developer Portfolio Mistakes (Sponsored)
20.7.2020
A portfolio site is one of the best marketing and sales tools you as a web developer have in your arsenal. And if it’s set up right, it’ll save you a bunch of time having to:  Chase down new clients,  Spend time convincing them to work with you, Answer questions about your experience as...
Grayscale CEO: US Regulators Can’t Shut Down Bitcoin
20.7.2020
Grayscale CEO Barry Silbert believes the United States is past the point where regulators have the support to ban crypto assets like Bitcoin
Cointelegraph Cracks Down on Staff Imposters, Investigation on the Way
18.7.2020
Cointelegraph cracks down on impersonators claiming to be staff as part of an ongoing investigation with Coinfirm
Tradeoffs and Shifting Complexity
16.7.2020
This is a masterclass from Dave:
After you hit the wall of unremovable complexity, any “advances” are a shell game, making tradeoffs that get passed down to the user … you get “advances” by shifting where the complexity lives.
You don’t get free reductions in complexity. In CSS land...
BitMEX's Parent Goes '100x,' Doubles Down On Exchange's Growth
15.7.2020
Arthur Hayes. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, CfC st. Moritz
HDR Global Trading, the operator of major crypto derivatives platform BitMEX, is creating a new holding company structure, branded 100x, "to pursue a broader vision to reshape the modern digital financial system,"...
Chinese Authorities Confiscate $15 Million in Cryptocurrencies, Arrest 10 Scammers
11.7.2020
Chinese authorities have seized cryptocurrencies worth about $15 million while bringing down a scam involving fake Huobi tokens. In addition, ten people were arrested while luxury cars and real estate were confiscated. The police in the Chinese city of Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, have cracked...
Crypto Tracer Chainalysis Raises $13M as It ‘Doubles Down’ on Government Ties
7.7.2020
Chainalysis is also adding former Treasury Department official Sigal Mandelker on as an advisor
Telegram Will Shut Down the TON Testnet by August 2020
7.7.2020
Users will need to install their own testnet validators to continue using the network
Encryption Crackdown: Private Phone Network With 60,000 Users Dismantled by Law Enforcement
6.7.2020
An international law enforcement team has brought down an encrypted phone network with 60,000 users worldwide. The platform was one of the largest providers of encrypted communications, widely used by organized crime groups. UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), Europol, Eurojust, and several...
Settling down in a Jamstack world
3.7.2020
One of the things I like about Jamstack is that it’s just a philosophy. It’s not particularly prescriptive about how you go about it. To me, the only real requirement is that it’s based on static (CDN-backed) hosting. You can use whatever tooling you like. Those tools, though...
Multibillion Investor Doubles Down on Bitcoin Mining
3.7.2020
US-based multibillion investment manager Horizon Kinetics (HK) just doubled down on its Bitcoin (BTC) mining strategy.
After tripling the number of miners it hosts with Core Scientific (CS), a US-based blockchain hosting provider, HK has now agreed to upgrade the miners to the Antminer S19 and...
Mining Company Ebang’s Stock Listed on Nasdaq Down 11%, Firm Plans to Launch Offshore Exchange
3.7.2020
The bitcoin ASIC mining rig manufacturer, Ebang International Holdings, was recently listed on Nasdaq last Friday on June 26. Ebang is now the second mining rig manufacturer to have a U.S. initial public offering (IPO) by selling company shares. Since the initial sale on opening day, Ebang’s...
Authorities Take Down Biggest Criminal Chat Network Yet
2.7.2020
Authorities across Europe take down an organized crime syndicate that used an encrypted chat network to coordinate their illicit activities
When a Line Doesn’t Break
2.7.2020
We expect a line to break when the text on that line reaches the parent box boundaries. We see this every time we create a paragraph, just like this one. When the parent box doesn’t have enough room for the next word in a line, it breaks it and moves down to the next line and repeats that...
$11 Trillion Offshore Assets Uncovered After 100 Countries Share Information on 84 Million Bank Accounts
2.7.2020
Governments in nearly 100 countries have been sharing offshore bank account information in an effort to crack down on tax evasion. Their “Automatic exchange of information” has led to uncovering 10 trillion euros ($11 trillion) in offshore assets in 84 million bank accounts....
UK Court Orders Crypto Exchange to Shut Down After Clients Lose $2M
1.7.2020
The U.K. is ordering GPay to shut down on allegations that 108 clients lost £1.5 million or $2 million through the crypto exchange
New in Chrome: CSS Overview
1.7.2020
Here’s a fancy new experimental feature in Chrome! Now, we can get an overview of the CSS used on a site, from how many colors there are to the number of unused declarations… even down to the total number of defined media queries.
Again, this is an experimental feature. Not only does that...
Allegedly Fraudulent Crypto Exchange Shut Down by UK High Court
1.7.2020
The UK Insolvency Service claimed that GPay is nothing but a “scam” after conducting confidential inquiries