GDAX Exchange Sees Colossal ETH Flash Crash, Angered Traders Mount Lawsuit
Details have surfaced of a violent flash crash on Global Digital Asset Exchange’s (GDAX) ETH markets today, with Ethereum tokens being sold for prices as low as $0.10. Amidst a dramatic uproar from angered traders, some are attempting to mount a class action lawsuit against the company. Also Read: Australian Financial Authorities Look Into Ethereum’s Conflicts of Interest Reports Surfaced of Traders Losing Extreme Amounts...
Sci-Hub Ordered to Pay $15 Million in Piracy Damages
Two years ago, academic publisher Elsevier filed a complaint against Sci-Hub and several related “pirate” sites. It accused the websites of making academic papers widely available to the public, without permission. While Sci-Hub is nothing like the average pirate site, it is just as illegal according to Elsevier’s legal team, who obtained a preliminary injunction from a New York District Court last fall. The...
Kim Dotcom Opposes US’s “Fugitive” Claims at Supreme Court
When Megaupload and Kim Dotcom were raided five years ago, the authorities seized millions of dollars in cash and other property. The US government claimed the assets were obtained through copyright crimes so went after the bank accounts, cars, and other seized possessions of the Megaupload defendants. Kim Dotcom and his colleagues were branded as “fugitives” and the Government won its case. Dotcom’s legal team...
3 mistakes to avoid when learning to code in Python
It’s never easy to admit when you do things wrong, but making errors is part of any learning process, from learning to walk to learning a new programming language, such as Python. Here’s a list of three things I got wrong when I was learning Python, presented so that newer Python programmers can avoid making the same mistakes. These are errors that either I got away with for a long time or that that created big problems...
A introduction to creating documents in LaTeX
LaTeX (pronounced lay-tech) is a method of creating documents using plain text, stylized using markup tags, similar to HTML/CSS or Markdown. LaTeX is most commonly used to create documents for academia, such as academic journals. In LaTeX, the author doesn’t stylize the document directly, like in a word processor such as Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer, or Apple Pages; instead they write code in plain text that must be...
