No Internet, No Problem: How to Send Bitcoin by Amateur Radio
In an age where governments are trigger happy at censoring or shutting down networks, it is reassuring to know that Bitcoin can operate sans internet. Network censorship, after all, is not some dystopian storyline but a power exercised by many democratic governments across the world. Thankfully, there are solutions that enable people to send and receive bitcoin even in a worst case scenario. For an advanced technology, it turns...
BCH Devs Lock in Code for the Chain’s Next Upgrade: Schnorr and Segwit Recovery
On Feb. 14, a group of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) developers sat down and discussed the featured items for the scheduled upgrade this coming May. According to the programmers, two specific features will be ready for the upgrade: Schnorr signatures and Segwit recovery. The developers also detailed that certain features like nullfail and the 100-byte transaction size will not be ready for the May hard fork. Also read: Cryptocurrency Can...
Hollywood Uses ‘False Whois’ Domain Suspensions as Anti-Piracy Tool
Besides website blocking, which is gradually spreading all over the world, targeting the domain names of pirate sites is considered to be a somewhat effective anti-piracy tool. For years, copyright holders and local enforcement authorities have reached out to domain registries and registrars, asking these companies to terminate sites for alleged copyright infringements. In addition, Hollywood’s MPAA also struck voluntary...
93 Students At One University Suspended From Web for Pirate Downloads
Downloading and sharing copyrighted content without permission is illegal everywhere in the EU. It doesn’t matter whether users obtain infringing content via BitTorrent sites, web streaming services, or their favorite Kodi addon, doing so is potentially actionable under existing law. A minority of users discover this the hard way (particularly in countries like Germany and Sweden) when they receive a demand for cash from...
Deploy InfluxDB and Grafana on Kubernetes to collect Twitter stats
Kubernetes is the de facto leader in container orchestration on the market, and it is an amazingly configurable and powerful orchestration tool. As with many powerful tools, it can be somewhat confusing at first. read...
