Greta Thunberg Joins Satoshi in Questioning Bank Bailouts
Saving planet Earth is a noble goal with many different dimensions. Climate change needs to be addressed vigorously as our world warms up faster than ever. Economic development needs a higher degree of financial freedom to provide everyone access to opportunities and wealth. A teenager from Scandinavia, dubbed a “next generation leader,” has once again challenged governments and politicians. “If we can save the...
PR: Bitmain Announces Highly Anticipated World Digital Mining Summit
Cryptocurrency mining leaders to speak include: Jihan Wu (Bitmain Co-Founder), John Ge (Matrixport CEO), Marco Streng (Genesis Mining CEO), and more. HONG KONG, JULY, 30 2019 – The World Digital Mining Summit (WDMS) hosted by Bitmain – the world’s top 10 and China’s second largest fabless chipmaker – is set to return on 8-10 October in Frankfurt with a focus towards industry investment and innovation for...
Piracy App ‘CotoMovies’ Shuts Down, Apologizes, and Exposes Users
Last week we reported that the third-party iOS app store TweakBox had removed several movie piracy apps following legal pressure. One of the targeted apps was CotoMovies, a piece of software that provides unlimited access to pirated copies of movies and TV-shows, free of charge. The legal pressure came from the makers of the action movie “Hellboy” and clearly had Tweakbox worried. However, they were not the only ones...
Major US ISPs Refuse to Discuss Repeat Infringer Policies
Every single week, Internet users in the United States take to Reddit and other discussion forums seeking advice about copyright infringement notices. Whether the claims against them are true is often hard to assess, but many speak of receiving notices from their ISP which state that a third-party has caught them torrenting something they shouldn’t – usually movies, TV shows, or music. While any and all of them are able to...
Why the founder of Apache is all-in on blockchain
Brian Behlendorf is perhaps best known for being a co-founder of the Apache Project, which became the Apache Software Foundation. Today, he’s the executive director of the Hyperledger Foundation, an organization focused on enterprise-grade, open source, distributed ledgers (better known as blockchains). He also says he “put the first ad banner online and have been apologizing ever since.” read...
