The Silk Road Investigation: A ‘Pattern of Bad Behavior and Double Agents’
Kathryn Haun, a general partner at U.S. venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, has revealed in recent interviews how she helped take down the Silk Road when she was working for the Attorney General’s office. According to her accounts, the U.S. government agency also asked her to help “start shutting down technology before it’s built.” Haun’s story also highlights how the U.S. government’s...
How Cryptocurrency Developers Can Earn Bitcoin Cash With REST APIs
A recent video by Chris Troutner, Senior Javascript Developer at Bitcoin.com, points out a problem with anti-profit seeking approaches to crypto development, and how devs can incentivize growth and attract business using REST APIs to earn BHC. Without incentives, Troutner notes, many promising services and applications run the risk of succumbing to an economic tragedy of the commons, when user demand surpasses developer ability to...
‘Pirate’ App TeaTV Gets Featured on CNBC, Disappears, But Will Be Back
While ‘pirate’ sites still exist as regular web-based streaming or torrent portals accessible through a browser, recent years have seen a shift. Software applications, or apps as they’re more commonly known, are now seen as a more convenient option. Installable on phones, tablets, and a multitude of set-top devices, they often provide access to huge libraries of instantly-streamable movie and TV shows, presented in a...
Fox & Charter/Spectrum Agree to Clamp Down on Piracy
Once upon a time, telecoms companies, Internet service providers, and content creation companies trod their own path. Increasingly, however, they are becoming more reliant on each other, with the latter using the formers’ distribution capabilities to present and deliver content to the public. As a result, they are forging mutually beneficial business relationships, ones that will hopefully prove profitable for all. On Monday,...
NordVPN Had Private Keys Stolen after Server Breach
VPN service provider NordVPN was the victim of a server breach early last year, the provider has confirmed. The news was made public following a series of tweets from hacker / web developer ‘undefined.’ These were picked up by Ars Technica and TechCrunch, among others. The hack in question targeted a single server at a third-party datacenter. The attacker reportedly compromised the server by exploiting an insecure remote...
