10-Year-Old Block Rewards Wake Up: Data Parsers Catch a String of 1,000 ‘Satoshi Era’ Bitcoins from 2010 Spent Today
On December 27, at around 2 a.m. in the morning (EST), another large string of decade-old sleeping bitcoins was transferred. The miner spent 20 block rewards that were originally mined in 2010, and also spent the corresponding bitcoin cash block rewards as well. The bitcoins moved are worth well over $27 million using today’s exchange rates. **Update: At approximately 3:10 p.m. (EST) at block height 663,241 another 2010 block reward...
Sci-Hub & Libgen Face ISP Blocking in India After Publishers File High Court Complaint
More than thirteen years after the first pirate site was blocked following a court order in Denmark, movie, music and sports companies in dozens of countries have sought similar action. More recently, publishing giants including Elsevier have also sought to protect their rights by targeting Sci-Hub (‘The Pirate Bay of Science’) and Libgen (Library Genesis), platforms that help to distribute scientific and academic papers to the...
EU Study Proposes New ‘Anti-Piracy Act’ to Effectively Tackle Online Piracy
In recent years the European Commission has proposed and adopted various legislative changes to help combat online piracy. This includes the Copyright Directive which passed last year as well as the Digital Services Act, which was officially unveiled last week. New EU Study Piracy of Sports Events These laws aim to help copyright holders enforce their rights. However, according to a new report from the European Parliamentary Research...
Practice programming in C++ by writing a simple game
There are a couple of ways to learn a programming language. If you’re new to coding, you usually learn some basic computer coding concepts and try to apply them. If you already know how to code in another language, you relearn how coding concepts are expressed in the new language. read more Powered by...
Learn Python by coding a simple game
In this series, we’re writing the same application in different programming languages to compare how various languages work and to show how using a standard test program is a great way to learn new ways to program. When you learn a new programming language, it’s good to focus on the things they have in common. Variables, expressions, and statements are the basis of most programming languages. Once you understand these...
