‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Jordan Belfort Expects Bitcoin and Ethereum to Be ‘Substantially Higher’ Despite FTX Collapse
Dec09

‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Jordan Belfort Expects Bitcoin and Ethereum to Be ‘Substantially Higher’ Despite FTX Collapse

Jordan Belfort, aka the Wolf of Wall Street, expects bitcoin and ethereum to be “a lot higher” than they are now. Noting that the collapsed crypto exchange FTX is a scam, he stressed that its implosion “doesn’t mean that you can disregard bitcoin completely and say it’s worthless or going to zero.” The Wolf of Wall Street Calls FTX a Scam Jordan Belfort, a former stockbroker whose memoir was adapted into a film called “The Wolf of...

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FTX-Hosted NFTs Point to Broken Metadata, Issue Illuminates Flaws With NFTs Tied to Centralized Clouds
Dec09

FTX-Hosted NFTs Point to Broken Metadata, Issue Illuminates Flaws With NFTs Tied to Centralized Clouds

On Wednesday, non-fungible token (NFT) supporters discovered that NFT metadata hosted on the platform FTX US points to broken metadata, and the links now point to FTX’s restructuring website. Specific collections that were minted on the Solana blockchain via the FTX US NFT platform do not show the NFT’s imagery and marketplace listings on the Coachella NFT marketplace have disappeared. FTX US-Hosted NFTs Redirect Metadata to FTX’s...

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EU Adds Mega, FMovies and DDoS-Guard to “Piracy Watchlist”
Dec09

EU Adds Mega, FMovies and DDoS-Guard to “Piracy Watchlist”

Following the example of the United States, the EU began publishing its very own piracy watchlist a few years ago. The ‘Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List’ is compiled by the European Commission. As in the US, it relies on stakeholder groups to nominate several problematic sites and services for inclusion. The third iteration of the EU watchlist, published a few days ago, provides an overview of some of the most problematic sites and...

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Install open source solar power at home
Dec09

Install open source solar power at home

Install open source solar power at home Joshua Pearce Fri, 12/09/2022 – 03:00 You might have already given some thought to powering your home with solar. Solar photovoltaic panels, which convert sunlight directly into electricity, have fallen so far down in cost that it makes economic sense everywhere. That is why large companies have put in a lot of solar, and even the electric utilities have started installing massive solar...

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A Linux file manager for Emacs fans
Dec09

A Linux file manager for Emacs fans

A Linux file manager for Emacs fans Seth Kenlon Fri, 12/09/2022 – 03:00 In 2009, I was working hard at a startup in Pittsburgh, and in the late evenings of coding, I developed a GNU Emacs habit. The thing about Emacs is that it’s just too versatile to close. Whether you’re writing code, writing articles about open source, jotting down a task list, or even playing music, you can do it all from within Emacs. And every...

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