Twenty Years Ago, Two Men Predicted Bitcoin
Clinton began his second term as President of the United States. Titanic dominated the box office. Hanson’s “MMMBop” stormed music charts. The year, 1997, also turned out to be when two cranks, fringe thinkers, wrote The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (TSI), published by Simon & Schuster. Catastrophic impresarios James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg wrote a...
Indian Police Forces Break up Gang Preying on Bitcoin Investors
The incredible bitcoin price rally this year has attracted a lot of new people to the cryptocurrency world, many of them just looking to make a quick buck without understanding too much what they are getting into. Naturally this kind of situation attracts criminals that look to exploit it, the most recent example being a gang in India. Also Read: Tax Investigators Raid Bitcoin Exchanges Across India Local Bitcoins Gang The Uttar...
One Week On from the Etherdelta Hack, Funds Are Still Being Stolen
One of the major benefits of decentralized exchanges is that they can’t be hacked – or so the theory went. As Etherdelta’s users found out last week, however, that’s not quite true. After accessing the site’s DNS records and replacing the domain with a sophisticated fake, attackers were able to hoover up hundreds of thousands of dollars in ethereum and tokens. One week on and thefts are still being...
Christmas Surprise: Hive-CM8 Leaks More Pirated DVD Screeners
At the end of the year movie industry insiders traditionally receive their screener copies, which they use to vote on the Oscars and other awards. As is tradition, quite a few of these advance screeners will leak on various pirate sites. In recent years one group has drawn quite a bit of attention, due to both the timing and volume of their releases. Hive-CM8 appear to have good sources and often manage to get their hands on many...
‘Game of Thrones’ Most Torrented TV-Show of 2017
The seventh season of Game of Thrones brought tears and joy to HBO this year. It was the most-viewed season thus far, with record-breaking TV ratings. But on the other hand, the company and its flagship product were plagued by hacks, leaks, and piracy, of course. Game of Thrones’ year ends with a high, or low, depending on one’s perspective. For the sixth year in a row it has the honor of becoming the most-downloaded TV...
