Crypto-Backed Lending Platform Blockfi Approved to Operate in California
Back in July, news.Bitcoin.com reported on the cryptocurrency-backed USD lending platform, Blockfi, which raised $52.5m from investors in an investment round led by Michael Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital. On Monday, Blockfi announced the firm is now servicing residents from California and the latest expansion leads to the crypto-lending service being available in 44 states. Also Read: Novogratz’ Galaxy Digital Leads $52.5...
IP Address is Not Enough to Identify Pirate, US Court of Appeals Rules
Copyright trolling is a messy business with an extremely poor reputation but that hasn’t stopped dozens of companies trying to profit from it. Plenty of cases go the trolls’ way, settled privately for large sums before ever reaching a courtroom. But, every now and again, things go bad for them in an extremely big way. In Oregan during 2016, a case filed by the makers of the Adam Sandler movie The Cobbler against an alleged...
Pirate Bay Suffers Downtime, Tor Domain is Up
The Pirate Bay has been hard to reach since last weekend. For most people, the site currently displays a CloudFlare error message across the entire site, with the CDN provider mentioning that a “bad gateway” is causing the issue. As usual, no further details are available to us and there is no known ETA for the site’s full return. However, judging from past experience, it’s likely a small technical issue that...
New Campaign Aims to “Save Music” Ahead of EU Copyright Filter Vote
In 2016, the European Commission announced plans to modernize EU copyright law, something that was to later develop into a worldwide controversy. A major part of the proposal is Article 13, a text that aims to make online services liable for uploaded content unless they take “effective and proportionate” measures to prevent copyright infringements. The implication is that platforms such as YouTube would be compelled to...
15 command-line aliases to save you time
Linux command-line aliases are great for helping you work more efficiently. Better still, some are included by default in your installed Linux distro. This is an example of a command-line alias in Fedora 27: read...
