Bitpay Announces Stablecoin Support for Merchant Settlement
On Monday the cryptocurrency payment processor Bitpay announced the company is now supporting settlement options using two stablecoins — the Gemini dollar and the Circle Centre coin. Not only can Bitpay merchants settle in BCH, BTC, and local fiat currencies, but they can also utilize a US dollar-equivalent digital currency. Also read: BCH Devcon Streamlines Bitcoin Innovation in San Francisco Bitpay Now Supports Settlement...
Court Orders Swedish ISP Telia to Block The Pirate Bay & FMovies
In an effort to reduce levels of copyright infringement, content companies and distributors have adopted site-blocking as one of their preferred anti-piracy tools. The practice is now commonplace across Europe, with many of the main torrent and streaming portals blocked by local ISPs. In Sweden, ‘pirate’ site blocking became a reality in February 2017 when ISP Bredbandsbolaget (Broadband Company) was ordered to block The...
GTA ‘Cheat’ Developers Have Homes Searched and Assets Frozen
Over the past year there has been a wave of copyright infringement lawsuits against alleged cheaters or cheat makers. More than a handful have been filed in the US, but there’s also been some action in Australia recently. In one case, filed last month, GTA V developer Rockstar Games and its parent company Take-Two Interactive are going after several people believed to be linked to the popular “Infamous” cheat. This...
Japan Plans to Criminalize Pirate Link Sites, Up to Five Years in Jail for Operators
For the past several months, authorities in Japan have been grappling with the thorny issue of online piracy. The country has attempted to deal with the issue previously but there now appears to be greater momentum. Back in September an advisory panel for the Agency for Cultural Affairs recommended that ‘pirate’ indexing sites (known locally as ‘leech’ sites) should be outlawed. These platforms host no...
Manage your OpenStack cloud with Ansible: Day two operations
Managing an application on OpenStack presents a host of challenges for the system administrator, and finding ways to reduce complexity and produce consistency are key ingredients to achieving success. By using Ansible, an agentless IT automation technology, a system administrator can create Ansible playbooks that provide consistency and reduce complexity. read...
