Crypto Borrowing: Here Are Seven of the Best Interest Rates on the Market
Cryptocurrency is sizing up traditional finance on its legacy turf of lending and borrowing with competitive interest rates (currently as low as 0.44% for ethereum and 4.50% per year for bitcoin) as well as less cumbersome verification procedures. Crypto holders present their virtual assets as collateral to get loans paid out in fiat or stablecoin. The option allows one to keep an immediate financial need separate from long-term...
Alleged SPARKS Member ‘Raid’ Pleads Not Guilty to Piracy Charges
On August 25, unofficial reports began to circulate that something big was underway in the top-tier piracy world known as The Scene. So-called topsites, the servers where masses of copyright-infringing content are stored, began shutting down globally as it became clear that law enforcement action was underway. Within hours, the US Department of Justice announced that three key members of the piracy groups known as SPARKS, GECKOS,...
Stream-Rippers, IPTV and Cryptocurrency Flagged as Growing Piracy Threats
Last week the UK Government’s Intellectual Property Office published its annual IP Crime and Enforcement Report. The report provides an overview of the latest anti-piracy achievements of copyright holders and also signals emerging threats. Like every year, the general consensus is that piracy and counterfeiting remain a problem. However, specifics and priorities change over time. When the first report was published fifteen years...
Manage your SSH connections with this open source tool
OpenSSH is widely used, but there isn’t a well-known connection manager, so I developed the ncurses SSH connection manager (nccm) to fill that significant gap in the process. nccm is a simple SSH connection manager with an ultra-portable terminal interface (written in ncurses, as the project name suggests). And best of all, it’s straightforward to use. With nccm, you can connect to an SSH session of your choice with...
Create a slide deck using Jupyter Notebooks
There are many options when it comes to creating slides for a presentation. There are straightforward ways, and generating slides directly from Jupyter is not one of them. But I was never one to do things the easy way. I also have high expectations that no other slide-generation software quite meets. Why transition from slides to Jupyter? I want four features in my presentation software: read more Powered by...
