Bitcoin for Spain’s Congress: BTC Sent to 350 Spanish Parliament Members
Bitcoin has been sent to 350 deputies of the Spanish Congress as part of an educational initiative similar to the “Crypto for Congress” campaign that sent bitcoin to all Members of U.S. Congress. Bitcoin Sent to 350 Spanish Lawmakers All 350 members of Spain’s Congress of Deputies have been sent bitcoin worth a euro each as part of an educational campaign, local newspaper ABC reported Thursday. The Congress of Deputies is the lower...
6 Stimulus Packages Have Been Proposed to Provide Second Direct Payments to Americans
Six stimulus packages have been proposed to provide second stimulus checks for Americans. The latest proposal came from the White House on Friday. Several stimulus bills are being discussed as Americans hope to soon receive another round of direct payments to help them through the coronavirus pandemic-led economic crisis. 6 Stimulus Packages Proposed With Second Round of Stimulus Checks Americans are waiting for Congress to pass a...
$12M in ‘Satoshi Era’ Bitcoins Move: 21 Block Rewards from 2010 Spent After a Decade of Slumber
On early Sunday morning around 1:38:02 a.m. (New York time), approximately 20 blocks with coinbase rewards from 2010 were spent in one block. 1,000 BTC was then consolidated into a single address before moving again. The massive movement of the decade-old ‘sleeping’ bitcoins was caught by an onchain transaction parser and the coins were spent in block 652,204. ** Update, approximately 9.99999943 BTC or $114k worth of the 1,050...
BiglyBT is the First Torrent Client to Support the BitTorrent V2 Spec
BiglyBT is a relatively new BitTorrent client that first entered the scene during the summer of 2017. The open-source software is created by ‘Parg’ and ‘TuxPaper’ who previously worked as the main developers of Azureus and Vuze. After that project stalled, they left to create their own spinoff instead. People who try BiglyBT will immediately notice that it has been created by veteran BitTorrent coders. The user interface is old-school...
DISH Sues Former Reseller of Pirate IPTV Services SET TV and Simply-TV
Back in 2018, broadcaster DISH Network sued pirate IPTV service SET TV for offering numerous TV channels that had been illegally obtained from DISH’s satellite service. In November 2018 that particular lawsuit came to end when SET TV’s operators were ordered by a Florida court to pay $90 million in statutory damages. However, DISH wasn’t convinced its work was done when it came to similar if not identical services still in operation....
