'Mighty Ducks' Star, Crypto Mogul Brock Pierce Offering $1 Million for Credible California Election Fraud Evidence

A former Mighty Ducks actor and cryptocurrency mogul is giving a $1 million reward to people who can prove credible instances in which election fraud has taken place in California.

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Bitcoin Falls To $60,000 As Zcash Bug Rocks Crypto

Bitcoin briefly fell below $60,000 on Friday, "extending its weekly loss to nearly 20% and threatening to fall below $59,000," reports CoinDesk. Crypto was also hit by a 40%-plus plunge in Zcash after Shielded Labs disclosed a years-old bug that could have allowed undetected counterfeit ZEC creation. From the report: Now, with stocks in plunge mode -- the Nasdaq down nearly 4% on Friday --…

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Criptomoedas: Banco Central passa a exigir auditoria independente para empresas

O Banco Central (BC) passará a exigir, a partir de 1º de junho, a apresentação de relatório de auditoria independente como requisito para autorizar o funcionamento de empresas prestadoras de serviços de ativos virtuais, como corretoras de criptomoedas e outras plataformas que operam com moedas digitais no Brasil. A nova determinação estabelece que somente serão […]

Doug Liman’s AI-Enabled Crypto Movie ‘Bitcoin’ To Feature Bezos, Zuckerberg, Putin, Eric Trump & More As Characters

EXCLUSIVE: Hold onto your crypto. This could get interesting. It turns out Doug Liman’s much-discussed AI-enabled satire Bitcoin, starring Casey Affleck, Pete Davidson, Gal Gadot and Isla Fisher, will also have some well known supporting characters. Versions of Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un and Eric Trump are due to […]

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After 3.5 trillion guesses, a forgotten $400k Bitcoin wallet finally opened

Eleven years ago, an X user who goes by cprkrn changed the password on a Bitcoin wallet holding 5 BTC. He was stoned at the time. He forgot the new password by morning, and 5 BTC sat untouched while it grew to roughly $400,000. — Read the rest

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Morgan Stanley Undercuts Rivals On Pricing In Crypto Trading Debut

Morgan Stanley is adding crypto trading to E*Trade, with a pilot now underway and a broader rollout planned for the platform's 8.6 million customers later this year. The bank is reportedly undercutting rivals with a 50-basis-point trading fee as it bets traditional finance and DeFi will converge. "By contrast, Robinhood Markets' (HOOD) fees start at 95 bps, Coinbase Global's (COIN) begins at 60…

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Is It HODL Time As Bitcoin Breaches $80K Again?

Bitcoin’s latest push back above $80,000 has revived the market’s familiar “HODL” script, but the move is less a clean breakout than a stress test for investors still holding through a brutal correction from last year’s record highs. Bitcoin was recently trading around $80,224, up about 2.0% from the previous close, after reaching an intraday […]

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The Risks Of Anonymity In The Age Of Generative AI

As its name suggests, generative AI is designed to generate material in response to prompts by drawing on its probabilistic database built up through analyzing huge quantities of training input. But it can draw on those patterns to analyze other files, and that’s also a widely used application. Writing in The Argument, Kelsey Piper encountered […]

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Billionaire Backer Sues Trump Family's Crypto Firm Over Alleged Extortion

Ancient Slashdot reader Alain Williams shares a report from the BBC: The Trump family's World Liberty crypto venture is being sued by one of its billionaire backers over allegations of extortion. Justin Sun has accused World Liberty of an "illegal scheme" to seize his WLFI tokens, a cryptocurrency issued by the company. Sun alleges the firm, co-founded by U.S. President Donald Trump and his son…

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Los 600.000 Bitcoin de Venezuela: la cifra atribuida al chavismo circula sin pruebas verificables

Más allá del impacto del número y de su potencia narrativa, la tesis de una fortuna estatal de esa magnitud carece de evidencia on-chain verificable y se apoya, en buena medida, en conjeturas y reportes de segunda mano.

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Security Experts Warn of Scammers Promising Safe Passage Through Strait of Hormuz

The Greek maritime risk management agency MARISKS issued an alert on Monday warning that scammers masquerading as Iranian officials are offering false promises of safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz to shipping companies, in exchange for ransoms paid in cryptocurrency.

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Is “Satoshi Nakamoto” Really Adam Back?

The _New York Times_ has a long article where the author lays out an impressive array of circumstantial evidence that the inventor of Bitcoin is the cypherpunk Adam Back.

I don’t know. The article is convincing, but it’s written to be convincing.

I can’t remember if I ever met Adam. I was a member of the Cypherpunks mailing list for a while, but I was never really an active participant. I spent…

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Gal Gadot & Isla Fisher Join Casey Affleck & Pete Davidson In Doug Liman Thriller ‘Bitcoin’ As Pic Heads To Cannes Market

EXCLUSIVE: Gal Gadot (Superwoman) and Isla Fisher (Now You See Me: Now You Don’t) have joined Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson in Doug Liman-directed thriller Bitcoin. Ahead of the Cannes market, Patrick Wachsberger’s 193 is launching sales on the film, which has previously been called Killing Satoshi in online reports, but is officially titled Bitcoin. […]

Un vistazo al Estrecho de Ormuz en tiempo real: por dónde anda y a dónde va (o no va) cada petrolero

Menudo lío hay montado en plena Guerra de Irán en el Estrecho de Ormuz: que si unos petroleros pueden pasar y otros no, que si Irán lo cierra y lo mina (permitiendo solo pasar a los que paguen a tocateja en bitcoin), que si Estados Unidos dice que entonces para eso lo cierran ellos…

Para situaciones como esta es cuando vienen bien sitios como este Mapa del tráfico marítico, donde puedes…

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UmbrelOS – A Debian-based personal home cloud OS with a slick user interface

UmbrelOS is a Debian-based home cloud OS with a neat web-based interface that works on devices like Raspberry Pi SBCs, mini PCs, old computers, and more. Having been first released in 2020, the OS is not exactly new, but I only discovered it today after noticing it was one of the supported operating systems for the Pironman 5 Pro Max enclosure for the Raspberry Pi 5. It initially launched as a…

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NYT investigation names Adam Back as Bitcoin's Satoshi Nakamoto

John Carreyrou — the journalist who broke the Theranos story — spent 18 months trying to identify Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin's pseudonymous creator. His conclusion, published in the _New York Times_ this week: Adam Back, 55, a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, the computational puzzle system that became Bitcoin's proof-of-work mining engine. — Read the rest

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