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pretfood··on Bitcoin’s Price Breaks All-Time High: Here’s Why It Happened
cos people have nothing else to spend their money on?
pretfood··on The largest unknown Bitcoin wallet moved nearly $1B for $0.48 in fees
Dayum. That's about as much as I earn from my fiat in a year!
pretfood··on Chinese firm dumps 83 tonnes of fake gold on the market
There goes the neighbourhood.
pretfood··on Folding at home now has 1M users fighting coronavirus
Good to see grid computing brought back from the dead.
pretfood··on Binance to acquire CoinMarketCap for $400M
Bye bye impartiality
pretfood··on Julian Assange’s dad compares WikiLeaks to Ethereum
The only difference being Buterin won't go to jail for building his network when Assange probably will.
pretfood··on Four firms to control nearly the entire Bitcoin mining industry
There is an ongoing concentration of power - as seen on many other networks too. This is a worrying sign.
pretfood··on Pornhub uses cryptocurrency to avoid PayPal ban
Crypto's killer use case: To allow people to get their rocks off without receiving a bank statement at the end of the month.
pretfood··on Hacker Noon, a popular tech site, goes on the blockchain
What ever next? Food on the blockchain? Oh wait, they've done that already.
pretfood··on It's Official, Akon Has His Own “Crypto City” in Senegal
"Locked up, they won't let me outtt."
pretfood··on HTC doubles down on VR headsets and blockchain phones
Fuck VR, it's all about blockchain.
pretfood··on Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media
Ha, I knew it wouldn't take long for web 2 to get in on the web 3 act.
pretfood··on Is Hainan the new “blockchain island?” Meet the contenders
My money is always on China.
pretfood··on France to experiment with digital euro in 2020
Can't believe it. And here they were bitching about Libra all this time. Typical.
pretfood··on Bitcoin exchange Binance’s rise to power
Best piece of reporting I've ever read.
pretfood··on China President Xi Jinping extols the virtues of blockchain technology
My money's on China. After Libra hearings, they don't stand a chance.
pretfood··on Plot Against Ethereum: Is the ProgPoW Algorithm Custom-Built for Nvidia's GPUs?
I think so. It's why I'm getting out of crypto. Too many shady deals shading up the place. It's shady.
pretfood··on Telegram quietly snuck its blockchain past regulators
I think I'd rather have a government with decades of fiscal management, bad or otherwise look after money than an organisation that has absolutely no accountability whatsoever.
pretfood··on Why Google’s quantum computer is no threat to Bitcoin–yet
Give it three years.
pretfood··on Millennials love Bitcoin, still don’t trust or understand it: survey
I know everything about bitcoin and I love it.
pretfood··on Facebook inundated with scam Libra ads
What goes around, comes around! hahahahah
pretfood··on Federal Reserve: Facebook Libra “cannot go forward” without addressing concerns
Fuck the regulators, build a brand new economy!
pretfood··on BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen at last releases Chia cryptocurrency whitepaper
"“proof of space and time”—an alternative to the energy-guzzling proof of work that underpins networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum that instead relies on the excess storage space on hard drives to verify its blockchain." Man that sounds exciting!
pretfood··on Tether loaned USDT to investors and illegally traded in New York, says NYAG
oh man, I'm in New York and I've got Tethers. Time to pull the eject cord (on both)
pretfood··on SEC targets yet another ICO: a diamond-backed “ponzi scheme” Argyle Coin
I think anyone who hears 'diamond' and 'crypto' in the same sentence and doesn't think it's a ponzi scheme needs their head checked.
pretfood··on Craig Wright files copyright claim for Bitcoin white paper
I think his response to questions at Oxford University is all the proof you need. https://decryptmedia.com/6834/craig-wright-faces-scrutiny-at...
pretfood··on Prediction market Augur says GOP loses the house but keeps Senate
This is make or break for Augur I reckon.
pretfood··on Tezos founder Arthur Breitman opens up about the company’s troubled past
no idea they had some guy squeezing cash out of the foundation
pretfood··on MakerDAO adds ERC-20 support to DAI stablecoin
Surely it just passes the buck to the MakerDAO token holders? Feels like a case of tragedy of the commons.
pretfood··on Golem adds GPU support to decentralized marketplace
Does this mean GPU prices are going up again. * groan