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Elon Musk's X Starts Charging New Users $1 per Year to Unlock Posting
Twitter's 'Not a Bot' program has been rolled out for new accounts on web in New Zealand and the Philippines.
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Silk Road Hacker Showed Feds $70M Worth of Bitcoin on His Laptop Before Getting Arrested
Police body cam footage shows the Silk Road hacker James 'Jimmy' Zhong opening up his laptop with thousands of BTC on it in front of federal investigators, not realizing he was incriminating himself, revealed CNBC investigation.
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Disclosure: Replacement Cycling Attacks on the Lightning Network
"End of last year (December 2022), amid technical discussions on eltoo payment channels and incentives compatibility of the mempool anti-DoS rules, a new transaction-relay jamming attack affecting lightning channels was discovered."
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AI Tool Lets Bitcoiners Flood IRS with Comments Against New Draconian Surveillance Regime
New tax proposal aims to extend reporting requirements for brokers as well as expand the definition of a broker to include anyone who “knows or is in a position to know the identity of the party that makes the sale and the nature of the transaction." Public comments are accepted until October 30.
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California's 'BitLicense' Bill Signed Into Law
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a 'crypto' licensing bill which is set to take effect in July 2025.
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SEC Did Not Appeal Grayscale's Bitcoin ETF Court Decision
October 13 was the deadline for the SEC to lodge an appeal against the court decision regarding Grayscale Bitcoin Spot ETF but the agency chose to pass the option.
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OpenSats Grants Long-Term Support to Vasil Dimov
"Vasil started contributing full-time to Bitcoin Core in 2020. Since then, he has worked on various improvements, focusing mostly on the networking layer of the software."
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Key Points from Snowden's Speech at Bitcoin Amsterdam 2023
"Bitcoin has a privacy problem. Everybody knows it, and for as many years as I've been giving these talks now, it is still on fix. The world has a privacy problem."
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Madeira Announces The Launch of Bitcoin Business Hub
The President of Madeira Miguel Albuquerque announced the creation of a Bitcoin business hub in the region to foster innovation.
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Bitcoin Amsterdam 2023 - Day 2 Livestream
Bitcoin Amsterdam is the largest Bitcoin Conference in Europe, hosted in Amsterdam on October 12 - 13, 2023 at Westergas.
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Bitcoin Amsterdam 2023 - Day 1 Livestream
Bitcoin Amsterdam is the largest Bitcoin Conference in Europe, hosted in Amsterdam on October 12 - 13, 2023 at Westergas.
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Bitmain Paused Employee Salary Payments For September - Local Reports
Bitcoin application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) manufacturer Bitmain has temporarily halted employee salary payments for September, ceased all staff bonuses, and is considering 50% cut to basic wages, according to several local news outlets.
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