Tag: bitcoin
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Who Owns the World’s Biggest #Bitcoin Wallet? The #FBI.
from wired.com: Who owns the single largest Bitcoin wallet on the internet? The U.S. government. In September, the FBI shut down the Silk Road online black marketplace, and it started seizing bitcoins belonging to the Dread Pirate Roberts — the operator of the illicit online marketplace, who they say is an American man named Ross…
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Bitcoin’s Skyrocketing Value Ushers in Era of $1M Hacker Heists
from arstechnica.com: A company billing itself as one of Europe’s biggest Bitcoin exchanges said it suffered a coordinated attack that succeeded in stealing almost $1 million worth of the digital currency, marking the latest in a string of high-stakes heists hitting companies that hold large sums online.
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What A Bitcoin Political Debut Could Mean For Transparency
from npr.org: Bitcoin, the virtual currency that exists as alphanumeric strings online, is on the verge of getting into politics. The Federal Election Commission is expected to vote Thursday on a proposal to allow bitcoin contributions to political action committees — even as skeptics say that bitcoins could undermine the disclosure standards of federal law.…
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$1M Bitcoin Theft From Website, Some Say Inside Job
from bbc.co.uk: A man who ran an online “wallet service” for storing Bitcoins has claimed hackers stole virtual currency from his site worth more than one million Australian dollars. The Australian man said 4,100 Bitcoins (US$1.04m, £650,000) were taken in two separate attacks. He said he would not report the theft to police as Bitcoin…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode168 – Silk Road Shutdown, Fukushima Fast Food, Exercise Pills
Story #1: FBI Seizes Silk Road, an Online Drug Market, and Makes Arrest // Story #2: Popular Fast Food Chain Yoshinoya To Grow Food 60 Miles From Fukushima Plant // Story #3: Exercise ‘Can Be As Good As Pills’
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US Seizes Top Bitcoin Exchange As Crackdown Begins
The American government has previously made it clear that officials are watching Bitcoin, a decentralized economic currency that international regulators have not yet been able to control.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode150 – Selling Gold, OpIsrael, Magic Mushrooms
Story #1: Cyprus To Sell €400 Million In Gold To Finance Part Of Its Bailout // Story #2: Israeli Hackers And Anonymous Continue Their Cyber Strife // Story #3: First Magic Mushroom Clinical Trial Hits Stumbling Block
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#DataDump: Initial Solar Offering
Solar #Eclipse Blazes #RingOfFire’ This Weekend // FBI Wants Backdoors in Facebook, Skype and Instant Messaging // Billion-Dollar City Without Residents to be Built to Test New Technology // Rebekah Brooks charges take the phone-hacking scandal to a new level
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interview w/ the real plato on the “world’s first bitcoin roadtrip”
this special interview episode features an outdoor conversation with the real plato as he completes the “world’s first bitcoin roadtrip”. crossing the finish line in the pacific northwest, we met our guest in the park to talk about how he made it across the country using only a new form of digital currency called bitcoin.…
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6/23 defcon: strategies, taxes & trident tribunal
executive orders give pentagon new cyberwar guidelines* officials ‘expected to announce the entire strategy soon’* ex-dhs chief warns of cyberwar with hackers* cyber attacks grow more severe, frequent, say it practitioners* bitcoin prices plummet on hacked exchange* malware bitcoin theft a false flag on revolutionary currency?* states look to internet taxes to close budget gaps*…
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corbett report: episode188 – listening to the enemy
from corbett report: Figuring out what the global power elite are trying to accomplish requires no crystal ball or decoder ring. They say it openly, every day, in speeches and publications that are freely available to the public. Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we dive into some of the enemy propaganda…
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markets go wild after imf head kahn arrested for sexual assault
from washington post: A New York criminal court judge denied bail to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, after he was charged with attempting to rape a housekeeper at a hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Strauss-Kahn, also charged with a criminal sex act and unlawful imprisonment, made his first courtroom appearance after being pulled…