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Someone Mysteriously Paid $2.5M to Send $133 in Cryptocurrency
Was it simply a catastrophically expensive mistake, or something more nefarious? The mining pool is holding on to the fee in case the sender speaks up.
Researcher Arrested for Allegedly Teaching North Korea About Ethereum
Virgil Griffith has been arrested for allegedly giving a presentation on cryptocurrency in North Korea, where discussion touched on evading sanctions. Griffith maintains his presentation contained basic concepts that could be found online.
This DIY Punching Bag Rewards You with Cryptocurrency for Whacking It
Now you can literally sweat over your investment—if you don't work out, you lose your cryptocurrency.
Goatse Keeps Trying to Make Money With Cryptocurrency
Goatse.cx's latest play with virtual money is selling pixel space for ether, the Ethereum blockchain's native token.
This Cashless Canadian Bartering Platform May Be the Future of Cryptocurrency
Bunz is taking a page out of the Bitcoin playbook, bucking the industry trend of “if you build it, they will come.”
Bitcoin Mining Alone Could Raise Global Temperatures Above Critical Limit By 2033
A recent UN climate report said that if global temperatures rose above 1.5 C it could lead to catastrophic climate change. Bitcoin alone could raise global temperatures by 2 C within two decades.
A Wildly Popular Ethereum Gambling Game Just Paid Out 3 Million Dollars
'Fomo3D' is a controversial and popular Ethereum application, and the lottery's winner may have clogged the blockchain itself to win.
World's Biggest GPU Maker No Longer Expects to Make Money on Cryptocurrency Mining
Selling GPUs for cryptocurrency mining accounted for 10 percent of Nvidia’s revenue only a few months ago. Now the company isn’t factoring it into its revenue stream at all.
Artists Ai Weiwei and Kevin Abosch Are Using the Blockchain to Make Us Question What’s ‘PRICELESS’
We talked to Weiwei and Abosch about PRICELESS, which uses the Ethereum blockchain to spark a conversation about the value of human life, and the current refugee crisis.
Assassination Markets for Jeff Bezos, Betty White, and Donald Trump Are On the Blockchain
Assassination markets are old as the concept of cypherpunk itself. Now blockchain-based betting platform Augur has become a home for them.
An Incredibly Simple Hack Had the Potential to Manipulate Cryptocurrency Markets
Visitors to Ethereum blockchain explorer Etherscan.io on Monday were shown a pop-up that said, “l337,” but the hackers could have tricked site visitors by superficially changing values on the blockchain record.
How to Invest in Stocks if You've Only Got $100
Here are three investing apps that make it easy for first-time investors to dip their toes into the stock market without paying high fees.