“Whether it goes up or down in the next year, or five or 10 years, I don’t know. and he was offered a 1% stake on that farmland for $25 billion, he’d write out a check immediately because it’s a great deal on something that’s productive. “If you told me you own all of the […]
Peter Thiel is a lot of things—a Republican megadonor, an avowed fan of monopolies, and the guy responsible for this website’s former parent company, Gawker Media, going bankrupt some years ago. Then, the real Thiel took the stage and said he’d start his talk the same way he’d start investor pitches in PayPal’s early days: […]
On Tuesday, officials with Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office announced Hydra’s demise, revealing in a press release that authorities had seized much of the site’s server infrastructure, as well as some 543 Bitcoin from the site—equivalent to approximately $25 million. During its reign, Hydra was known as a hub for drug trafficking and obscuring the […]
Though the man’s delusional symptoms faded after being admitted to the hospital and his injuries were treated, doctors weren’t able to reattach the lost appendage. In an attempt to stop the pain, he decided to grab a pair of scissors and to “trim the penile skin several times.” Eventually, he severed his penis clean off, […]
Everyone in Miami’s getting free bitcoin, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez told CoinDesk TV on Thursday. “We’re going to be the first city in America to give a bitcoin yield as a dividend directly to its residents,” Suarez told CoinDesk TV. It’s unclear how Miami citizens who don’t have access to computers or smartphones or documentation […]
As flagged by Bloomberg, newly released data by the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that just 10,000 individual investors control roughly one-third of the Bitcoin in circulation. To get to that number does require, of course, ignoring that moving that much Bitcoin would shift the market and affect the cryptocurrency’s value . Most likely, […]
Fans are salivating for another movie! Recently, Emily Blunt cleared the air about the Edge of Tomorrow 2, and unfortunately, it sounds like another Edge isn’t on the horizon. Yeah, I just don’t know how we’re going to do it. He gets covered in Alien goo and is given the power to relive the same […]
There’s a moment roughly halfway through Castlevania’s final season when, at the height of an arduous, suitably bloody, and rather fantastic fight sequence, one character yells at another “This is about Dracula, isn’t it!?” And… For all the monstrous threats the heroes of Netflix and Powerhouse’s animated take on the world of the Konami video […]
Fraud tracker Malware Hunter Team shared a series of screenshots of verified Twitter accounts that appeared to be hijacked in an attempt to scam Musk fanboys. In each case, the account changed its name to “SNL” and switched its profile picture to match that of the official Saturday Night Live account. The link leads to […]
A new bill that hit the New York state senate on Monday is aiming to put a multi-year pause on crypto mining operations across the state until authorities can fully suss out what that mining is doing to the climate and local environment. An analysis by Digiconomist puts the global mining footprint at around 53 […]
Companies swear up and down that they aren’t using smartphone apps to eavesdrop on our conversations and serve up hyper-focused ads. The app is the brainchild of Matt Reed, a creative technologist at redpepper who was also responsible for the short-lived tool that would Rickroll Zoom meetings, as well as the Zoombot which let users […]
Earth Day is prime time for brands and people to promote their pre-existing products to the masses, swaddled up in a green package. Dorsey’s firm Square released a white paper on Wednesday in conjunction with ARK Invest “to argue for bitcoin as a key driver of renewable energy’s future.” Dorsey quote retweeted it, Musk replied […]
