Peter Thiel Shreds $100s and Mocks the Unwashed Masses at Crypto Conference – Gizmodo

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: […]

Authorities Shutter Sprawling Dark Web Drug Bazaar and Seize $25 Million in Bitcoin – Gizmodo

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 […]

Miami Plans to Give Out Bitcoin in Its Quest for Crypto Utopia – Gizmodo

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 […]

Study Finds One-Third of Bitcoin Is Controlled by Small Group of Whales – Gizmodo

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, […]

Castlevania’s Final Season Gets There, in the End

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 […]

Hacked Verified Twitter Accounts Are Spamming Musk Fans With Bitcoin Scams Ahead of SNL Debut

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 […]

Concept App That Pays You Bitcoin to Name-Drop Brands Is the Future and You Know It

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 […]

Jack Dorsey Claims Bitcoin ‘Incentivizes Renewable Energy’ Despite All Evidence to the Contrary

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 […]