Last week on Tuesday Gizmodo and Wired speculated to much derision a new candidate to correspond in meatspace to the ephemeral Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Both outlets ended the week by each publishing their own pieces resembling admissions of doubt about their initial reports in varying degrees. Wired came closer to doing the right thing by admitting (archived) they were in all likelihood attention scammed by Hoaxtoshi. Gizmodo on the other hand, lacking in humility and journalistic sobriety, in their piece work to salvage the narrative they presented with an appeal to mystery (archived). Continue reading
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Generally Upward Price Volatility At fiat/Bitcoin Interfaces Continues
After the reported exchange rate offered on fiat/Bitcoin spiked last month, they have spiked again this past week hitting approximately 450 United States dollars per Bitcoin. Following last months spike prices have settled in to a band between 300 and 400 United States dollars before climbing again to this latest apex. Earlier in 2015 Bitcoin as reported by fiat/Bitcoin interfaces had been holding in a boring and steady band between 200 and 300 United States dollars for nearly the entire year. Increased buying pressure is leading some exchanges to criminally reckless coping mechanisms as their thin order book sell sides are exposed. Continued caution in dealing with all fiat/Bitcoin interfaces is advised as noise about particular exchanges being "Big" is no reliable indicator of their safety.
Missouri Phone Purchases Put Police On Edge
Several large purchases of prepaid cellular phones at central and south western Missouri Walmart stores have put local police on edge and attracted the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (archived). In the United States prepaid cellular phones are one of the most popular affordable ways for lower income population to receive phone service. Macon county sheriff's department detective Curt Glover offered: Continue reading
Satoshi: Craig Steven Wright Not Me, We All Are Me
In a message posted to a bitcoin development mailing list from satoshi@vistomail.com the sender who is likely Satoshi offered (archived):
I am not Craig Wright. We are all Satoshi.
After XT Failure Gavin Andresen Supports Jim Crow For Signatures On The Blockchain
After a low key conference this past weekend in Hong Kong, hype has been building for a proposal its proponents call "segregated witness," which amounts to Jim Crow style prejudice against cryptographic signatures on the blockchain. The system could cleave transactions into a new data structure that maintains transaction outputs in proper blocks but relegates signatures essential for verifying transaction into a lesser disposable structure known as a "witness" that does not get committed to the blockchain. Pieter Wuille originally presented the idea as a potential soft fork candidate, but now CIA collaborator Gavin Andresen of XTCoin ignominy is calling for the scheme to be implemented immediately as a hard fork. Continue reading
Hoaxtoshi Has History Of Business Bad Blood
The saga of Hoaxtoshi heats up as Craig Steven Wright, the man who want to be known as Satoshi and whose home was raided, is being reported in the financial press as a huckster with a history of bad business deals and adverse judgements in court (archived). Hoaxtoshi was alleged to correspond to the identity of the historical Satoshi Nakamoto by writers from Wired and Gawker Media. These writers by all appearances followed a collection of evidence most likely fabricated by the Hoaxtoshi Craig Steven Wright himself. Continue reading
Craig Steven Wright Raided By Australian Police
Hours after Wired and Gizmodo reported on the same day that Craig Steven Wright is their best guess for a likely Satoshi Nakamoto, Australian Federal Police began reportedly began raiding residences and businesses associated with Wright (archived). Mainstream media are parroting police assertions that the raids are unconnected with the possibility Wright may be Nakamoto but instead related to Australian Taxation Office matters. Given the timing of the raid however it is exceedingly likely police, the tax office, and other agents of fiat when reading the recent speculation did as a point of fact become aroused on rumors of Satoshi's hoard. Continue reading
Microsoft Leaks XBox Live Private Key
Today Microsoft issued a security advisory announcing that they have disclosed a TLS/SSL private key associated with the domain xboxlive.com today (archived). The private key corresponds to a wildcard certificate which allows it to be used to act as xboxlive.com and any of its subdomains. This lapse by the house that Bill Gates built comes as Donald Trump proposes the United States consult with Bill Gates to understand how the internet works so that it can be closed up.
Trump Proposes "Closing Up the Internet"
Bankruptcy artist, likely payment fraudster, and aspiring fiat politician Donald Trump has proposed "Closing up the Internet" in order to advance United States interests (archived). On this point Trump joins the current United States chief executive fraudster President Hussein Bahamas in using a hawkish tone when discussing the increasing impotence of the United States government with respect to the internet. In the mainstream press this was overshadowed a previous comment by proposing border restrictions. Continue reading
RBG Black Rebel Sentenced For Tweeting Link And Boosting Website Traffic
Alleged Rebel But Gangster Black Rebels member Justin Payne was sentenced to 12 months in prison on a misdemeanor computer tampering charge for tweeting a link to the St. Louis County Police Association website which caused the site to go down as it was unequipped to handle the traffic being tweeted by the RBG Black Rebels brings. Prosecutors, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the police officer's union, and apparently even Payne's own lawyer believed this act constituted a "cyber attack" even though legitimate traffic through an effect once known as "Slashdotting" is often capable of taking down poorly provisioned websites. Payne faces a further 18 month in prison for a felony "possession of an unregistered destructive device" charge related to a Molotov cocktail allegedly found in Payne's vehicle when he was arrested at his place of employment the Veterans Affairs Records Management Center. Local and mainstream outlets have been alternatively referring to Payne's Molotov cocktail as a "fire bomb" and "improvised incendiary device" presumably to boost their own profiles since #terrorism seems to be trending in the media.