Mining difficulty on the Bitcoin network increased to 281800917193.19580078 from 254620187304.06140137 for an approximately 10.675 percent increase. This is of course yet another all time high for the network mining difficulty and shows a substantial continued appetite for the extant 12.5 Bitcoin block subsidy.
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Last Remains Of ChangeTip To Be Buried
Spam "Bitcoin" tipping service ChangeTip has finally decided to bury the rotting corpse of its company, months after most of it's employees were acquired by AirBNB.
Reddit user Nick_Changetip stated the following in their reddit announcement:
In the spring of 2016, ChangeTip’s employees were acqui-hired by Airbnb, where most of us work today. Since then, we’ve been searching for the best outcome for ChangeTip, and unfortunately the only remaining option is to shut it down.
At the end of November 2016, all tipping functionality will be deactivated, and the site will be put into withdrawal-only mode for people to collect their funds. The site will remain up for a number of months to allow users to withdraw their funds, and we will be reaching out to users to notify them.
We recommend you close your ChangeTip account. You may withdraw any remaining funds via BTC withdrawal, or you can donate your funds to Charity when you close your account from the settings page.
The move marks an end to the lulz that have graced the pages of Qntra on several occasions. Victoria van Eyk (WOT:nonperson) was unable to be reached for comment on the announcement.
Still Another Fork Digs Into Overcooked Ethereum
Ethereum developers have announced that another hard fork will be taking place on the platform at ETH block height 2,675,000, the fourth such hard fork applied to the platform this year alone. Following the usual Ethereum SOP, the update will be used to erase certain accounts that DoS attackers previously used to bloat the chain, the concept of immutability in blockchains having been lost to them long ago. Developers say that users are expecting the upgrade to fix the slow transaction and block times that occur due to the attacks. The fork also supposedly fixes the replay attack problem, which resulted in a plethora of sorry for your loss this past summer.
Phuctor Reveals 1 in ~2700 SSH-capable Machines On The Internet Still "Debianized"
Phuctor is a public service operated by S.NSA. It catalogues extant RSA public keys which are inexpensively breakable by any known means.
A short "trip down memory lane" is in order. From 2006 to 2008, Debian shipped with a sabotaged SSH key generator — which was capable of producing strictly 32768 distinct private keys of any given length.
According to Official Truth, this particular story ended in 2008, when the Debian "bug" was fixed. But in reality, a carefully-engineered boobytrap is truly a gift that keeps on giving.
Phuctor has been digesting SSH keys obtained from a scan of the complete IPv4 space since June of 2016. These have yielded, and continue to yield, breakable RSA moduli.
On Wednesday, November the 16th, factors from 168923 trivially-breakable "Debianized" RSA keys1 were added to Phuctor's database. This resulted in a discovery of 1366 distinct hits, distributed across 689 newly-broken RSA moduli. The count of RSA SSH keys (each found at a particular scanned IP, and not necessarily unique) present in Phuctor's database at the time was 2941798. The 689 moduli represented a set of 1074 IP addresses where a machine had responded to an SSH query.2
This leads us to an interesting conclusion: roughly 1 in 2700 SSH-capable machines in the IPv4 space is actively making use of a "Debianized" SSH key, even today; its traffic is effortlessly transparent to enemy eyes.
Peace in our time, shitgnomes!
Many of these Linux boxes are likewise using a "Debianized" SSH key for remote login. And if you, the reader, can find and forensically-instrument such a machine, it may prove to be an excellent source of NSAware for the discerning entomologist. ↩
Plus one other very peculiar key, appearing to belong to a USG provocateur organization called "Mayfirst". It seems to have started life as an SSH key, and is clearly Debianized, but it is not part of the set we converted to RFC4880 format for digestion in Phuctor. Instead, it had been gathered from SKS as part of Phuctor's original working set! ↩
James Clapper, Chief US Spook Resigns
Today United States Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (WOT:nonperson) announced his resignation effective at the conclusion of lame duck Hussein Bahamas' term as president. This is the latest in a long series of resignations allowing space for the President elect to reshape the former United States Government into the Trumpreich in order to better summon The Great Again. Peace in our time.
Twitter Purges "Alt-right" Members As It Intentionally Contracts Audience
In line with its adoption of the dangerous Benesch framework and its continued surrender to leftist media pressure this week, Twitter undertook a purge of "Alt-right" members. Among those banned was former Business Insider CTO Pax Dickinson (WOT:nonperson) who sought refuge in the embrace of the budding Alt-right following an organized social media shaming campaign against him (archived) lead by writers for the now defunct socialist rag Gawker. This continues the trend of Twitter and operator Jack Dorsey (WOT:nonperson) intentionally contracting the platform's userbase and alienating users while wondering why their one time fortunes are shrinking.
ViaBTC Enters Contract Mining Scamspace
ViaBTC has announced their entry into the world of Bitcoin cloud-mining scams, offering hashrate sales of their S9 mining power for 0.21 BTC per 1 TH/s. The announcement also stated that users would be able to trade mining contracts in a similar manner to failed mining exchange cex.io.
Our cloud mining exchange platform is under development and will be soon integrated into www.viabtc.com. At that time users can freely trade their cloud mining contracts. Early-stage contract holders can direct their contacts to www.viabtc.com then by signing their wallet addresses.
ViaBTC further stated that "Redemption of miners and change of mining pool are not available for the contract" ensuring that suckers for the scam are not able to use the purchased hashpower on any competing pool or fork.
The recent moves seem to be the death rattles of Roger Ver's latest attempt to stage a coup, having failed to bribe Venezuelan miners to join his revolution. ViaBTC pool stands at ~7% of total network hashrate at the time of this article.
Google Pull Adsense From News Content It Doesn't Like
Google is set to implement a new policy depriving news and informational sites of revenue from their adsense program unless their work is concordant with Google's political version of the truth. This surely has absolutely nothing to do with recent events in which political reality was found to diverge from the politically correct truth.
Today In Accidental Insecurity
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Numerous Jobs For The Unemployable Being Created As The Great Again Approaches
Following Hillary Clinton's election loss and concession, numerous otherwise unemployable homo sapiens have begun careers as professional protesters. Recruiting materials for these new jobs suggest a 15 United States dollar average rate of pay for these newly created protesting jobs. This is substantially more than the average pay rate negotiated by the United Food And Commercial Workers for dues paying members of their union.