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Shanghai Man: Crypto media closes, bad news just repeats, mining laws are beneficial?
16.7.2021
With government officials trying to clean up the image of China prior to the start of the Winter Games, miners are leaving in droves and media group Bishijie has been forced to close down
Nintendogs Speedrun Foiled By A Very Bad Boy Indeed
6.7.2021
Meet Korone, the worst possible Nintendog and all-around not-good boy. At Summer Games Done Quick yesterday Nintendogs speedrunner ZooKetra’s early-morning beginner medal run was going just fine until this petulant black lab pup refused to be guided through a simple obstacle-course tunnel.Read more
Bitcoin Mining Report Claims Miner Energy Consumption Mix 56% Sustainable in Q2
4.7.2021
During the last three months, there’s been a significant focus on the effects bitcoin mining has on the global environment. While many have claimed bitcoin mining is bad for the environment and many others have stressed that it affects the environment in a positive way, either way, most...
Star Wars: The Bad Batch's Newest Episode Has An Epic Gamer Moment
3.7.2021
Tensions are running high in the latest episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, as our favorite group of misfit clones have to balance making money with keeping a low profile. With a number of close calls that nearly had Omega returning to the hands of the Empire, it’s clear that Hunter and co....
Bad call? Bitfinex bears closed a block of Bitcoin shorts before the drop below $32K
22.6.2021
Bitcoin short positions at Bitfinex soared as BTC price dropped below $40,000, so why did the majority of them close before the largest part of the correction?
Useful and Useless Code Comments
16.6.2021
Jim Nielsen:
If somebody says a comment isn’t adding any value, I would ask: to whom?
Personally, I’ve never liked the advice that writing obvious comments is bad practice—probably because I write obvious comments all the time.
Jim showed …
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Docker Changes Free-Tier Service Policy Due to Cryptocurrency Mining Abuse
15.6.2021
Docker, a popular cloud computing integration solution, is making changes to its free-tier service due to cryptocurrency mining abuse. The service discontinued its “autobuild” feature due to misuse by bad actors, using it to mine cryptocurrencies in their servers. This is a modus...
Star Wars: The Bad Batch Has A Great Fallen Order Moment
14.6.2021
Disney, the ultimate experts in brand tie-ins, did something very specific last Friday that stood out to anyone who has played Respawn’s terrific Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order game. To go along with the announcement that Fallen Order will get an upgrade for the PS5 and Xbox Series X, Star Wars:...
After googling it, CFTC boss says DeFi is a ‘bad idea’ and probably illegal
9.6.2021
CFTC Commissioner Dan M. Berkovitz has called for a crackdown on unregulated DeFi derivatives platforms
Little Green Mining Hood or the Big Bad Wolf: Musk’s Sustainability Play
27.5.2021
Recent announcements and actions by Elon Musk surrounding bitcoin mining sustainability raise questions about the reasoning and motivations of Tesla’s Technoking. Is it possible that Musk is playing a calculated marketing game to introduce a Tesla mining solution? The World of Bitcoin Mining...
Crypto PR: The good, the bad and the shoddy
14.5.2021
Griff Green: Doge-loving hippy hacker steals crypto before bad guys can
12.5.2021
PSA: Mixing G Fuel With Alcohol Is A Bad Idea
26.4.2021
Over the weekend, I made a mistake.Read more
Bad omen? US dollar and Bitcoin are both slumping in a rare trend
20.4.2021
Bitcoin struggles to regain momentum despite the dollar falling to a seven-week low
Arkansas Governor Belatedly Realizes Wanting Trans Kids to Die Is Perhaps a Bad Look
5.4.2021
On Monday, in a rather surprising turn of events, Arkansas’s Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson vetoed HB 1570, a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for trans youth in the state, which sailed through Arkansas’s Republican-dominated legislature. Read more
Counter-Strike Match-Fixing Is So Bad The FBI Is Getting Involved
1.4.2021
We’ve seen plenty of Australians get pinged by police and tournament organisers for match fixing and illegal betting in Counter-Strike, but the problem is apparently so bad that the FBI is now getting involved to clean up North America.Read more
The Worst (And Not-So-Bad) Video Game Movies
17.3.2021
More often than not, video game movies take something we know, love, and obsess over and transform it into an unrecognizable monster at worst—or a forgettable, underwhelming experience at best. Happy endings in the video game movie genre can be hard to come by.Read more
BTC Miner Stresses: ‘Bitcoin is One of the Most Environment-Friendly Financial Networks’
15.3.2021
While bitcoin has been gathering widespread attention with prices touching all-time highs, mainstream pundits have tried to attack the leading crypto asset for its energy consumption. It seems a new ‘bitcoin is bad for the environment’ editorial is published nearly every week...
At Least Your Day Wasn't This Bad
20.2.2021
I’ve been trying not to complain too much about Texas’s absurd weather because my family hasn’t been hit quite as hard as others. But there are just some people that had it even worse. Nothing will ever be as bad as walking out to discover your car has been completely engulfed by Mr. Freeze’s...
Nioh 2's PC Release Has Some Bad News And Good News
9.2.2021
The bad news first: Nioh 2 Complete Edition on PC, out last week, is optimised pretty terribly, and has weird bugs, like the game’s keyboard + mouse control method being almost unusable since the on-screen prompts still only appear for a controller.Read more