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Apple and Goldman Sachs Don’t Trust Their New Banking Customers
2.6.2023
“Security Reviews” are locking up Apple Savings accounts for weeks on end, as a blunt-force anti-money laundering system turns customers into suspects
A Counter-Strike Map Is Informing Russians About The Ukraine Invasion Amidst Censorship
3.5.2023
As journalists and editors know, cutting through the noise to deliver the news can be a tricky business. It’s even harder when you’re trying to report on the invasion of Ukraine, and your target audience is located in Russia. Since March 2022, the Russian president has made it a crime to call...
Environmental Impact of AI Models Takes Center Stage Amid Criticism Against Bitcoin Mining
18.4.2023
While bitcoin’s effect on the environment has been discussed at length over the last two years, the latest trend of artificial intelligence (AI) software is now being criticized for its carbon footprint. According to several headlines and academic papers this year, AI consumes significant...
Midjourney AI users find workaround amid ban on Chinese President’s images
4.4.2023
Midjourney AI bans the creation of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s images, but users find ways to create deepfakes
What Hindenburg Research’s Takedown of Block Says About Money and Crime
31.3.2023
Expecting centralized money services to halt crime only helps politicize money and disempower users
Latest Ethereum Blocks Suggest Validators Are Reversing Censorship
22.3.2023
Non-censoring relays such as Agnostic and ultra sound are delivering more data blocks on Ethereum than Flashbots, the one-time king of MEV-delivering relays
Bitcoin Proponents Slam Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman After Venmo Payment Issue
9.3.2023
Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman complained on Twitter Wednesday that he was experiencing issues with the centralized payment processor Venmo. His tweet was followed by a barrage of bitcoin supporters who insisted that Krugman was now realizing the importance of censorship-resistant payment systems....
Paul Krugman Is Having a Bitcoin Moment
8.3.2023
Venmo blacklisted the die-hard crypto skeptic. Maybe now he’ll see the light
YouTube’s New Profanity Policy Will Let You Cuss A Bit More
7.3.2023
Good news for all the potty-mouthed YouTubers out there. A new update introduced by the monetization policy team makes some important changes, letting you cuss more often in your uploads and still collect that ad-revenue bag.Read more
Original Bitcoin Wizard Artist Raises Nearly $150,000 in BTC via Lightning, Despite Criticism From Bitcoin Maximalists
21.2.2023
On Monday, crypto proponent Udi Wertheimer shared a story on Twitter explaining how he and the Taproot Wizards helped an artist who created the original 2013 bitcoin wizard meme raise nearly $150,000 in bitcoin. While the minting and sale were successful, Wertheimer explained that bitcoin...
Fewer Than Half of New Ethereum Blocks Over the Past 24 Hours Are OFAC Compliant
14.2.2023
For the first time since October, fewer than 50% of blocks added to the Ethereum blockchain over a 24-hour period are OFAC compliant, partially thanks to more non-censoring options that make up a larger share of the blockspace market
Bitcoin could hit $10M in 9 years but more sidechains needed: Blockstream CEO
13.2.2023
If Back and Finney’s $10 million price prediction becomes true, the BTC market cap will reach approximately $200 trillion
Oh No, ChatGPT AI Has Been Jailbroken To Be More Reckless
8.2.2023
If you’ve spent any time toying with or reading about ChatGPT, one of the internet’s latest obsessions and topic of contentious conversation concerning artificially intelligent software, then you know the service has specific restrictions on what it can and cannot say…until now. Some clever users...
Bitcoin Records Largest Mined Block to Date, 4 MB Block Containing NFT Causes Unease Among Small-Block Supporters
2.2.2023
Amid the controversy surrounding the Ordinals project and the debate over what types of data should be stored on the Bitcoin blockchain, the network mined its largest block, nearly 4 MB in size, containing just 63 transactions. One of the transactions was a 3.94 MB Ordinal inscription featuring...
Ordinals protocol sparks debate over NFT's place in the Bitcoin ecosystem
30.1.2023
The community has been divided as to whether the NFT-like "digital artifacts" are the right fit for the Bitcoin ecosystem
ETH staking on top exchanges contributes to Ethereum censorship: Data
26.12.2022
One of the biggest factors harming Ethereum's credible neutrality is the use of censoring MEV relays by crypto ecosystems and exchanges
Is Ethereum’s Censorship Problem Taking a Turn?
21.12.2022
New relayers and community efforts have contributed to a decline in censorship on the blockchain
PayPal has become an episode of Black Mirror: Elon Musk
14.12.2022
The "PayPal Mafia" including co-founders Peter Thiel and Elon Musk have slammed the payments platform over its "totalitarian" debanking policies
Blockchain is the only viable path to privacy and censorship resistance in the 21st century
7.12.2022
Decentralized file-sharing services that Big Tech companies can’t control are the only way internet users will be able to maintain their freedom in the years ahead
‘I Wanted to Punch Kanye’ — Free Speech Waffler Elon Musk’s Nonsensical Take on Bitcoin, CBDCs, and Censorship
5.12.2022
“Vox Populi, Vox Dei, man.” So says self-proclaimed Chief Twit Elon Musk from a private jet flying high above the world during a Twitter Spaces appearance on Sunday, Dec. 4 (JST). It does sound nice to say, but the voice of the mob should never be the voice of “God.” The reasons...