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Sam Bankman-Fried’s weird, cryptic tweets attract even wilder theories

DIGIT — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:29:48 +0000

A series of strange tweets by former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried caused widespread speculation on Twitter, but he claims he’s “improvising” and “making it up as I go.”

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Report: Billion-Dollar Hedge Fund Fir Tree Eyes Shorting the Stablecoin Tether

DIGIT — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 20:30:13 +0000

The hedge fund Fir Tree Capital Management’s investors claim it has developed a method to short the stablecoin tether. A report notes that “clients of the firm” said the potential to reap big rewards from shorting the world’s largest stablecoin is great. Investors Say Hedge Fund Devised a Method to Short Tether, Fir Tree Bets […]

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Janice McAfee Does Not Accept Her Husband’s ‘Suicide’ Story — Widow Blasts Mainstream Media

DIGIT — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 13:30:49 +0000

The eccentric 75-year-old cybersecurity tycoon John McAfee’s death has spurred a lot of controversy and speculation since he passed. Now McAfee’s widow Janice McAfee is speaking out and she doesn’t believe the mainstream media’s reports of her husband’s suicide. Moreover, reports now say that McAfee was carrying a suicide note in his pocket when he […]

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John McAfee’s Death Ignites ‘Dead Man’s Switch’ Theory — Widow Says He ‘Was Not Suicidal’

DIGIT — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:50:28 +0000

At age 75, the former antivirus tycoon and cryptocurrency advocate, John McAfee, passed away by reported suicide. McAfee was a wild and charismatic man but prior to his death, he was facing tax-related charges and extradition to the United States. For the last few days, the internet has seen myriad theories and assessments of McAfee’s […]

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Online Sleuths Believe Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin Stash Is a Blockchain Treasure Hunt Meant to Be Found

DIGIT — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 00:00:15 +0000

Over the last twelve years, the cryptocurrency community has always been intrigued by Bitcoin’s inventor Satoshi Nakamoto. For over a decade, armchair sleuths and journalists have tried to uncover the creator’s identity and information on the whereabouts of all the bitcoins the enigma mined when the network was still in its infancy. Now a few […]

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The Search for Satoshi Nakamoto: A Look at 7 Suspected Bitcoin Creators

DIGIT — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 00:15:45 +0000

During the last decade, cryptocurrency enthusiasts have discussed the true identity of Bitcoin’s creator Satoshi Nakamoto. To this day, the Satoshi Nakamoto mystery continues to prevail, and throughout the years there’s been a great number of suspects and self-proclaimed crypto inventors. Halloween is approaching and twelve years ago on October 31, 2008, Bitcoin’s inventor published […]

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Three High Profile Crypto Networks Face Reward Halvings This Spring

DIGIT — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 19:05:56 +0000

This spring, three of the largest crypto networks, BTC, BCH, and BSV, will undergo their halvings around the same time for the first time in history. During the last halving in 2016, only one network existed, but now three protocols share the same consensus algorithm. Google Trends shows that searches for the term “bitcoin halving” […]

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Can Clues to Bitcoin’s Earliest Mysteries Be Found in a Cryopreserved Brain?

DIGIT — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 18:25:12 +0000

There has been some speculation over the years about whether the late software developer, Hal Finney, was actually Satoshi Nakamoto. Some people wonder if he had any connection to the 700,000 bitcoins mined back in the earliest days of the protocol. Finney was an Extropian, or a person who believes in the philosophy of futurism […]

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