The fake image was shared by a verified Twitter account masquerading as Bloomberg and went viral after being amplified by real media outlets.
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Crypto Twitter (CT) might not be the first place you’d think to look for pandemic survival strategies, but in recent weeks the community has gone into overdrive, busily discussing scenarios related to COVID-19 aka the coronavirus. While some figures have merely wondered what effect the outbreak will have on the bitcoin market, others have started […]
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The hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto, which has beguiled internet sleuths for years, has taken another bizarre turn. A new website, Got Satoshi, shows a countdown timer to when it will unveil Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator. The reveal will occur in 10 days’ time, when many bitcoiners will be gathered in New York for the annual Consensus […]
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Bitcoin’s public blockchain may be its biggest flaw. This is according to Edward Snowden, the infamous US whistle-blower. While everyone is concerned about the transactional limits of Bitcoin, very few give thought to the implications of its public ledger in regard to privacy. A much larger structural flaw Describing the public ledger as Bitcoin’s “much larger structural flaw”, Snowden expressed his reservations about Bitcoin’s ability to support global trade in the long haul while the complete purchase history of its users is publicly available to everyone: The much larger structural flaw is its public ledger that’s simply incompatible with having an enduring mechanism
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