Weekend Tech Roundup January 06, 2024
Google Just Disabled Cookies for 30 Million Chrome Users. Here’s How to Tell If You’re One of Them. But me love cookies!Photo: VIAVAL TOURS / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) Mr. Tweet Fumbles…
Wait, Is Bitcoin Going to Die?
The price of Bitcoin crashed nearly 10% on Wednesday, falling from $45,000 to below $41,000 in mere hours, hurting crypto’s best bull run in a year. But what, or who,…
Mt. Gox Victims Report ‘Double Repayments’ From 2014 Bitcoin Hack
Photo: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg (Getty Images) Well, that’s one way to see your investment pay off. In 2014, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, suffered a notorious hack…
Sam Altman’s Weird Eyeball Scanning Crypto Tech Comes to Minecraft
Worldcoin, Sam Altman’s cryptocurrency venture, is now integrating its verification services into popular apps such as Reddit, Discord, Shopify, Mercado Libre, Telegram, and Minecraft. The move is part of Altman’s…
Binance May Sacrifice $4 Billion to Settle DOJ Case
The US Justice Department seeks $4 billion from Binance to end a years-long investigation into the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, according to Bloomberg. Negotiations are reportedly underway that could subject…
Millions of Old Bitcoin Wallets Have Critical Security Flaws, Experts Say
Photo: Lukas Gojda / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) Bitcoin wallets older than 2016 could have a vulnerability that puts over $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency at risk, according to a report in…
Crypto Exchanges, Not Just FTX, Are All a Mess Right Now
Photo: Benjamin Girette (Getty Images) The founders of cryptocurrency exchanges face a mountain of regulatory challenges and billions in personal losses. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao personally lost $12 billion this year…
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Doesn’t Want Americans to Read This Blog Post
Where do we start with Sam Altman’s Worldcoin? The OpenAI CEO’s startup is building a new cryptocurrency. Worldcoin is also part of Altman’s disquieting plan to capture all of the…
Texas Energy Grid Paid Bitcoin Miner $31.7 Million to Stop Working Amid Heatwave
The Lone Star State apparently loves cryptocurrency so much that it’s willing to pay mining firms to not do their jobs. One of those mining operations, called Riot Platforms, claims…
Just a Month After Launch, Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Is Already Dying
If you’ve already had your iris scanned for Worldcoin’s crypto-based “free money” promise, your biometric investment has been cut in half since launch. I Gave Sam Altman a Copy of…