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The High-Tech Flesh Palace Where Strippers Dance for Bitcoins – Daily Beast

Daily BeastThe High-Tech Flesh Palace Where Strippers Dance for BitcoinsDaily BeastWelcome to the exciting new world of Bitcoin. Untraceable and irreversible, this cryptocurrency offers consumers a hassle-free way to make purchases sans digital footpri…


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The High-Tech Flesh Palace Where Strippers Dance for Bitcoins
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Welcome to the exciting new world of Bitcoin. Untraceable and irreversible, this cryptocurrency offers consumers a hassle-free way to make purchases sans digital footprint. Take away the cash and the high-interest credit cards et voila, spending turns ...

Robert Binning, CEO of StreamSpace to Speak on Blockchain Technology at Digital Hollywood Event

hollywoodStreamSpace is pleased to announce that Robert Binning, Founder and CEO of StreamSpace LLC, will be a featured speaker at the Digital Hollywood Fall Event on October 10-12, 2017.  Robert will discuss the blockchain architecture and how it applies to streaming media storage and distribution networks as a subject matter expert in “The Hollywood Masterclass:  Packaging, Producing, and Distributing in a Cross-Platform World.” Digital Hollywood debuted in 1994 and has from its start been among the leading trade conferences in its field with over 15,000 top executives in the film, television, music, home video, cable, telecommunications and computer industries attending

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StreamSpace is pleased to announce that Robert Binning, Founder and CEO of StreamSpace LLC, will be a featured speaker at the Digital Hollywood Fall Event on October 10-12, 2017.  Robert will discuss the blockchain architecture and how it applies to streaming media storage and distribution networks as a subject matter expert in “The Hollywood Masterclass:  Packaging, Producing, and Distributing in a Cross-Platform World.”

Digital Hollywood debuted in 1994 and has from its start been among the leading trade conferences in its field with over 15,000 top executives in the film, television, music, home video, cable, telecommunications and computer industries attending the various events each year.

Digital Hollywood Fall will be held at the Skirball Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Ave, Los Angeles CA 90049, on October 10-12, 2017.  Registration information and the full agenda are available at http://www.digitalhollywood.com.  Tickets range from $135 for a self-employed production or technical startup to $635 for an All Access Pass for the three-day event.

About StreamSpace

StreamSpace is developing a platform for filmmakers to publish their video projects in a secure manner and to engage with their fans to enjoy, rate, and promote independent film content.  The StreamSpace platform uses blockchain technology to distribute and monetize the video content.

A key feature of the StreamSpace solution is the network of social media channels that link filmmakers with their audiences and fans.  The conversations can begin with the launch of a film into the market, or even earlier, while the film is in development; the filmmaker can engage on our social channels to communicate about crowdfunding, screenplay or storyline development, or other steps along the path to finishing the project.

About Robert Binning

Robert Binning, Founder and CEO, is an active cryptocurrency enthusiast who was introduced to blockchain technology through mining bitcoin back in 2012. Robert has contributed to the success and sustainability of multiple cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum, and continues to mine transactions on multiple chains today. Robert attended the University of Texas, is an active member of the National Eagle Scout Association, and enjoys outdoor activities such as camping, hiking and alpine skiing.

Media Contacts:

Digital Hollywood:  

Victor Harwood, President, Digital Hollywood. Tel: 212-352-9720

Email: [email protected]

StreamSpace:

Email:  [email protected]

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored press release and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of any The Merkle employees. This is not investment or trading advice, always do your own independent research.

Bitcoin is more valuable than gold — but nowhere near as stable – Business Insider


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Bitcoin is more valuable than gold — but nowhere near as stable
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Some investors consider bitcoin a safe haven that’s comparable to gold. Like gold, the digital currency isn’t tied to one country or central bank. When a particular country experiences a political or economic crisis, its national currency can often


Business Insider

Bitcoin is more valuable than gold — but nowhere near as stable
Business Insider
Some investors consider bitcoin a safe haven that's comparable to gold. Like gold, the digital currency isn't tied to one country or central bank. When a particular country experiences a political or economic crisis, its national currency can often ...

‘Bitcoin cash’ surges 40% in single day as investors bet on its faster processing speeds – CNBC


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Bitcoin cash’ surges 40% in single day as investors bet on its faster processing speeds
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Bitcoin cash climbed Friday to its highest since the day after bitcoin split into bitcoin and bitcoin cash. Digital currency “miners” this week mined an eight megabyte block, which allows for greater transaction speeds and “has proven that bitcoin cash

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'Bitcoin cash' surges 40% in single day as investors bet on its faster processing speeds
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Bitcoin cash climbed Friday to its highest since the day after bitcoin split into bitcoin and bitcoin cash. Digital currency "miners" this week mined an eight megabyte block, which allows for greater transaction speeds and "has proven that bitcoin cash ...

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Teenage bitcoin millionaire is back with a better Botangle … – TechCrunch


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Teenage bitcoin millionaire is back with a better Botangle …
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Erik Finman gained notoriety and a certain fame as a 14-year-old entrepreneur and bitcoin investor who’d managed to turn a $1000 investment in the..
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Teenage bitcoin millionaire is back with a better Botangle – TechCrunch


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Teenage bitcoin millionaire is back with a better Botangle
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Erik Finman gained notoriety and a certain fame as a 14-year-old entrepreneur and bitcoin investor who’d managed to turn a $1,000 investment in the cryptocurrency into more than a million dollars and a chance to never see the inside of a college
Bitcoin Teenage Millionaire Works with NASA to ‘Democratize Space’CoinTelegraph

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Teenage bitcoin millionaire is back with a better Botangle
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Erik Finman gained notoriety and a certain fame as a 14-year-old entrepreneur and bitcoin investor who'd managed to turn a $1,000 investment in the cryptocurrency into more than a million dollars and a chance to never see the inside of a college ...
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Neo-Nazi Website Banished to the Dark Web

NewsBTC_Darknet E-BookRecent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia turned violent as 32-year-old Heather Hayer was killed after a car rammed into a group of counter-protesters. The subsequent fallout triggered a debate around the responsibility that tech companies might have for enabling extremist content on their platforms. Apps like Discord already shut down Neo-Nazi servers, and recently both Google and GoDaddy pulled the plug on a widely-known extremist website, The Daily Stormer. Moving to the Dark Web The Daily Stormer had used GoDaddy as its domain registrar, but in the aftermath of the Charlottesville tragedy, the company decided to ban the website. The Daily Stormer had

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Recent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia turned violent as 32-year-old Heather Hayer was killed after a car rammed into a group of counter-protesters. The subsequent fallout triggered a debate around the responsibility that tech companies might have for enabling extremist content on their platforms. Apps like Discord already shut down Neo-Nazi servers, and recently both Google and GoDaddy pulled the plug on a widely-known extremist website, The Daily Stormer.

Moving to the Dark Web

The Daily Stormer had used GoDaddy as its domain registrar, but in the aftermath of the Charlottesville tragedy, the company decided to ban the website. The Daily Stormer had allegedly published an article celebrating Heather Hayer’s death, and that was ultimately the reason GoDaddy banned the site. GoDaddy had previously addressed The Daily Stormer’s extremist content. When asked about an article the site had published containing a threat, the company stated:

“While we detest the sentiment of this site and the article in question, we support First Amendment rights and, similar to the principles of free speech, that sometimes means allowing such tasteless, ignorant content.”

The company gave The Daily Stormer 24 hours to move, and after a plausibly fabricated hack by the hacking collective Anonymous, it chose Google Domains as its new registrar. It was promptly kicked out yet again, and along with it went its YouTube presence. Google did not specify the terms-of-service violation(s) that led to their shutdown.

The Daily Stormer subsequently found the only alternative that would allow it to survive: the deep web. The site’s status page has tweeted a link to its new .onion address. The link was also posted on Gab.ai by Andrew “weev” Auerheimer, a known neo-Nazi troll. Both Andrew and The Daily Stormer’s status page have been banned from Twitter due to the nature of their tweets.

Attempt to Resurface Under a Russian Domain

Shortly after the .onion address was announced, The Daily Stormer resurfaced under a Russian domain name, but soon afterwards both Digital Ocean and Cloudfare terminated the website after being called out on social media. At the time of writing, DailyStormer.ru is inaccessible, although the aforementioned .onion address still points to that domain.

Cloudfare, a DNS provider and proxy service that had previous protected The Daily Stormer from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, swiftly dropped the site as a client. Cloudfare’s founder Matthew Prince blogged about his decision to terminate The Daily Stormer’s account. He stated:

“The tipping point for us making this decision was that the team behind Daily Stormer made the claim that we were secretly supporters of their ideology.”

The website also turned to Russian social media website VK, widely known as Russia’s Facebook, after being banned on Facebook and Twitter. Its page does not seem to be doing so well, as it currently sits at 231 followers despite receiving huge media attention.

Indeed, the website has not been making a lot of friends. PayPal and Patreon have reiterated their stance to block payments from organizations that promote hate, violence or racial intolerance. A PayPal spokesperson stated:

“This includes organizations that advocate racist views, such as the KKK, white supremacist groups or Nazi groups.”

Things are not going well for The Daily Stormer, but that is not entirely surprising.

Zcash Foundation Offers $800,000 in New Grants to Advance the Zcash Ecosystem

The non-profit organization Zcash Foundation has announced that it is offering $80,000 worth of new grants to innovators and technologists for the advancement of the Blockc…

The non-profit organization Zcash Foundation has announced that it is offering $80,000 worth of new grants to innovators and technologists for the advancement of the Blockchain technology-based cryptocurrency Zcash.

Investor Who Predicted 2008 Mortgage Crisis Bearish About Bitcoin – CoinTelegraph


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Investor Who Predicted 2008 Mortgage Crisis Bearish About Bitcoin
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“There’s certainly a lot of bullishness about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, and that’s the case with bubbles in general. The psychology of bubbles fuels it. You just become more convinced that it’s going to work. And the higher the price goes, the more


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Investor Who Predicted 2008 Mortgage Crisis Bearish About Bitcoin
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"There's certainly a lot of bullishness about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, and that's the case with bubbles in general. The psychology of bubbles fuels it. You just become more convinced that it's going to work. And the higher the price goes, the more ...

Investor Who Predicted 2008 Mortgage Crisis Bearish About Bitcoin

Investor Peter Schiff has remained bearish about the future of Bitcoin and other digital currencies despite their sustained solid performance as of mid-August 2017.

Investor Peter Schiff has remained bearish about the future of Bitcoin and other digital currencies despite their sustained solid performance as of mid-August 2017.

Bitcoin Ransomware Education: SyncCrypt

TheMerkle SyncCrypt RansomwareIt was only a matter of time before cybercriminals started using stenography to hide malicious tools. A new ransomware variant, SyncCrypt, hides within JPEG image files. This method of distribution will only become more prevalent, since most computer users view JPEGs as completely harmless. That is no longer the case, and SyncCrypt could be a very dangerous type of ransomware if left unchecked. SyncCrypt Ransomware Lurks Within Images The distribution of ransomware in this way is not entirely new. It is often delivered through spam email campaigns, and tries to trick users into downloading a WSF file. Once the attachment is opened by the user, the SyncCrypt payload

TheMerkle SyncCrypt Ransomware

It was only a matter of time before cybercriminals started using stenography to hide malicious tools. A new ransomware variant, SyncCrypt, hides within JPEG image files. This method of distribution will only become more prevalent, since most computer users view JPEGs as completely harmless. That is no longer the case, and SyncCrypt could be a very dangerous type of ransomware if left unchecked.

SyncCrypt Ransomware Lurks Within Images

The distribution of ransomware in this way is not entirely new. It is often delivered through spam email campaigns, and tries to trick users into downloading a WSF file. Once the attachment is opened by the user, the SyncCrypt payload is downloaded and executed. This method of distributing malware has been prevalent for some time now, but it looks like SyncCrypt has a few interesting tricks up its sleeve. In fact, it masks the ransomware payload as a ZIP file embedded within JPEG images.

That sounds a lot more complicated than it actually is, however. A WSF file is a Windows Script File, which is designed to let creators execute commands once the file is opened. In this case, it downloads a website image containing an embedded ZIP file. Within this ZIP file are the SyncCrypt ransomware and other tools necessary to break down a computer’s defenses. Unfortunately, this also means the images downloaded through the WSF file will not be detected by most antivirus solutions in existence today, as it does not contain any malicious code to flag.

Distributing images with embedded ransomware is a way of using steganography for nefarious uses. In most cases, individuals utilize steganography to hide information or data within images. This can only be done by including marginal amounts of data per image, lest the original file be corrupted in the process. The WSF files distributed through this particular email campaign run a JavaScript file to download images. Directly opening the download URL will just show a legitimate image which does not contain any malicious payload whatsoever.

However, taking a closer look at the image reveals it contains a ZIP archive containing the sync.exe file. There is also an HTML file and a PNG file included in this package. As one might expect, these three files are the main components of the SyncCrypt ransomware strain. It is highly probable that SyncCrypt is a test of sorts to gauge the efficacy of this method when it comes to distributing ransomware and other types of malware. This method is not commonly used currently, but once criminals hear of its potential for success that situation will change.

Every good type of ransomware comes with its own demand for a Bitcoin payment. In the case of SyncCrypt, victims must first open the AMMOUNT.txt file found in the README folder on their desktop. The exact amount of Bitcoins — it seems to hover around 0.1 BTC right now — must be sent to the address provided in the README file. Once the payment is made, victims are required to send an email to three different addresses containing a key and transaction ID. After that, they will automatically receive the decryption key necessary to restore their files, or so the criminals claim.

Unfortunately, there is no free way to decrypt files encrypted by SyncCrypt at this point in time. Until that changes, users who deal with this ransomware should either attempt to restore files from a backup or take the data loss and format their hard drive accordingly. It does not appear SyncCrypt removes shadow volume copies, which means data recovery should be possible, at least in theory. It is unclear if this ransomware is currently targeting specific areas of the world, but it is safe to say every computer user is a potential victim until proven otherwise.