Bitfortip: Combining ‘Yahoo! Answers’ with Digital Currency
While community-driven knowledge markets have been around since Yahoo!, Bitfortip, is a new service that allows users to post questions and pay Bitcoin to people who submit the best answers. The site was created by Greek tech geek Panagiotis Pollis when he was searching online to find a T-shirt identical to one he misplaced. He told CoinTelegraph: Each question is automatically shared on the website’s Twitter and Facebook pages. The website’s simple motto reads, “Get paid for answering questions,”and it provides an alternative to the usual online surveys that offer to pay people for....
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A massive data breach at Yahoo, and IPFS prefers Ethereum over Bitcoin. Want to catch up on your latest digital currency and tech news? Take a gander at the stories below. YAHOO. Believing Yahoo to have been the victim of a massive 2014 hack, executives of the Internet and email giant sent out a notice last Thursday evening warning users of a potential data breach. Thus far, it appears up to 500 million users have been compromised, and the hack is believed to have stemmed from state-sponsored actors. Presently, the company is working with law enforcement agents to figure out just what....
Yahoo Finance, a popular hub for casual and professional traders, has begun adding bitcoin prices to their extensive index of information (see the picture above). Available under the ticker BTCUSD=X [link], the page will provide users with the latest price (not that they couldn't get it elsewhere), along with news items, as any finance website would show. But it's an interesting development, with many users in the community taking this as a good sign in the ever-developing bitcoin story. Surely, Yahoo's stamp of approval (which could be seen as further legitimizing the digital currency)....
This article has been updated with Yahoo's comment. Access to bitcoin price data in the world of mainstream finance has taken another big step in the last 24 hours. Following Bloomberg's recent addition of bitcoin to its trading terminals in late April, and its inclusion on computational knowledge engine WolframAlpha, Yahoo! Finance has followed suit and now displays the BTC/USD price along with its many other listed fiat currencies. A Yahoo spokesperson told CoinDesk that move was driven by the site's users, many of whom had requested the addition of the feature: "We've added bitcoin to....
For four days last week Yahoo's European servers were the equivalent of a cyber Typhoid Mary, spreading disease to anyone who came near. Yahoo was the victim of a major security breach, which caused its servers to send out millions of malware-laden ads to an estimated two million European users. Suspicions were first raised by Dutch security outfit Fox IT, which estimated that Yahoo's servers were responsible for 27,000 malware infections every hour the malware was live on Yahoo's website. Yahoo confirmed the embarrassing attack in a statement: "From December 31 to January 3 on our....
Yahoo has finally revealed that it was indeed hacked in 2014 after user credentials goes up for sale on the darknet. It’s now official, Yahoo was indeed hacked! The reports of possible security breach have been floating around since last month. The company has now officially announced that the platform suffered The reports of a possible security breach have been floating around the internet for months now. A recent announcement by the company confirms these reports. According to Yahoo, the platform was hacked in late 2014, compromising over 500 million user accounts. The hackers have....