The Fappening, Brought to You By The Information Marketplace
Combined with the emerging information markets, crypto anarchy will create a liquid market for any and all material which can be put into words and pictures. —Timothy C. May, “The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto” Just when things had got about as boring as they could possibly get, the celebrity nude photo leaks came along to give the world an inkling of the new world that Bitcoin ushers in. After speaking to an informant who watched the Fappening unfold on 4chan, I can report a theory which some 4chan anons believe explains what happened and which I agree seems to be the most likely....
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FTX Debuts NFT Marketplace
FTX, one of the most successful derivatives exchanges, has announced today the launch of a new NFT marketplace embedded in its trading platform. The....
A website subtitled "You are going to hate it" is certainly an attention catcher, and the proposal of Slur.io catches attention very much indeed: Slur.io will be an open source, decentralized and anonymous marketplace for the selling of secret information in exchange for Bitcoin. Slur will operate over the Tor network. Both buyers and sellers are fully anonymous, and there are no restrictions on the data that is auctioned. Sellers will auction secret information to the highest bidder, who will receive exclusive access to the decryption key. There will be an option for crowd bidders pool....
Bitcoin marketplace Bitmit is apparently closing their doors on the 20th of December - Friday - according to a notification banner on the website's homepage. "Bitmit is shutting down on 2013 December 20th. We will leave the site some more days online because some users still need access! Please complete your orders and withdraw your funds asap!" The news is rather strange, particularly because there are few details surrounding the shut down. Upon clicking the "Read more" button, very little other information is provided. A request from newsBTC for more information on the sudden closing was....
Although the cryptocurrency has been a preferred payment method among Darknet vendors for some time, it looks like things are only getting worse. The dark web remains a premier marketplace for stolen credentials and other information these days. With the 2016 tax season in full effect in the US, scammers are collecting information at every possible turn. With the stolen information, criminals can commit tax refund fraud. Even people who aren’t bothered to steal the information themselves, buying the details from the deep web has become relatively easy these days. It is evident the 2016 US....
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