The Pirate Saga: And So It Ends
Laying rest to one and a half weeks of suspense, yesterday pirateat40, the pseudonymous operator of the Bitcoin Savings and Trust investment scheme, has officially announced that he is in default1. BST was a high-yield investment scheme that opened in November 20112and offered its customers interest rates of up to 7% per week, claiming to be able to....
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Bitcoinist spoke with the Dutch Pirate Party Leader Ancilla van de Leest on their recent attempt to pay the Election Council with Bitcoin, their appeal with younger voters, and why they believe everybody should be free to choose the currency they want to use. Dutch Pirate Party: ‘We Need a Viable Alternative to Fiat’. Bitcoinist: Why was the Netherlands Pirate Party founded? What issues does it focus on? Ancilla van de Leest (AVL): The Dutch Pirate Party is one of the 40 different National Pirate Parties worldwide. The first Pirate Party was founded in Sweden in 2006 as a reaction to the....
Yesterday the Pirate Bay was raided by Swedish police and taken down. This isn't the first time that the Pirate Bay is taken down by the police, and my guess is that the site will be back soon, but the raid shows that a free Web with central point failures can't survive the mounting wave of joint attacks by governments and large corporations. A few weeks ago Peter Sunde, co-founder of the Pirate Bay was released from prison after more than five months behind bars. Speaking with Torrent Freak, Sunde said that the Pirate Bay has served its purpose and perhaps it should stay down and make way....
Popular file-sharing site Old Pirate Bay is to hand out $100,000-worth of rewards in bitcoin to people who assist with the site's development. The digital currency will be shared between developers, moderators and contributors based upon their performance. The site will distribute the first $10,000 starting next month and will expand the scheme in March following the introduction of new features. Tribute site gaining popularity. Old Pirate Bay was launched following the takedown of the original Pirate Bay (TPB) in early December, following a series of police raids in Sweden. It is not....
The Pirate Bay has been the world’s most popular torrent web portal for the last eighteen years. Despite a few hiccups during that time, the site remains accessible via mirrors and proxy websites. In addition to remaining online, Pirate Bay has been accepting bitcoin for donations since 2013 acquiring more than $4.5 million worth since then. The Pirate Bay’s Bitcoin Stash Since 2003, when it was founded by the Swedish think tank Piratbyrån, the Pirate Bay has been the most popular, and perhaps the most beloved torrent website in the world. The web portal is basically an....
A growing number of peer-to-peer file-sharing sites -- among them the notorious The Pirate Bay -- is starting to accept bitcoin donations from their users. The main page of The Pirate Bay's website now lists a bitcoin address, presumably for donations. OpenBitTorrent has also joined the party, as has PublicBitTorrent. Istole.it also features a bitcoin address. As of yet, though, there is no sign of bitcoin adoption at Isohunt or its sister sites. Bitcoin's perceived anonymity makes it the perfect donation mechanism for file-sharing operations, many of which track copyrighted content being....