Kim Dotcom Looks to Revive Megaupload, with Bitcoin Helping
Controversial online content entrepreneur Kim Dotcom’s announcement that he plans to reintroduce the Megaupload site next year and hinting that it will accept bitcoin has created a stir among bitcoiners. Bitcoiners have varying views about Megaupload 2.0’s chances for success and about being associated with a file sharing platform that ran afoul of the law. Dotcom’s legal battle with the U.S. government continues. Megaupload, Bitcoin. Coupled. Dotcom tweeted this weekend, “I can tell you that Megaupload and Bitcoin had sex. There is a pregnancy and I have a feeling that the baby will be....
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Kim Dotcom has revealed the reason for delaying his Megaupload 2/ Bitcache unveiling was due to a failed merger with a Canadian company SecureCom. Dotcom had promised the reveal Jan. 19 but said that there had been an “expected hiccup.” He added that there was “nothing to worry about” and it was “just more of the same.” However, it later became clear that information about the projects would not be forthcoming until later, with Dotcom promising “screenshots” of Bitcache in February. Dotcom: ‘Go get some Bitcoin’. He added that Megaupload 2 was “the game changer the Internet is waiting....
As Bitcoin.com previously reported, a good portion of the cryptocurrency community has been focused lately on the tweets of Kim Dotcom. On the anniversary of authorities seizing Megaupload, Dotcom told the public he had an announcement about his new Megaupload and Bitcache project. A few days later Dotcom revealed there would be a significant delay. Kim....
Kim Dotcom is a well-known person in the cyber world as the founder of the now defunct file-sharing service Megaupload. Now, Dotcom is not only creating a new sharing service called Mega 2.0 but has made it well known that Bitcoin will be a major part of the platform. Mega 2.0, Bitcache, MegaNet. The new service that Dotcom has been working on called....
An extradition trial over Kim Dotcom and three colleagues in Auckland, New Zealand began on Monday amid controversy. He even brought his own chair. Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom appears in court to fight U. S. extradition: http://t.co/eERBd8Wct8 pic.twitter.com/INmk6e4QCb. - Reuters Tech News (@ReutersTech) September 21, 2015. Dotcom, along with two executives for file-sharing site Megaupload, were indicted by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia. The indictment, dating back to January 2012, led to a FBI shutdown of Megaupload and then a dramatic raid at the Internet....
Megaupload will be back soon, and this time, it will involve Bitcoin. Kim Dotcom, founder of the former popular filesharing website, announced the planned union of the site’s second coming with cryptocurrency via a saucy metaphor on Twitter: Megaupload’s long-awaited resurrection. After a shutdown by the US government and unsuccessful attempts at a relaunch over the following years, Megaupload 2.0 will be back next year. It will include over 100 gigabytes of free storage, no data transfer limits, and on-the-fly encryption. Additionally, Dotcom plans to deploy the original Megaupload user....