Coinbase Helps FBI Shut Down KickAssTorrents
On July 20, U.S. government officials seized the website KickAssTorrents (KAT) and arrested the alleged founder of the site, Artem Vaulin. The site facilitated pirated seeding and downloading of copyrighted material through various BitTorrent platforms. KickAssTorrents Seized, Probably Won’t Come Back. The KAT website was created in 2009 and was one of....
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Tor has been embroiled in several controversies in the past few weeks, but it is still widely considered the best option for circumventing state censorship on the internet. Due to recent draconian blockades of peer-to-peer filesharing by the UK, Norway, and others, KickAssTorrents, the most visited public tracker on the web, has opened up a hidden service mirror of their website to help those in the growing list of countries that enable internet censorship access their massive repository of torrents. KickAssTorrents Has An Official Tor Hidden Service. This news also comes with the....
Coinbase has introduced Coinbase Buy Widget to make it easier for users to buy bitcoin, the company announced in a blog. The hosted widget can be embedded and is configurable. The widget enables users to buy bitcoin using debit cards, delivers bitcoin to a specified address instantly, and provides a seamless user experience. Users can have bitcoin sent directly to the address the app provides. New And Existing Users. The widget offers a debit card form and an easy way to create a Coinbase account that will be especially helpful to new users. Existing Coinbase users will be able to make....
Over the last year, institutional investors have been flocking toward crypto assets like bitcoin and after Microstrategy’s initial bitcoin purchase, the trending institutional demand for crypto started swelling. On Tuesday, the San Francisco trading platform Coinbase published a study that details how the company helped the firm One River Asset Management make “one of the largest digital asset trades in history.” Not too long ago, Microstrategy purchased bitcoin (BTC) for treasury reserves, and ever since then, a great number of well known firms have swapped cash and....
Bitcoiners who use Tor be warned! An obscure change to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure will automatically take effect on December 1 unless Congress blocks it. No Warrant Required. A revised Rule 41 would allow the FBI to use a single warrant to hack an indefinite number of computers anywhere in the world. To hack a computer today, the FBI....
Bitcoin company Coinbase has announced that Coinbase customers will have their fees waived when buying and selling Bitcoin with Euros until the end of this week. The announcement comes in light of the Greece crisis which has banks shut down and ATM withdrawals limited to 60 Euros per day in order to avert a banking collapse. In an official blog post, Coinbase stated: "We feel that all Europeans should educate themselves on the benefit of using a global currency that is not controlled by any particular country or company. As part of our effort to make it easy for anyone to buy and sell....