Sam Maloney, creator of MORPHiS and DPUSH, shot dead by London Police
Sam Maloney, a 35 year-old programmer and father of two, was the creator and core developer of MORPHiS, a system for distributed file storage and encrypted messaging. Sam Maloney was killed on December 23, 2016 in what was the first fatal London (Canada) police shooting in 17 years. Maloney, a 35 year-old programmer and father of two, was the creator and core developer of MORPHiS, a system for distributed file storage and encrypted messaging. He also invented DPUSH (DMAIL), a decentralized spam resistant unsolicited messaging protocol based on Proof-of-Work. He had been working on....
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Australian police have raided the Sydney home and office of Craig Steven Wright, the man alleged to be bitcoin's inventor as the anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. Australian Federal police in Sydney have raided the home and office of Craig Wright who is identified as the creator of bitcoin. According to The Guardian, more than 10 police personnel arrived in Gordon, a Sydney suburb to raid a home belonging to Craig Wright. The raid was conducted not long after WIRED and Gizmodo revealed investigations leading the publications to believe they may have discovered bitcoin's creator. The Guardian....
Democracy is defined as a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. This makes election a very important aspect of human existence. Weakness of existing models. The struggle for power and control has seen the weaknesses of existing methods of the electoral processes being explored, exposing the system to the plague of accusations of illegitimacy. Since the advent of the Blockchain and immutable data technology, there have been innovations of voting systems claiming to make it trustless, transparent and....
U.K. police have revealed how much cryptocurrency they have seized in the past five years in response to Freedom of Information requests. The London Metropolitan Police seized more bitcoins than other police boroughs.
UK Police Reveal Information About Seized Crypto
Twelve of the U.K.’s 43 police forces have seized cryptocurrency worth approximately £322 million ($435 million) in criminal investigations in the last five years, New Scientist reported Thursday, citing Freedom of Information (FOI) requests it submitted.
Bitcoin made up 99.9% of the....
Police in Australia have raided the home of Craig Wright, the tech entrepreneur who reports suggest may be one of two individuals behind the creation of bitcoin's protocol. The Guardian reported that police entered Wright's home on Wednesday afternoon, hours after the release of two articles, one by Wired and another by Gizmodo, that published information linking the 44-year-old to the digital currency's anonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto. The news outlet indicated 10 police officers visited the house at 1:30pm local time, and that these agents were seen searching cupboards and areas of....
As we reported yesterday here at NewsBTC, the hot new rumor in the Bitcoin space is that a relative unknown, Craig Steven Wright, may be Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of the digital currency Bitcoin. This idea was spread by WIRED Magazine and Gizmodo on Tuesday, but the rumor may have been started by Wright, himself, after his recent Skype call to Bitcoin Investor's Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Regardless of the origin, this new shot of fame coincides with a fair amount of personal turmoil, as Wright's home has just been been the subject of a police raid in Australia. Reuters reports....