Internet Source Code Sells As An NFT for $5.4 million

The source code for the World Wide Web has been sold by the inventor for $5.4 million. The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has sold an NFT of the web's source code for $5.4 million at fine art auction house Sotheby’s. The piece titled ‘This Changed Everything’ includes a time-stamped file of the source code's 9,555 lines, a high-fidelity image, a 30-minute animation of the code being written, along with a letter written by Berners-Lee.While $5.4M is a significant sum, it’s a far cry from the $69 million record set in March for Beeple’s Everydays and less than some....

To put this potential into perspective, Mirai is capable of pulling in several hundreds of thousands of bots from IoT devices. Security researchers have come across the source code for the Internet of Things botnet called Mirai. This botnet has been used to launch major DDoS attacks against various websites. Such a powerful tool could be used to shut down nearly any public website in existence today. Now that the source code has been leaked, it becomes a lot easier to render the botnet useless. Connecting millions of devices to the Internet sounds great on paper, but it creates a big....

According to a report by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) along with IMRB International, the two organizations forecast that Internet users in India are expected to reach 302 million by the end of the year. The forecast is a 32 percent increase from the 213 million Indian Internet users at the end of 2013. Currently, the ranking puts China in the first place with 600 million Internet users, with the United States at 279 million Internet users and India following closely behind and battling for second place. Reported by The Hindu news source, upon release of the report....

During the last few weeks, the former Ripple executive Jed McCaleb has reportedly been selling millions of XRP tokens and every sale has been monitored by the public. On Sunday, McCaleb dumped another 38 million XRP worth $22 million after selling 95 million XRP last week worth $56 million today. Ripple Cofounder Sells 38 million Coins on Valentine’s Day The cofounder and former Ripple executive, Jed McCaleb has been a topical conversation in recent days since the founder has been selling a lot of XRP. News.Bitcoin.com has been covering a number of McCaleb’s XRP sales in....

The FBI is not bidding on stolen National Security Agency (NSA) source code with bitcoins seized from Silk Road, contrary to a widely reported allegation. That’s according to security experts interviewed by The Hill. The allegation emerged when a bitcoin user sent money to both an NSA source code account and the seized bitcoin account, but no money changed between the accounts, according to experts. NSA Source Code Hacked. Last week, a group called the Shadow Brokers claimed to have hacked NSA source code and offered to sell hacked source code in exchange for the most generous financial....