The Terminators: A Short Story

Simply an idea or a story in itself can go a long way for people. Just look at this story about an invisible sculpture being sold for $18,000. The work, titled Io Sono or “I Am,”, by the Italian Salvatore Garau, doesn’t exist… except in the artist’s imagination. This is the case for most NFTs […]

Think you're having a rough Monday morning? Probably not as bad as the guy in this next story and his mistake of epic proportions. Up on the bitcoin page at Reddit.com is a story that's no short of eye-catching. It starts with said user trying to send a bitcoin address funds. Except - oh dear - it's the wrong address. It's happened before, and it will continue to happen in the future, likely. But the amount sent is what's really eye-popping. In the words of the original poster: "If you just received 800 Bitcoin out of the blue, it was from me". You read that right. Eight hundred bitcoins.....

CoinEX.pw has confirmed it recently suffered a hack resulting in the theft of all the bitcoins in its possession. The digital currency exchange has assured customers that it is going to cover the losses out of its own pocket, although it didn't confirm the total number of bitcoins lost. In a post on the Bitcoin Talk forum, a CoinEX.pw representative under the username 'erundook' said: "Long story short: yes, our wallet server got hacked and all funds were withdrawn." He also asked users to keep calm and asserted the company's operators are not "doing a runner". Erundook (real name Vitaly....

This is part 3 of The Downfall of Bitcoin: The Need For Responsible Mining, if you have not read part one and part two yet, do so here: Part 1, Part 2 before proceeding to read this part of the story. The following is a work of fiction, the events below have never happened. This article serves as a means to stress the importance of miningresponsibility on both the miner's end and the pool owners end and offers a situation in which the downfall of Bitcoin could occur. Any companies in the following article are fictional and this story does not pertain to any companies in existence today.....

The existence of Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous founding programmer behind the Bitcoin project, has long interested artists and writers of all genres. In the below short film produced by Mike Anzel, a real-life Satoshi Nakamoto is sought after in much the same way he is "hunted" in last year's comic, The Hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto. Except in the film, it's not a group of gangster's and cyberpunks hunting the creator, but a news crew. Also read: Bitcoin Film Review: The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin (2014). In order to avoid any spoilers on this very short story, we'll just let you enjoy the....