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Starbucks wants to accept crypto - not bitcoin
Here's our initiative to get STEEM on that list. Everyone send in your suggestion, lets make our presence known :)..
@kingscrown/starbucks-wants-to-accept-cryptocurrencies-lets-get-steem-there
Other than STEEM, possible partners could be XLM, LTC, ETH (if they DONT know what they're doing), and in the future EOS. The adoption is NEIGH!
Shultz says,
“I’m bringing this up because as we think about the future of our company and the future of consumer behavior, I personally believe that there is going to be one or a few legitimate, trusted digital currencies off of the blockchain technology”
...“... I don’t believe that Bitcoin is going to be a currency today or in the future, I’m talking about the new technology of blockchain and the possibility of what could happen not in the near term”.
Do your part, go to https://ideas.starbucks.com/ and suggest STEEM as a payment option!
Will take 1 minute! And benefits our platform.
PhotoCred: Cointelegraph.com
Youtube hacked? Mining scripts in adds!
Scripts in youtube adds were found that mined BTC through an attack.
Google responded promptly with the following statement:
"the ads were blocked in less than two hours and the malicious actors were quickly removed from our platforms."
This is going to be more prevelant..
Black hats always look for free meal tickets. And go after the biggest fish first! It's a surprise to me that antivirus software was the one to detect this first, instead of google themselves! This is crazy.. And shows why we need a decentralized browser as well. That pays US for advertisement. cough BAT.
Photo Credit: cointelegraph.com
Tether & their Auditors decease relationship
This is speculation as no independant confirmations have been received however,
"Reports surfaced Saturday night that Tether and their auditor, Friedman LLP, had dissolved their relationship. Due to the weekend, independent confirmation has not been received. Calls to Friedman LLP have gone to voicemail." quote from cointelegraph.com
This wouldn't be surprising, this could very easily happen if the Audit company did not take bait to 'pad' the numbers.
I have a feeling something fishy is occuring here. And this may be a huge lesson for many in crypto. KEEP YOUR HANDS OUT OF THE TETHER IF YOU WANT TO BE SAFE.
Photo Credit: Cointelegraph.com
530$ mln stolen XEM tokens trackable
Developers behind NEM created an automated tagging system to track down the coins. The developers could not execute a hard fork because it is not a security error on NEM team's part, but on the exchange Coinchecks part that went through the biggest hack in crypto history.
Tracking the tokens to a particular wallet means very little.
The hackers have many options to go underground.. And do little.
I hope for the sake of the exchange, and the users that they are triangulated and caught. May the coins be returned. (very unlikely)
However, let this be a case study.. To keep YOUR coins. Exchanges are not much better than banks.. And not insured.
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