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Ukrainian Warehouse Raid reveals Thousands Of PS4 Pros

B. Simmons July 15, 2021

They clearly weren’t playing the expanded Free Trial of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV. Recently, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) raided a warehouse that was allegedly stealing electricity for the purposes...

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FaZe Clan Kicks Kay, Suspends Jarvis, Nikan And Teeqo Over Potential Save The Kids Cryptocurrency Scam

B. Simmons July 2, 2021

(Not financial advice) FaZe Clan has punished four of their members for involvement in a shady cryptocurrency “pump-and-dump” scheme. In June of this year, FaZe Clan’s Kay, Jarvis, Nikan and Teeqo were involved in...

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U.K. Police Raid Bitcoin Mining Facility They Thought Was A Weed Farm

B. Simmons May 28, 2021

Would’ve been funny if they had 420 rigs mining, though. So the whole NFT thing really dredged this up, but cryptocurrency is a massive energy drain. Not just mining (which is an even larger...

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Cryptocurrency Exchange Can’t Pay Clients After Founder Dies With Only Password

B. Simmons February 4, 2019

I guess you can take it with you; you just have no use for it. Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX has found themselves in a bit of a pickle. They can’t repay over $190 million...

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Ripple Gives $29 Million in its Cryptocurrency to Schools

B. Simmons April 1, 2018

A nice gesture. Look, I’m just about this far away from being openly hostile to cryptocurrency. I think I wind up with all of the articles about it because our EiC thinks it’s funny...

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Atari is Making Their Own Cryptocurrencies

B. Simmons February 17, 2018

Yes, plural. Looks like Atari is also getting on the crypto band wagon. Atari plans to partner with a company (Infinity Networks) that’s building a “blockchain-based digital entertainment platform.” Yes, and according to Fortune, you’re...

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Now YouTube Ads have Malware that Mines Cryptocurrency

B. Simmons January 27, 2018

… A lust for gold cryptocurreny is a powerful intoxicant. And that is precisely the problem for YouTube right now. Several bad actors have managed to get adspace on the platform that allowed them...

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NVIDIA would like Retailers to Prioritize Gamers for Graphics Cards

B. Simmons January 23, 2018

(Cryptocurrency) Miners can get the black lung for all they care. Cryptocurrency has accomplished a number of things. Like create an entire economy of its own. Put an absolute expiration date on rewatching Almost...

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Robot Cache Like Steam, But With Cryptocurrency

B. Simmons January 18, 2018

What could possibly go wrong? Robot Cache is aiming to take on Steam in the online PC games market. And to that end, it’s going to do something even Steam no longer does, and...

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Bitcoin Drops Below $10,000

B. Simmons January 17, 2018

“How are you so flush, man?“ Look, I’ll be the first to admit that me and the cryptocurrency thing don’t really mix. But hey, I still get stuck with it. Which means we all...

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Dogecoin is Now Worth Over $1 Billion

B. Simmons January 6, 2018

Such worth, much wow Dogecoin is basically what happens when someone decides to make a cryptocurrency on a dare. But that hasn’t exactly stopped it from reaching a value of $1.1 billion, with each...

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Estonia Rolling Out “Estcoin” in Bid to Become ICO Hub

B. Simmons December 19, 2017

Doesn’t sound remotely shady at all. Estonia wants your ICO, and they’re starting their own cryptocurrency to prove it. Dubbed Estcoin, it may well be the first government-backed cryptocurrency. There’s probably a reason why....