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• Crypto Currently: Opening Prices for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Auroracoin

  By raincoaster on July 30, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

    Let the nightshine in! It’s time to let Auroracoin light up our lives! Yeah, I’ve been writing ad copy today. How can you tell? Anyhoodle, in today’s mainstream and alt cryptocurrency roundup we’re featuring Auroracoin, a rebel Icelandic (but… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber News from the Web

  By raincoaster on July 29, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  All’s fair in love, war, and the Cryptosphere, kittens. Today we’ve got a Bitcoin and Middle East-rich roundup that includes the evergreen “How to Own a Police Car” handbook. What could POSSIBLY go wrong? Look, there IS TOO money in… Read More ›

• Scam o’ the Day: Pen your way to the Penitentiary

  By raincoaster on July 29, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. The time would, presumably, have been sometime after Happy Hour, as you’d have to be drunk or crazy to think this would actually work. Still, we like the audacity of… Read More ›

• God Hates Bitcoin

  By raincoaster on July 29, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Okay, that’s it. I’m moving all my money to Cthulhu-based cryptocurrency. Tucson, Arizona’s only Bitcoin ATM was struck by lightning last Friday. Tucson remains stuck in the dark ages ever since, unable to obtain Bitcoin except through such venerable, traditional… Read More ›

• Crypto Currently: Prices for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin and Reddcoin

  By raincoaster on July 29, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Who knew Dogecoin had an arch-rival? Well, it does. Dogecoin’s success is due in significant if not whole part to its adoption by journalist-homework-doing-machine Reddit, but now Reddit itself is getting in on the action. So it comes to this. Bitcoin:… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber News from the Web

  By raincoaster on July 28, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  What a busy, busy day we’ve had today; if the rest of the week keeps up like this, we’ll have to hire PMC‘s (Private Media Contractors) to get all our articles done! So, so much news today; so, so many… Read More ›

• Superpower for Hire: Rise of the Private Military

  By raincoaster on July 28, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  Here’s a really interesting video from VICE (yes, VICE, I know) on the recent rise of PMCs, private military contractors, aka mercenaries. Why now? Who hires them? Who are they ultimately working for? Why would we fight wars with PMCs… Read More ›

• What to Do When Someone Steals Your Stuff

  By raincoaster on July 28, 2014 • ( 7 )

  

  This article is just what it says on the tin. How to bring the pain when you find some mealy-mouthed thief has attempted to use your own material on his site, with OR without attribution. Fair use is fair use,… Read More ›

• Crypto Currently: Cryptocurrency prices for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and RonPaulCoin

  By raincoaster on July 28, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Happy Monday, y’all! Time to check the current prices for some of the web’s top, and one of the web’s outlier, cryptocurrencies. Brace your wallets, the weekend market sucked donkeys! Bitcoin: The closer we get to resolving the MtGox situation,… Read More ›

• SCHWA the movie: Watch it in full

  By raincoaster on July 26, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Aliens! Conspiracies! Surveillance! The Panopticon! Shadowy corporate overlords with murky and malevolent agendas! Honestly, what’s not to like? SCHWA is a twenty-year-old phenomenon from the mind of William Barker. First surfacing in semi-underground zines like BoingBoing, it became, for a… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber Headlines from Around the World

  By raincoaster on July 25, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  It’s been a long week, full of plane crashes, buck passing, spies, spooks, hackers, Anons, and Ceiling Cat alone knows what else. Here’s our last roundup for this week, something to enjoy while you lounge poolside, or peruse idly as… Read More ›

• Op/Ed: Anonifamous: The challenges of an idea in the wake of celebrity

  By raincoaster on July 25, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Thanks to supporter and international journalist Curt Hopkins for the reprint rights to this meditation on the meaning of Anonymous in an age of Celebrity. We are very glad he allowed us to repost this from his website at MorphemeTales…. Read More ›

• Crypto Currently: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Potcoin prices for July 25

  By raincoaster on July 25, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Yes. Yes, my friends, it has come to this. Potcoin. If there’s one thing my IRL friends know about me, it’s that I cannot abide the reek of the weed, so just imagine the depths to which I have sunk… Read More ›

• Neil McDonald: Grey Hat Black Listed

  By raincoaster on July 25, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  A computer hacking statute codified in 1961 (yes, before what we think of computers existed) is being wielded against Kiwi grey hat hacker Neil McDonald. His mistake was (in the short form) offering a company information about its weaknesses when… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Top Crypto and Cyber Headlines for July 24

  By raincoaster on July 24, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  This week just gets crazier and crazier, people! After everyone got back from HOPE X looks like they all decided to release those reports they’d been sitting on, so we have quite a miscellany for you today; from a car hacking manual to the latest on the most-dragged-out-death-since-Boromir case of MtGox.

  Enjoy?