IDK, the article cites an established CEO of an italian BTC startup as a source. normally, yeah, but I doub't he'd be retweeting it like crazy if it were bunk

well, That was unexpected. Vatican City is launching a Coin that's open ledger and non-permissioned. Apparently they've been keepingit under wraps too. Thoughts?

It's explained better here, but the essence of it is that the Brave browser tracks every detail of the user's actions, down to what the mouse hovers over and such, natively, and stores the info locally. While Brave Inc doesn't technically collect this information, they still have access to it and will be leveraging it for sale to their nebulous "partners" now and in the future. I would not trust these people with any amount of Bitcoin, or provide such a centralized, desirable attack surface to would-be intruders on my machine. Don't believe me, give their FAQ a careful read. the fact they're marketing their product as private and secure is something that needs to be talked about, and people need to be informed about the privacy implications associated with the product.

I wouldn't bet on the browser's Privacy just yet. The gist is that Brave Inc. doesn't collect information, but the browser definitely does. On a massive scale. They just offload the analytics to the user's computer and reap the benefits while saving on server costs. Worth a discussion here for sure. read the FAQ on their main site if you don't believe me.


It's just the one mozilla guy that got booted for funding anti-gay lobbies, if I remember correctly.

you can spend any amount, though I think the minimum is .0005 to prevent spam. you can always ask the creator about the charities on twitter, its right there on the stream splash page.

I stumbled upon this today: Bitcoin Plays Pokemon. It's a charity stream that lets you play pokemon in the same way Twitch Plays Pokemon does, only you make moves by donating BTC to charity. Pretty cool. Twitch stream here

I've seen a lot of posts here about it, and I did on my old GPU mining rig. I'm sure it applys more to altcoin miners but the fact pool info is saved in plaintext in a lot of cases makes this a huge concern for the folks that do.

There's been a breach on the linux mint servers: the hacked install .iso has a baked-in unix trojan and if you have your pool info saved in plaintext (as most mining packages require you to in .conf files) tour entire platform is at risk. if you have a recent install or upgrade this DEFINITELY concerns you

http://bitcoinist.net/linux-mint-backdoor-puts-users-and-bitcoin-miners-at-risk/

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994

if you want to continue using mint download it from the torrent, if you're fed up like I am there's plenty of other options