Talking Crypto — Week in Review #2
This week’s top stories
Bitcoin Bomb Threats
Bitcoin scams took a new, evil twist this week, with people all over the US receiving email bomb threats. The emails asked to be paid $20,000 in BTC, and if not paid, it would trigger the bomb. This quickly defused as enforcement agencies found that there were no devices to be found and that once the time limit was done, nothing happened.
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Coinbase and PayPal are teaming up!
“U.S. customers can instantly withdraw Coinbase balances to PayPal, providing even faster access to their funds through one of the world’s easiest and most widely-used payment platforms. These withdrawals are not only fast; they’re free and incur no fees.”
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TRON Foundation Usage Jumps 48% as DApps become all the rage
The TRC20 token exchange was launched this week. The new ERC20 like token is powering the explosive growth in TRONs DApp market. Depsite the bear market and the low level of interest in Ethereum based DApps, the increase shows that there is still a big desire for smart contract platforms. This is all building up to the start of the TRON Accelerator, a massive program for fueling the creation of new DApps on the TRON platform. The last submissions are due January 4th.
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Jameson Lopp answers “Who Controls Bitcoin Core?”
In this excellent breakdown of the submission process, GitHub, and PGP keys, Jameson Lopp sets the record straight on who controls Bitcoin. It’s a fantastic read if you are interested in learning more about why Bitcoin is ultimately controled by no one, and it gives fantatsic detail into the steps that have been taken to ensure that even the employees of Github can’t threaten the projects survival.
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