Rachel Siegel is back with a new video and this one is actually going viral. Inspired by Rebecca Black’s surprise viral hit from 2011, “Friday,” Siegel and her Crypto, Finally YouTube channel have released “BitPay.” Modern Consensus broke the story on Siegel and crypto, finally to the world last week, with “Forget environmental damage, this is the worst thing you’ll see about crypto in a long time”, the first article written about Siegel’s videos. The newest video has hundreds of retweets, including from the creator of the popular Chapo Trap House podcast, Will Menaker. The video doesn’t disappoint. Some lyrical highlights: “Everyone’s adopting Bitcoin / Don’t be a weirdo” “Bitpay…
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Forget environmental damage, this is the worst thing you’ll see about crypto in a long time
Just a woman in XRP underwear writhing on the steps of the New York Stock Exchange
What a bunch of weirdos humanity is. We’re all out here trying to scratch together a living, and Rachel Siegel—the woman behind a truly remarkable new video “Top Six”—is no different. As crypto money continues to bring out our bizarre instincts, Siegel produced her rewritten version of Britney Spears’ “Toxic” with a focus on the top six cryptocurrencies. “Oh / The runs and the dips / I’m holding tight / Your top six, your dipping under” The video has been making the rounds on Reddit, although Siegel explained it’s just a first attempt at building an audience with viral videos about cryptocurrency. “My thesis is: there’s no way to get a common consumer…
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Canadian crypto exchange hacked, all assets stolen, internet cries ‘Scam!’
MapleChange shutters website and social accounts after security breach cleans out user wallets
A hack at a small Canadian crypto exchange left its users holding the bag Sunday, as MapleChange announced it had lost all its assets and would not be able to immediately refund its users. On Sunday afternoon, the exchange, which has Edmonton, Alberta listed as its location on Twitter, announced that a security breach allowed someone to steal all the assets it held. MapleChange added that it would not be able to refund the cryptocurrency until it investigates what happened. The hack followed MapleChange’s announcement Saturday on Twitter that it had upgraded its server and launched a version 2.0.0. https://twitter.com/MapleChangeEx/status/1056582662435954688 It’s unclear how MapleChange’s investigation is going, as the exchange…
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Blockchain cofounder Kathleen Breitman says she is ‘cool as a f—ing cucumber’; launches Twitter tirade when challenged
Tezos’ cofounder just delivered a strange, profanity-laced interview and then flipped out on Twitter when criticized about it
On Thursday, blockchain publication Breaker posted a flattering 6,700-word interview with Kathleen Breitman, cofounder of the controversial Tezos blockchain. Launched officially last month, Tezos bills itself as a new blockchain that can enable smart contract execution, but with a built-in governance system designed to avoid hard forks in its rules. During her Q&A with Breaker, Breitman aggressively defended the work of the Tezos Foundation, peppering her comments with invective and swears that raised some eyebrows online. Then Breitman and her cofounder at Tezos, Arthur Breitman (her husband), took to Twitter seemingly with the goal of burning off the eyebrows of those who’d raised them. That's because @mdudas will never do…
