• Elon Musk criticizes Freewallet
    Freewallet may want to rethink praising Elon Musk's Dogecoin tweets in the future (Photo: Elon Musk/Twitter)
    Bitcoin,  People,  Technology

    ‘Your app sucks’: Elon Musk to crypto wallet Freewallet

    After Freewallet praised his pro-DogeCoin tweets, the newly-pro-Bitcoin Tesla CEO criticized the custodial wallet’s design, which does not give its users control over their private keys

    February 10, 2021 /

    Musk’s comments resonate with the “Not your keys, not your bitcoin” mantra well known by all seasoned members of the cryptocurrency community. Bitcoin—and many of the crypto assets that followed—was created to ensure that people using it could do so without having to trust any third party and obtain anybody’s permission.

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  • Blockseer mining pool censor
    Is a mining pool filtering out "nefarious" transactions on Bitcoin's blockchain a threat or a step forward? (Photo: Pixabay/Gerd Altmann)
    Bitcoin,  Technology

    Blockseer’s new mining pool: Compliance or censorship?

    DMG Blockchain Solutions is creating a mining pool that will filter out “nefarious” transactions using tools like the U.S. Office of Foreign Asset Control’s BTC address blacklist

    November 11, 2020 /

    Former Monero lead maintainer Riccardo Spagni—who has 117,000 followers on his @Fluffypony Twitter account—called out Blockseer’s new mining pool for “advertising that it censors transactions as a key selling point.”

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