Crypto billionaire Craig Wright filed a £100,000 libel suit against “What Bitcoin Did” podcast host Peter McCormack on April 18, following a twitter-based argument about the real identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
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Tether’s press page hasn’t updated in four years
We feel bad for the most forgotten page in crypto
One of the saddest pages in crypto is in open sight for all to see. Of course, we’re talking about Tether’s “press” page. It’s just 10 articles, with the last one posted on April 22, 2015 and it was a CoinDesk story about using ShapeShift to buy USDT.
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‘ShapeShift’-ing crypto company says it will do one thing, does another
‘The exchange without accounts’ will soon require users to have accounts
ShapeShift has long said it would remain headed one very specific, privacy-minded direction. Now it’s going a different way. ShapeShift is easily understood as a hyper-anonymous cryptocurrency exchange. If you want to trade bitcoin for ether, for example, the platform doesn’t even require that you create an account. Company messaging consistently reveals pride for this design — with zero personal information collected from its users, there’s zero chance for embarrassing data leaks and total user confidence that their privacy is protected. Now the news is that the company’s gonna start collecting user data “soon.” It’s all in the name of letting these exchange users register membership accounts that will let…
