Tag: cryptocurrency
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Chess.com Becomes NFT Grifting Site
Users of the Chess.com were surprised today to find out that their previously played games could be minted on a blockchain as part of an NFT grift. Chess.com has an announcement about the scam, and the only way to opt-out of having previously played games minted is buried at the end of a support document…
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Homebrew Package Manager Founder Turns Crypto Grifter
There have been a variety of third-party command-line package management utilities for Mac computers that all really make the Mac’s terminal a good place to get things done with modern packages since Apple doesn’t provide a package management system for the command line like other Unixes do. MacPorts, Fink, and the newest and I think…
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1Password Announces Cryptocurrency and NFT Heel Turn
Got any recommendations for better multi-platform password managers?
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“The entire crypto fantasy…” according to Jon von Tetzchner
The Co-Founder and CEO of the company behind the Vivaldi browser, Jon von Tetzchner, in a post on the Vivaldi blog: The entire crypto fantasy is designed to lure you into a system that is extremely inefficient, consumes vast amounts of energy, uses large amounts of hardware that could better be spent doing something else…