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📠 Why the PewDiePie Printer Hack is a Warning for Crypto Investors

A few days ago, a bored hacker known as TheHackerGiraffe achieved widespread notoriety hacking into 50,000 exposed printers as part of the “Save PewDiePie” campaign, an ongoing meme that aims to keep Youtube celebrity Felix Kjellberg the most subscribed person on Youtube.

While it has little to do with Cryptocurrency, the lessons learned from the hack could have major implications beyond the world of casual hacking and gamer culture.

According to the hacker, he decided to search for vulnerable printers on Shodan. This search, to his amazement, turned up 800,000 results. Taking a sample of 50,000 printers from the list running on a specific port, what he did next was locate a tool that would allow him to connect with printers on that port and print. He found one such tool called PRET, and in the thread, he described his shock at discovering what PRET would allow him do.

“PRET had the scariest of features. Ability to access files, damage the printer, access the internal network; things that could really cause damage. So I had to do this, to at least help organisations and people that can protect themselves.”

The major takeaway from the incident from a cryptocurrency security standpoint is that printing bitcoin wallet recovery seeds from a networked printer may be an incredibly risky activity. Though not the case in this specific incident, the process of hacking an internet-connected printer could involve stealing files stored on the printer’s internal memory, which may include past or pending print jobs.
Grayscale Continues to Buy BTC, Now Owns Over 1% of Circulating Supply
RSKSmart Workshop “Smart contracts on bitcoin” with Core Devoloper :)
Trajectory of Bitcoin if it just Keeps Doing for the next 10 Years What it has Done for the Last 10 Years.
Market on Free Fall :( In the mean time some genius Panic sold STRAT gave instant 20x to Some Lucky mofo.
​​Ethereum Constantinople HF Scheduled for 16th of January, 2019!

Ethereum Constantinople mainnet hard fork has finally been scheduled for block 7,080,000, estimated around the 16th of January, 2019! Changes include lower inflation (miner rewards being reduced from 3->2), difficulty bomb delay, code optimization for the EVM and cheaper storage for developers, with some things (see below) to help in L2 scaling.

> ETH Roadmap TL;DR
> See Constantinople Progress Tracker for more info.
ERC20 tokens Civic (CVC), district0x (DNT), Loom Network (LOOM), and Decentraland (MANA) are launching on Coinbase Pro
The Decline of ICOs
Most common mistakes with #Bitcoin investing:
1) Indecisive to buy.
2) Not buying enough.
3) Sell after small gain.
4) Sell during panic crash.

If you bought Bitcoin at $19,500 and you don't want to buy Bitcoin at $3,000, I don't know what to tell you😁😁😁
Zebpay Indian Exchange goes to Europe: Exchange opens for EUR based trading in Europe. Indian residents not allowed to register. Residents of 21 European countries can register.

This is a developing story. More details coming soon.
Cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain is closing down its research and development arm.

The reason is the general downturn in the crypto markets.

All 23 employees, including Bitmain’s vice president for sales and marketing – who led the Israeli project – have been laid off. Only a few months ago, the firm had reportedly been planning to hire over 40 people at the center across research, engineering and marketing roles
Q3 ICOs raised $2.2 bn (-70% QoQ) through 189 deals (-1.5% QoQ).

Q3 VC raised $974 mn (+17% QoQ) through 248 deals (+40% QoQ).