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Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
If I’d known I already had the Bitcoin whitepaper on my computer, I wouldn’t have bothered to download it.

Andy Baio discovered it’s there while trying to fix his printer. If you have a Mac, you can see for yourself. Open Terminal, then type (in a single line):

open /System/Library/Image Capture/

Devices/VirtualScanner.app/

Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf

A few other people spotted this before Baio, but there’s no real explanation, he writes. If you’re the person responsible, please email me, you little scamp! I’d love to know how you managed to keep this secret so long.

The Bitcoin Whitepaper Is Hidden in Every Modern Copy of macOS - Waxy.org

[Waxy.org]

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Now-defunct crypto bank served Tether.

Signature, Bank, closed by regulators almost a month ago, was an important ramp for controversial stablecoin firm Tether, Bloomberg reports. Its Signet payments platform was part of how Tether’s clientele could send dollars to Capital Union Bank.

The CTO of Tether said that the stablecoin “doesn’t have any exposure” to Signature, but the setup was still in place when Signature was shuttered.

Signature’s Signet Provided Path for Tether Holders

[Bloomberg.com]

Today in Twitter: where are the retweet labels, and why did Doge replace the bird?Today in Twitter: where are the retweet labels, and why did Doge replace the bird?
Mitchell Clark
Mitchell Clark
Did you run this by a lawyer?

Last week, Elon Musk’s lawyers asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit that claims he’s “engaged in a Crypto Pyramid Scheme” around Dogecoin, citing his tweets as evidence, according to Reuters. Today, Twitter’s bird logo was swapped out for a doge one on the web.

This is absolutely going to end up in a court document, right?

Elon Musk seeks to end $258 billion Dogecoin lawsuit

[Reuters]

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
Is Hong Kong the new crypto capital?

There’s a new licensing framework there, and the US appears to be less crypto-friendly in 2023 than it was in 2021 or 2022.

There are still questions — how much registration will cost, among other things — but it sure seems like a lot of the crypto world is up for grabs right now.

Hong Kong’s Crypto Ambitions Get a Boost From U.S. Crackdown

[WSJ]

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
April Fools’ 2023: Twitter HQ moving to Miami.

Sure, maybe Elon Musk could take over FTX’s vacant office space in Miami, but the edit history on the mayor’s tweet exposes this one as a joke.

Another funny joke from Mayor Francis Suarez is the MiamiCoin cryptocurrency — when we checked in last year, it had lost 88 percent of its value and traded for $0.0044. Now things have gotten so bad that the OkCoin exchange has suspended trading there altogether.

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