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Elizabeth Lopatto

Elizabeth Lopatto

Senior Reporter

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    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.

    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.

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Why does it feel like we can’t escape TikTok?

    You ever notice how you can’t escape the TikTok-style video chumbucket, even on Instagram, Spotify, or um, the NBA app?

    John Herrman takes a stroll through platform incentives — and what a TikTok ban might mean:

    This would no doubt be a gift to American social-media platforms in terms of both user habits and raw advertising dollars. It would also reveal just how thoroughly they’ve been hollowed out over the years and how completely they’ve abandoned their core appeal in pursuit of a competitor they could never catch and won’t be able to replace in the event of its disappearance.

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Meet the AI that bets on how the ponies run.

    Can normal people win bets against algorithms? They almost certainly can’t respond fast enough.

    Horse racing has been troubled — deaths, doping — but computerized betting may be the thing that kills it: “If the general public consistently gets creamed at the track, they’ll stop coming to the track, and there’ll be no tracks.”

    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.

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Silk Road Bitcoin is back on the market, baby!

    Uncle Sam sold off $216 million this month. Four more sales coming this year!

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    How’s “democratizing finance” going for Coinbase?

    Even worse than last year, writes Fais Khan. One thing that was boosting Coinbase’s returns? Luna, which oopsies doopsie, failed.

    But surely Coinbase is more transparent now? Ahahaha, nope: “Coinbase didn’t like me poking around, so they stopped blogging about new coins... Their asset pages, which used to note if CV was involved, no longer appear to show any disclosure.” Stay safu out there!