Mt. Gox, once the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange, shuts down - As of late Monday evening, the embattled Bitcoin site Mt. Gox appears to have pulled the plug entirely in the wake of sustained DDOS attacks and the “transaction malleability” problem that has plagued other websites. The site is gone and the company’s Twitter account appears to have been erased entirely.
Related - Apparent Theft at Mt. Gox Shakes Bitcoin World - A document circulating widely in the Bitcoin world said the company had
lost 744,000 Bitcoins in a theft that had gone unnoticed for years. That
would be about 6 percent of the 12.4 million Bitcoins in circulation.
(Yep - Bitcoin Currency of the Future)
Oklahoma schools required to teach high school students to manage finances - Oklahoma students, effective this May, now must demonstrate an
understanding in banking, taxes, investing, loans, insurance, identity
theft and eight other areas to graduate. Teachers are required to
certify students’ working knowledge in each area.
Why the Comcast-Netflix Pact Threatens Our Internet Future - In the complex and politically charged world of high-speed internet
access, this is a landmark agreement. Traditionally, content providers
like Netflix — which streams TV shows and movies over the net — have not
paid for direct access to consumers who use home internet connections
from ISPs like Comcast, and the move has sparked countless questions
about what the arrangement means for the future of the internet, with
many asking whether Comcast and other big internet providers will have
too much control over what travels across the networks.
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