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Has a New Yorker Reporter Found Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto?

  • Posted on October 5, 2011 at 3:51 pm

bitcoin batman Has a New Yorker Reporter Found Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto?

Bitcoin has its own version of Batman and a New Yorker reporter has gone out hunting for the cryptocurrency’s Bruce Wayne.

It’s been three years since the inception and introduction of Bitcoin to the world and while it started out extremely fringe and invisible to the general public, lately the cryptographic currency has managed to make quite a splash. The system involves a complex mathematical theory that allows users to slowly coin their own money, essentially limiting the volume of currency and making it something of a commodity. Of course, now that Bitcoin has appeal generated from sites such as Slashdot the creator should be basking in the limelight of his or her invention—but here lies the mystery: Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin, happens to be a reclusive enigma.

SiliconAngle: Has a New Yorker Reporter Found Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto?

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Chinese Prisons Forcing Inmates to “Gold Farm” in Online Games

  • Posted on May 26, 2011 at 11:28 am

gold farming Chinese Prisons Forcing Inmates to Gold Farm in Online Games

As a prisoner at the Jixi labour camp, Liu Dali would slog through tough days breaking rocks and digging trenches in the open cast coalmines of north-east China. By night, he would slay demons, battle goblins and cast spells.

Liu says he was one of scores of prisoners forced to play online games to build up credits that prison guards would then trade for real money. The 54-year-old, a former prison guard who was jailed for three years in 2004 for “illegally petitioning” the central government about corruption in his hometown, reckons the operation was even more lucrative than the physical labour that prisoners were also forced to do.

The Guardian: China used prisoners in lucrative internet gaming work

From http://technoccult.net/archives/2011/05/26/chinese-prisons-forcing-inmates-to-gold-farm-in-online-games/