Collaborate Disseminate
History is full of artifacts that later turn out to be fakes, but very occasionally the opposite can happen. New analysis of ancient Roman coins long dismissed as forgeries has found they appear to be authentic, revealing a previously unknown Roman emp… Continue reading Authenticated ancient coins reveal a Roman emperor lost to history
The premium currency for a child’s video game has a stronger exchange rate than Russian money. Continue reading Roblox Currency ‘Robux’ Is Outperforming the Ruble
The inner machinations of the mind of cryptocurrency markets are an enigma. Even traditional stock markets often seem to behave at random, to the point that several economists seriously suggest …read more Continue reading Hamster Trades Crypto Better than You
As the saying goes, “Follow the money.” Regardless of one’s philosophical argument on the merits of a decentralized currency controlled by the masses and not a single government entity, criminals are utilizing the technology to their … Continue reading Book Review: Investigating Cryptocurrencies
It was reported, and Hackaday has now confirmed, that counterfeit Benchoff Bucks were being circulated at this weekend’s Hackaday Superconference.
The fake bills were distinguishable by their poor printing quality and vastly smaller size than official ‘Bucks. Their appearance should help to relieve the skyrocketing value of the Benchoff Buck, whose dominance as the preferred paper currency at hardware conferences has caused deflationary forces to take hold as ‘Bucks holders hoard them.
Hackaday’s resident economists hope that the appearance of the counterfeits will begin to devalue the currency. Diminishing the strength of Benchoff Bucks has long been the goal for …read more
Continue reading Official Statement Regarding Counterfeit Benchoff Bucks
Anyone keeping up with financial news today is surely inundated with stories about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. While most of the news is about the potentially inflated value of some of these coins, and how drastically they have changed in price in just a decade, there are other interesting things going on behind the scenes. For example, the currency Ethereum allows for a distributed programming platform of sorts to be implemented in the blockchain, which [GusGorman402] has taken advantage of in his latest project (YouTube link, embedded below).
The device that he built is based on an ESP8266 which connects …read more
While Bitcoin and other altcoins are all the rage these days, there is still a lot of activity in the traditional currency exchanges. Believe it or not, there’s money to be made there as well, although it rarely makes fanciful news stories like cryptocurrency has been. Traditional currency trading can be done similar to picking stocks, but if you’d rather automate your particular trading algorithm you can set up a Raspberry Pi to make money by trading money.
This particular project by [dmitry] trades currency on the Forex exchange using an already-existing currency trading software package called MetaTrader. This isn’t …read more
Continue reading Spare RPi? You Have a Currency Trading Platform
In this How-To, Motherboard writer Daniel Oberhaus shows us how to build an Ethereum mining rig from scratch.
Credit: The Noun Project Continue reading How to Build an Ethereum Mining Rig
While the digital currency has gotten more energy efficient in the last few years, transactions still take thousands of times more electricity than swiping a credit card. Continue reading Bitcoin Is Still Unsustainable
