Marathon’s Bitcoin Mining Pool Will ‘No Longer Filter Transactions’ — Marapool Begins Signaling for Taproot
On Monday, the publicly-listed enterprise mining firm Marathon Digital Holdings announced the company has adopted the latest codebase offered by Bitcoin Core developers that features Taproot. Marathon is now signaling for Taproot according to the announcement. The North American bitcoin miner further noted that the firm’s mining operation Marapool will “cease filtering transactions.” Marathon Adopts Bitcoin Core Version 0.21.1 With...
Watch Tower & BMG Quietly Settle Christmas Album Copyright Lawsuit
The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society is the supervising body and publisher for the Jehovah’s Witness religious group. As such, it is building quite a reputation for targeting those that infringe its copyrights. Watch Tower’s targets are often smaller players who publish its songs and videos on platforms such as YouTube and Facebook without permission, sometimes when the stated aim is criticism or parody. However, last December the...
The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 15 Years After The Raid
There are a handful of traditions we have at TorrentFreak, and remembering the first raid on The Pirate Bay is one of them. Not only was it the first major story we covered, it also had a significant impact on how the piracy ecosystem evolved over the years. It also changed the lives of the site’s co-founders, who were eventually convicted. While a lot has changed over the years, The Pirate Bay is still around and there are no signs...
Start monitoring your Kubernetes cluster with Prometheus and Grafana
In my introductory article about chaos engineering, one of the main things I covered was the importance of getting the steady state of your working Kubernetes cluster. Before you can start causing chaos, you need to know what the cluster looks like in a steady state. read more Powered by...
Get started with FreeDOS
Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, I was primarily a DOS user. I loved the command line environment offered in DOS, which became more powerful with each successive release. I even learned how to write my own DOS programs in the C programming language so I could extend the DOS command line, and write more powerful replacements for the standard DOS commands. I’d experimented with Microsoft’s Windows—but if you remember...
