Bitwise CIO Says Bitcoin Could Top $200K This Year Citing ‘Too Much Demand, Not Enough Supply’
Bitwise’s chief investment officer says bitcoin price could surge above $200K this year due to a “massive supply-demand dynamic,” emphasizing that “there’s too much demand and not enough supply” for the cryptocurrency. Predicting “an even bigger wave” of demand for bitcoin due to spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), he described: “It’s in a new era […] Powered by...
Publishers Target LibGen Domains, IPFS Gateways, Plus $30m in Piracy Damages
Library Genesis (LibGen) is one of the oldest shadow libraries on the Internet, offering free access to millions of books and academic papers people otherwise have to pay for. The site’s origins reportedly trace back to the Soviet Union’s underground publishing culture ‘samizdat,’ which was used to bypass state censorship in the last century. LibGen launched around 2008 as a digital version of the same concept. In addition to...
China Sentences Pirate Site Operators, Huge Win For Japan’s Anime Industry
Anime piracy site B9Good first appeared way back in 2008, initially operating under B9DM branding. Defying the usual odds, 15 years later the site was still alive and kicking. Last March, Japan-based anti-piracy group CODA reported an estimate of B9Good’s traffic for the two years running up to February 2023. Based in China, the site had been accessed more than 300 million times and, crucially, around 95% of those visits came from...
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 03/04/2024
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. Downloading content without permission is copyright infringement. These torrent download statistics are only meant to provide further insight into piracy trends. All data are gathered from public resources. This week we have four newcomers on the list. “Poor Things” is the most downloaded title. The most...
