Because Monero lacks an encrypted memo field. (Monero has encrypted payment IDs but these aren't quite long enough to hold an e-mail.) Accepting Monero payments requires theshadowbrokers to exchange multiple

I don't think there's really much for them to pick apart, honestly. There's zero doubt that they were wrong. "others discovered that the transaction numbers in the receipt were not in the public ledger

Actually, New York Times didn't ignore it. They got an "expert" to say it was fake. Other leaked documents appear to have been forged, or faked. One purported to detail the purchase of the stimulant

If you're just starting to follow TheShadowBrokers story now, I'd recommend catching up by reading up on TheShadowBrokers (google it and pick your favorite news outlet, I guess). For this specific story,

Personally, I've encountered difficulties in making anonymous transactions with ethereum. I was only able to find 1 (shady looking/centralized) mixer and a smart contract that almost nobody uses. Led me

Claiming they aren't trying to get the exploits into the wrong hands one minute, then selling it to anyone and everyone the next. You know... if the NSA would disclose exploits instead of hodling them

Cool thanks! I guess another possibility I hadn't previously considered is that Google translate improved their algorithm slightly since the hacker used it and I used it.

But it is correct in the malware version but not in the Google translate version? ie: z plików is correct and pliki is incorrect? If so, I think it kind of implies they kind of knew how Polish nouns work,

Didn't know about the anonymous steem accounts! Very useful and I'll definitely pass it along to people I know who may be hesitant to make a PVA! Thanks for the link on cost of account creation. Sometime

If you follow the /r/wikileaks 'meta' closely, you'll see that a subset of users and mods (especially /u/kybarnet) are constantly posting about decentralization, ethereum and other blockchain solutions.

That's what I'm wondering too. The answer is I don't know but I sent this to some proper linguists so hopefully they can chime in.

I did prove that statement wrong if you read the post carefully. The block he is referring to is a BitShares block, not a Bitcoin block. And I don't particularly care whether or not he bought it. I care

Yep! Thanks, it was your posts that attracted me here! Gotta say steemit left a great first impression. The UI is fantastic and it was easier to write/format a long post here than it would've be on reddit.