Dec. 20, 2023, 9:34 p.m. Mostly Bitcoin for December 20, 2023 Mostly Bitcoin SEC could make crypto history in new year with first spot bitcoin ETF approval - 03:26 PM EST Utah’s Top Court Says Government Can’t Portray Refusals To Unlock Phones As Incriminat... - 02:28 PM EST Dog-Insipired Tokens (WIF) Lead Crypto Rally as Bitcoin (BTC) Eyes $45,000 - 12:55 PM EST From NFTs to XRP: the biggest crypto stories of 2023 - 12:11 PM EST Salvation Army kettle donations fall since 2019 - 09:57 AM EST Houthis Ruin Christmas - 09:46 AM EST Hackers Gained Access To The Sensitive Data Of 36 Million Comcast Customers - 09:13 AM EST Largest Dataset Powering AI Images Removed After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material - 07:17 AM EST Bitcoin ETFs Won't Be a Threat to MicroStrategy, Saylor Says - 03:51 AM EST You Can Get 1TB of Koofr Cloud Storage for $120 Right Now - 12:23 AM EST Facebook pleads not guilty in Forrest’s clickbait battle - 10:53 PM EST You Can Get Windows 11 Pro for $25 Right Now - 08:55 PM EST Ransomware gang ‘unseizes’ its site and issues new threats after FBI takedown - 06:45 PM EST Bitcoin 'Not Even Close' to Being Priced In: Acheson - 05:13 PM EST Beeper’s esoteric fix for iMessage access suggests why it’s pushing politically - 03:58 PM EST DOJ unveils a sweeping campaign to stop the BlackCat ransomware gang - 02:21 PM EST Here's How Apple AirTags Actually Work - 02:15 PM EST SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker - 01:37 PM EST Binance to pay $2.7 billion fine after hiding shady transactions from feds - 01:37 PM EST Bitcoin NFT Ordinals Craze Turns Into Revenue Bonanza for Miners - 01:15 PM EST BlackRock’s Claim of Green Investment Has Always Been a Sham - 12:56 PM EST The DOJ says it disrupted the Blackcat ransomware group - 12:50 PM EST Sukhoi Su-35: Russia Has Built One Truly Fast and Dangerous Fighter - 12:17 PM EST Best PDF editors 2023: Our top picks - 12:13 PM EST ETF Startup 7RCC Global Proposes Bitcoin Fund With Carbon Credits - 10:38 AM EST Grayscale CEO Says SEC Should Allow Multiple Bitcoin ETFs at Once - 10:10 AM EST Anti-ransomware startup Halcyon lands fresh $40M tranche - 09:09 AM EST WazirX volumes fall off a cliff amid India’s crypto scrutiny - 04:56 AM EST Wolverine part of massive Insomniac Games leak after ransomware deadline passes - 04:14 AM EST Bernie Sanders to Force Vote on Israeli War Crimes. . . ISI Document Blows Up Pakistan's C... - 09:04 PM EST Internet's deep-level architects slam US, UK, Europe for pushing device-side scanning - 07:51 PM EST Newly filed Bitcoin ETF application targets ESG investors with carbon credits - 05:44 PM EST Why bitcoin is up by almost 150% this year - 04:54 PM EST FTX files reorganization plan to end bankruptcy - 03:32 PM EST Secret Pakistan Document Undermines Espionage Case Against Imran Khan - 03:24 PM EST Google Disrupts Geofence Warrants, Says (Most) Location Data Will Be Stored Locally - 03:09 PM EST Cyber-crooks slip into Vans, trample over operations - 02:50 PM EST North Face, Supreme parent company says order fulfillment impacted by cybersecurity incide... - 01:52 PM EST Major apparel supplier behind North Face and Vans hit by cyberattack, disrupting its holid... - 12:47 PM EST NordVPN comes to the Apple TV - 11:29 AM EST Developing climate solutions with green software - 10:38 AM EST The Hamas Terrorist Who Wasn’t - 06:03 AM EST Scoop: Crypto leaders build colossal $78 million war chest for 2024 - 05:37 AM EST Are people really fleeing Texas? - 07:07 PM EST If You Held Your Bitcoin and Ethereum After FTX Crash, It's Cryptomas! - 12:45 AM EST Advisors may drive bitcoin ETF flows amid widespread 'disinterest' in crypto, says Needham... - 05:31 PM EST This Week In Techdirt History: December 10th - 03:51 PM EST The Deadline for the SEC to Decide on a (BTC) Bitcoin ETF Is Jan. 10 - 02:33 PM EST How to Authenticate Large Datasets - 06:06 AM EST Crypto Executive's Mom Helped Her Discover Bitcoin - 07:55 PM EST Hundreds of thousands of dollars in crypto stolen after Ledger code poisoned - 07:19 PM EST SEC rejects Coinbase’s request for a separate regulatory framework for the cryptocurrenc... - 11:06 AM EST Eric Schmidt has a 6-point plan for fighting election misinformation - 10:30 AM EST Buddha Backup review: A Zen-like interface for backup and syncing - 09:09 AM EST OFAC fines cryptocurrency exchange $1.2m for Russia sanctions violations - 08:10 AM EST Bitcoin and Crypto Startups Have Somehow Survived 2023 - 07:55 AM EST “The Squad,” Part 3: The Last Gaza War - 06:14 AM EST Google to hide user location even from itself, preventing it from giving data to law enfor... - 12:40 AM EST Bitcoin Miner Marathon Digital CEO Thiel Expects to Make Acquisitions - 10:10 PM EST Google Will Stop Providing Law Enforcement Data on Which Users Were Near a Crime - 09:55 PM EST Bitcoin ETF Redemptions Pose a Taxing Challenge to Issuers - 09:43 PM EST Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to... - 06:23 PM EST Marathon Digital Plans to Buy More Bitcoin Miners - 05:35 PM EST Digital Currency and the Fed's 'Doomsday Book' - 04:22 PM EST Three Ways to Back Up Your iPhone - 03:37 PM EST Apple partly halts Beeper’s iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead - 03:36 PM EST Is Compelled Decryption Heading to the Supreme Court? - 01:47 PM EST Opera GX browser adds a ‘boss button’ for instantly hiding your games…or other stuff... - 12:16 PM EST Intel kicks off the ‘AI PC’ era with Core Ultra chips - 11:56 AM EST JPMorgan says ETF optimism is overhyped, and Ether could overshadow Bitcoin in 2024 - 11:21 AM EST Intel launches 14th-gen Core Ultra chips, kicking off an AI PC future - 11:18 AM EST A tale of two Silicon Valley Sams – Bankman-Fried and Altman - 10:54 AM EST Lolli raises $8M Series B to expand its bitcoin and cashback rewards to enterprises - 09:07 AM EST Miss Universe in the World’s Newest Autocracy - 06:41 AM EST Proton Mail finally gets a desktop app for encrypted email and calendar - 06:11 AM EST Apple cracks down on iPhone thieves with new security setting - 06:11 AM EST Money-grubbing crooks abuse OAuth - 06:08 AM EST Proton Mail now has a desktop app in beta - 06:08 AM EST Encrypted email service Proton Mail gets its own desktop app - 06:02 AM EST For Trafficking Victims Forced to Scam Others, the Nightmare Continues Even After Escape - 12:10 AM EST Coinbase extends spot cryptocurrency trading to international platform citing US regulator... - 10:33 PM EST Is This the End of Geofence Warrants? - 07:53 PM EST You're Going to Want to Use Apple's New Stolen Device Protection Feature - 06:55 PM EST Did Google Just Defeat Every Geofence Warrant? - 06:49 PM EST Attorney-Eyes-Only Disclosure of Heuristics Used by Government in Analyzing Blockchain Tra... - 04:27 PM EST Let’s attempt to decode Google’s confusing new location data settings - 02:59 PM EST Spritely and Veilid: Exciting Projects Building the Peer-to-Peer Web - 02:42 PM EST Without Interoperability, Apple Customers Will Never Be Secure - 02:33 PM EST Tesla and Block among Bitcoin-holding firms to get boost from accounting rule change in la... - 01:35 PM EST Sam Altman’s Weird Eyeball Scanning Crypto Tech Comes to Minecraft - 01:05 PM EST You Can Finally Disable Read Receipts on Facebook Messenger - 01:01 PM EST FACT CHECK: Facebook Image Shows Fabricated New York Times Headline About Bitcoin ETFs, In... - 12:35 PM EST Best VPN services 2023: Top picks for speed, price, privacy, and more - 12:10 PM EST Coinbase (COIN) to Start Spot Bitcoin (BTC) Trading on International Exchange - 10:52 AM EST Three reasons why investors — and the financial system — should watch crypto in 2024 - 10:07 AM EST How to protect yourself from eBay fraud - 07:39 AM EST Stop Trusting Your Cloud Provider - 05:04 AM EST Get cloud storage for life for just $89.97 - 03:21 AM EST Obama’s clueless foreign policy left behind the chaos we face today - 07:08 PM EST You just read issue #873 of Mostly Bitcoin. 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