#as opposed to a ransomware group or similar

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How did this backdoor come to be?

It would appear that this backdoor was years in the making. In 2021, someone with the username JiaT75 made their first known commit to an open source project. In retrospect, the change to the libarchive project is suspicious, because it replaced the safe_fprint funcion with a variant that has long been recognized as less secure. No one noticed at the time.

The following year, JiaT75 submitted a patch over the xz Utils mailing list, and, almost immediately, a never-before-seen participant named Jigar Kumar joined the discussion and argued that Lasse Collin, the longtime maintainer of xz Utils, hadn’t been updating the software often or fast enough. Kumar, with the support of Dennis Ens and several other people who had never had a presence on the list, pressured Collin to bring on an additional developer to maintain the project.

In January 2023, JiaT75 made their first commit to xz Utils. In the months following, JiaT75, who used the name Jia Tan, became increasingly involved in xz Utils affairs. For instance, Tan replaced Collins' contact information with their own on oss-fuzz, a project that scans open source software for vulnerabilities that can be exploited. Tan also requested that oss-fuzz disable the ifunc function during testing, a change that prevented it from detecting the malicious changes Tan would soon make to xz Utils.

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Russia Backs Trump’s Re-election, and He Fears Democrats Will Exploit Its Support https://nyti.ms/2uTOgJ7

Vote out every single Republican. Every single one. The 2020 election is about preserving our democratic values and rule of law. Vote as if our future depends upon it, because it does. Vote blue no matter who.

""Exploiting" the truth of Russia's meddling? Absolutely not. Exposing and acknowledging a truth that should make every Trump supporter stop in their tracks and realize MAGA is Putin's ironic joke at happy hour."JOE, CA

Russia Backs Trump’s Re-election, and He Fears Democrats Will Exploit Its Support (NEW INFORMATION)

A classified briefing to lawmakers angered the president, who complained that Democrats would “weaponize” the disclosure.

By Adam Goldman, Julian E. Barnes,  Maggie Haberman and Nicholas Fandos| Published Feb. 20, 2020 Updated 8:22 p.m. ET | New York Times| Posted February 20, 2020 |

WASHINGTON — Intelligence officials warned House lawmakers last week that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get President Trump re-elected, five people familiar with the matter said, a disclosure to Congress that angered Mr. Trump, who complained that Democrats would use it against him.

The day after the Feb. 13 briefing to lawmakers, the president berated Joseph Maguire, the outgoing acting director of national intelligence, for allowing it to take place, people familiar with the exchange said. Mr. Trump cited the presence in the briefing of Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California, who led the impeachment proceedings against him, as a particular irritant.

During the briefing to the House Intelligence Committee, Mr. Trump’s allies challenged the conclusions, arguing that he had been tough on Russia and strengthened European security. Some intelligence officials viewed the briefing as a tactical error, saying that had the official who delivered the conclusion spoken less pointedly or left it out, they would have avoided angering the Republicans.

Though intelligence officials have previously told lawmakers that Russia’s interference campaign was continuing, last week’s briefing did contain what appeared to be new information, including that Russia intended to interfere with the 2020 Democratic primaries as well as the general election.

The intelligence official who delivered the briefing, Shelby Pierson, is an aide to Mr. Maguire who has a reputation of delivering intelligence in somewhat blunt terms. The president announced on Wednesday that he was replacing Mr. Maguire with Richard Grenell, the ambassador to Germany and long an aggressively vocal Trump supporter.

Though some current and former officials speculated that the briefing might have played a role in the removal of Mr. Maguire, who had told people in recent days that he believed he would remain in the job, two administration officials said the timing was coincidental. Mr. Grenell had been in discussions with the administration about taking on new roles, they said, and Mr. Trump had never felt a kinship with Mr. Maguire.

Spokeswomen for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and its election security office declined to comment. A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

A Democratic House Intelligence Committee official called the Feb. 13 briefing an important update about “the integrity of our upcoming elections” and said that members of both parties attended, including Representative Devin Nunes of California, the top Republican on the committee.

Mr. Trump has long accused the intelligence community’s assessment of Russia’s 2016 interference as the work of a “deep state” conspiracy intent on undermining the validity of his election. Intelligence officials feel burned by their experience after the last election, where their work became subject of intense political debate and is now a focus of a Justice Department investigation.

Part of the president’s anger over the intelligence briefing stemmed from the administration’s reluctance to provide delicate information to Mr. Schiff. He has been a leading critic of Mr. Trump since 2016, doggedly investigating Russian election interference and later leading the impeachment inquiry into the president’s dealings with Ukraine.

After asking about the briefing that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and other agencies gave to the House, Mr. Trump complained that Mr. Schiff would “weaponize” the intelligence about Russia’s support for him, according to a person familiar with the briefing. And he was angry that no one had told him sooner about the briefing, the person said.

Mr. Trump has fixated on Mr. Schiff since the impeachment saga began, pummeling him publicly with insults and unfounded accusations of corruption. At one point in October, Mr. Trump refused to invite lawmakers from the congressional intelligence committees to a White House briefing on Syria because he did not want Mr. Schiff there, according to three people briefed on the matter.

The president did not erupt at Mr. Maguire, and instead just asked pointed questions, according to the person. But the message was unmistakable: He was displeased by what took place.

Ms. Pierson, officials said, was delivering the conclusion of multiple intelligence agencies, not her own opinion. The Washington Post first reported the Oval Office confrontation between Mr. Trump and Mr. Maguire but not the substance of the disagreement.

The intelligence community issued an assessment in early 2017 that President Vladimir V. Putin personally ordered an influence campaign in the previous year’s election and developed “a clear preference for President-elect Trump.” But Republicans have long argued that Moscow’s campaign was intended to sow chaos, not aid Mr. Trump specifically.

And some Republicans have accused the intelligence agencies of opposing Mr. Trump, but intelligence officials reject those accusations. They fiercely guard their work as nonpartisan, saying it is the only way to ensure its validity.

At the House briefing, Representative Chris Stewart, Republican of Utah, who has been considered for the director’s post, was among the Republicans who challenged the conclusion about Russia’s support for Mr. Trump. Mr. Stewart insisted that the president had aggressively confronted Moscow, providing anti-tank weapons to Ukraine for its war against Russia-backed separatists and strengthening the NATO alliance with new resources, according to two people briefed on the meeting.

Mr. Stewart declined to discuss the briefing but said that Moscow had no reason to support Mr. Trump. He pointed to the president’s work to confront Iran, a Russian ally, and encourage European energy independence from Moscow. “I’d challenge anyone to give me a real-world argument where Putin would rather have President Trump and not Bernie Sanders,” the nominal Democratic primary race front-runner, Mr. Stewart said in an interview.

Under Mr. Putin, Russian intelligence has long sought broadly to stir turmoil among adversaries around the world. The United States and key allies on Thursday accused Russian military intelligence, the group responsible for much of the 2016 election interference in the United States, of a cyberattack on neighboring Georgia that took out websites and television broadcasts.

The Russians have been preparing — and experimenting — for the 2020 election, undeterred by American efforts to thwart them but aware that they needed a new playbook of as-yet-undetectable methods, United States officials said.

They have made more creative use of Facebook and other social media. Rather than impersonating Americans as they did in 2016, Russian operatives are working to get Americans to repeat disinformation to get around social media companies’ rules that prohibit “inauthentic speech,” the officials said.

And the Russians are working from servers located in the United States, rather than abroad, knowing that American intelligence agencies are prohibited from operating inside the country. (The F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security can, with aid from the intelligence agencies.)

Russian hackers have also infiltrated Iran’s cyberwarfare unit, perhaps with the intent of launching attacks that would look like they were coming from Tehran, the National Security Agency has warned.

Some officials believe that foreign powers, possibly including Russia, could use ransomware attacks, like those that have debilitated some local governments, to damage or interfere with voting systems or registration databases.

Still, much of the Russian aim is similar to its 2016 interference, officials said: search for issues that stir controversy in the United States and use various methods to stoke division.

One of Moscow’s main goals is undermining confidence in American election systems, intelligence officials have told lawmakers, seeking to sow doubts over close elections and recounts. Confronting those Russian efforts is difficult, officials have said, because they want to maintain American confidence in voting systems.

Both Republicans and Democrats asked the intelligence agencies to hand over the underlying material that prompted their conclusion that Russia again is favoring Mr. Trump’s election.

Although the intelligence conclusion that Russia is trying to interfere in the 2020 Democratic primaries is new, in the 2019 report of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, there is a reference to Russian desires to help Senator Bernie Sanders in his presidential primary campaign against Hillary Clinton in 2016. The report quoted internal documents from the Internet Research Agency, a troll factory sponsored by Russian intelligence, in an order to its operatives: “Use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest except for Sanders and Trump — we support them.”

How soon the House committee might get that information is not clear. Since the impeachment inquiry, tensions have risen between the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the committee. As officials navigate the disputes, the intelligence agencies have slowed the amount of material they provide to the House, officials said. The agencies are required by law to regularly brief Congress on threats.

While Republicans have long been critical of the Obama administration for not doing enough to track and deter Russian interference in 2016, current and former intelligence officials said the party is at risk of making a similar mistake now. Mr. Trump has been reluctant to even hear about election interference, and Republicans dislike discussing it publicly.

The aftermath of last week’s briefing prompted some intelligence officials to voice concerns that the White House will dismantle a key election security effort by Dan Coats, the former director of national intelligence: the establishment of an election interference czar. Ms. Pierson has held the post since last summer.

And some current and former intelligence officials expressed fears that Mr. Grenell may have been put in place explicitly to slow the pace of information on election interference to Congress. The revelations about Mr. Trump’s confrontation with Mr. Maguire raised new concerns about Mr. Grenell’s appointment, said the Democratic House committee official, who added that the upcoming election could be more vulnerable to foreign interference.

Mr. Trump, former officials have said, is typically uninterested in election interference briefings, and Mr. Grenell might see it as unwise to emphasize such intelligence with the president.

“The biggest concern I would have is if the intelligence community was not forthcoming and not providing the analysis in the run-up to the next election,” said Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a former intelligence official now with the Center for New American Security. “It is really concerning that this is happening in the run-up to an election.”

Mr. Grenell’s unbridled loyalty is clearly important to Mr. Trump but may not be ideally suited for an intelligence chief making difficult decisions about what to brief to the president and Congress, Ms. Kendall-Taylor said.

“Trump is trying to whitewash or rewrite the narrative about Russia’s involvement in the election,” she said. “Grenell’s appointment suggests he is really serious about that.”

The acting deputy to Mr. Maguire, Andrew P. Hallman, will step down on Friday, officials said, paving the way for Mr. Grenell to put in place his own management team. Mr. Hallman was the intelligence office’s principal executive, but since the resignation in August of the previous deputy, Sue Gordon, he has been performing the duties of that post.

Mr. Maguire is planning to leave government, according to an American official.

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Adam Goldman, Julian E. Barnes and Nicholas Fandos reported from Washington, and Maggie Haberman from New York. Eric Schmitt and David E. Sanger contributed reporting from Washington.

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JUST A SAMPLING OF COMMENTS, PLEASE SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS:

"If Trump doesn't want Democrats to "weaponize" information about Putin meddling in our elections to get him re-elected, he's got a simple fix: tell his pal Putin to stop doing it! More likely: he'll ask Putin to render his meddling invisible. Do it but be more clever and don't get caught." JOHN Q PUBLIC, LONG ISLAND NY

Trump re-election at all cost that is all that matters. Who cares if Russia helps, Just along as Trump gets re-elected. Try and shed light on anything suspicious and expect the wrath of Trump and his pack of henchman. Mitch, Lindsay and pretty much the entire republican party have his back, they are just too affraid to speak up. They are more concerned with staying in power than what is good for the future of our democracy. Thanks Boys, we are really proud of your integrity!" JAMES JOSEPH, NYC

"Could we please just acknowledge that Trump is a willing Russian asset? Examine his business history back to his Russian real estate transactions. Makes things quite clear." JT, FLORIDA

"This man is a clear and present danger to the security of the United States. And the Senate does nothing. Nothing! Are they proud of their president*? I have to think not, but they are cowards and refuse to do anything. Vote in November like your democracy depends on it. Because it does."AJ, MIDWEST

"Of course, Putin is helping Trump! That was a given. Of course Senate Republicans, with McConnell spearheading the effort, are blocking any and all attempts to shore up our election systems. Of course we are an oligarchy. We are in the midst of the most dangerous cycle yet. Vote for change. This is our last chance."

REMA REGAS, SOUTHERN CA

"Note that DJT isn't bothered by the content of the briefing - foreign interference in the election process - but by the fact that it will be used as fodder against him. Shows you just how deep in the gutter this guy is." ML, TORONTO

"Some intelligence officials viewed the briefing as a tactical error, saying that had the official who delivered the conclusion spoken less pointedly or left it out, they would have avoided angering the Republicans." I was unaware that avoiding the anger of Republicans in an intelligence briefing was a goal of such a briefing. Isn't the most important thing about an intelligence briefing that the information about our enemies be provided to all of Congress and the heads of our armed services?" LIB, UTAH

"Aside from the fact that Trump happily accepts repeated Russian election assistance, the fact that Trump AND the Republican Party refuse to take any serious steps to defend this country from repeated Russian invasions of our elections and our republic amount to a collective Trumpian-Republican act of Treason against the United States. There's nothing particularly American about Trump or the leadership of the Republican Party......but they do have a stunning resemblance to corrupt Russian-style oligarchs. November 3 2020 Wake up, America....before it's too late." SOCRATES, NJ

"" ... a disclosure to Congress that angered Mr. Trump, who complained that Democrats would use it against him ... " The only intelligence reports that Mr. Trump rants about involve foreign influence to help his re-election. The only criminal cases Mr. Trumps rants about involve his political hitmen. The only "corruption" he rants about is a political opponent. The only "fake news" he rants about are factual stories that expose his connivances. The only anything he rants about is self-serving. Mr. Trump is transparently corrupt, and his GOP sycophants are driven solely by cynical careerism." STEVE KENNEDY, DEER PARK TX

To recap: Trump is angered not that Russia is (again) committing election interference, but that Democrats will use that information against him, whch they absolutely SHOULD, given both Russia's interference in our last election AND Trump's attempted extortion of Ukraine's Zelensky to interfere on his behalf? Well, Trump's always mad about something... and he'll channel his ire into some sort of vindictive action. I, and millions of my fellow citizens, are mad that Trump managed to become (and manages to remain) president. I hope we channel our ire into replacing him with someone who doesn't inflict worry onto the populace. In a sane universe, that wouldn't be so hard." D. PRICE, WAYNE NJ

"The 2020 election comes down to this: If Trump wins, Putin wins. If Putin wins, America loses." MR INDEPENDANT, TX

"Trump meddles with judges, DoJ and Stone case. Trump offers Assange pardon for exonerating statement. Trump tries to suppress intel showing Russia helping him. Trump hires loyalist with no experience to be acting DNI. This is just this week. I'm sure I've forgotten many things. What will it take for enough Americans to wake up?" ART, ISLAND SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC

"Trump doesn't mind a foreign power in our election. He is bothered that someone had the brass to report it so everyone knows how much he owes Putin." KAY JOHNSON, COLORADO

"Congressional Republicans have apparently decided that a corrupt, Russian-backed authoritarian regime is better for them than transparency, ethics, rule-of-law, and a level electoral playing field." J. GUNN COOLIDGE, CHEVY CHASE MD

"Trump processed this information through the filter of what it meant to him personally. His primary care isn't the country. It's himself. We need a better president." ML, WASHINGTON DC

"One after another, Trump's vindictive behaviors - his administration's actions to remove protections from our land, our national parks, our waters; his lying and cheating as he dismantles and destroys our nation - distress me. Born in 1941, I remember the threat of Stalin when I was an elementary schoolgirl. I recall drills to "protect" us from an atom bomb. I remember feeling overwhelmed by the threat Stalin posed, and I remember feeling powerless. Then when Stalin finally died, I remember feeling relieved, that he could no longer attack us, bomb us, capture and torture us and send us to slave labor camps in the Siberian Gulags. Trump engenders similar feelings in me - not that he'll bomb our cities, or arrest and torture us (although I believe he'd probably like to do that to his perceived enemies) - but that he is a powerful threat to our way of life, our national values, our rule of law, and our equality; that with Putin's help, he'll defeat our elections, steal another election, strengthen his position, and become the dictator he is already becoming without the title. I pray for a fair, un-interferred with election."

MARIAN O'BRIAN, CHICAGO IL

"It is not 'weaponizing the disclosure' when what is being said is the truth. It is warning us of what the Russians and Trump are doing to steal another election. Trump of course would react with anger at this disclosure as it under mines his ability to lie to us with out consequence. The function of our intelligence agencies is to inform us of the truth and protect us from foreign influence. Trump's only function seems to be the attempt to sell us out to a foreign power, something that does not go away because of your toadies failing to impeach you in the Senate." JUST ROBERT, NC

Russia is interfering in our elections again, because they've learned that, with Trump in power, they can do so with impunity. Four more years of Trump could sound the death knell of NATO, music to Putin's ears. What is more distressing is how the Republican party has ceased to be an independent entity of Trump. Our political legislators have always trusted our intelligence community. We have never abided foreign interference in our elections, but now the GOP, in a desperate attempt to curry favor with Trump and downplay Russia's hand in getting him elected, are quick to deny our intelligence. They are now merely the Trump's lackeys: spineless sycophants who seek to remain in his good graces. Our founding fathers would find this abominable."STEWART, GEORGIA

Will the American people continue to act shocked and surprised by this? Republicans concluded long ago that the ends justify the means. They see us as an existential threat and will quite literally do anything to stay in power. Will you all sit by and watch mouth agape as our democracy falls? We are on the edge of the cliff now. This is no longer the stuff of movies or other countries. This is happening now. And no one is coming to save us — it’s up to each and every one of us to do something about it."B. REED, WASHINGTON DC

"I worry that we're on the brink of a dictatorship, and that the Republicans are greasing the way. How can all those senators and congresspeople not understand that there is something wrong with this? But I have no doubt they'll defend it, say it didn't happen, say even if it did happen (or is happening right now) there's nothing wrong with it, that Trump is using his presidential prerogative - you know, the usual cycle. I am afraid for our country."

CATHLEEN, MO

"So, there goes the Constitution? Does anyone care that we didn't vote about it or have a constitutional convention about it but it's ok to simply announce foreign meddling and life goes on until the keys to the WH are handed over to Russia?" ELIZABETH, FL

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As ransomware rages, debate heats up on response

Ransomware attacks have crippled many municipal and corporate networks and created difficult choices on whether to pay the hackers to unlock data

City services in Baltimore, Maryland, were paralyzed earlier this year when a ransomware attack locked up computer networks and made it impossible for residents to make property transactions or pay their municipal bills.

Officials refused to meet hacker demands for a ransom of $76,000 to unlock the systems, but have been saddled with an estimated $18 million in costs of restoring and rebuilding the city’s computer networks.

The dilemma in Baltimore and in a similar case in Atlanta a year earlier highlight tough choices faced by cities, hospitals and corporations hit by ransomware, which can shut down critical services for organizations with dated or vulnerable computer networks.

Two Florida cities reportedly paid a total of $1 million in ransom this year, after which a new attack by the same group hit the state court system in Georgia.

Globally, losses from ransomware rose by 60 percent last year to $8 billion, according to data compiled by the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance.

At least 170 county, city or state government systems have been hit since 2013, with 22 incidents this year, according to the US Conference of Mayors, which adopted a resolution opposing ransomware payments.

“We’re seeing more attacks against cities because it’s clear cities are ill-prepared, and even if they know what’s going on they don’t have the funds to fix it,” said Gregory Falco, a researcher at Stanford University specializing in municipal network security.

Some analysts say ransomware attacks may have political motivations as well as financial ones

Epidemic proportions

Frank Cilluffo, head of Auburn University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, said the attacks have reached epidemic levels.

“The scale and scope of the problem is striking, affecting everywhere from relatively robust states to major metropolitan areas to smaller cities and counties,” Cilluffo told a congressional hearing last month.

“Targets include police and sheriff departments, schools and libraries, health agencies, transit systems, and courts… no jurisdiction is too small or too large to go unaffected.”

Ransomware has been a thorny cybersecurity issue for several years in the US and globally, marked by global ransomware attacks known as “WannaCry” and “NotPetya.”

Health care institutions have been frequent victims, and Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center revealed in 2016 it paid $17,000 to hackers to decrypt important data.

The French Interior Ministry said in a recent report authorities responded to some 560 ransomware incidents in 2018 but also noted that most incidents are unreported.

The same ministry report said hackers have shifted their strategy from attacking many systems with demands for small ransoms to more targeted attacks with higher potential payout.

Global losses from ransomware amounted to some $8 billion in 2018, according to a recent study

Pay or resist?

While the FBI and others warn against paying ransoms, some analysts say there is no clear answer for victims when critical data is locked.

“You have to do what’s right for your organization,” Falco said. “It’s not the FBI’s call. You might have criminal justice information, you could have decades of evidence. You have to weigh this for yourself.”

Josh Zelonis at Forrester Research offered a similar view, saying in a blog post that victims need to consider paying the ransom as a valid option, alongside other recovery efforts.

But Randy Marchany, chief information security officer for Virginia Tech University, said the best answer is to take a hardline “don’t pay” attitude.

“I don’t agree with any organization or city paying the ransom,” Marchany said.

“The victims will have to rebuild their infrastructure from scratch anyway. If you pay the ransom, the hackers give you the decryption key but you have no assurance the ransomware has been removed from all of your systems. So, you have to rebuild them anyway.”

A global cyberattack in 2017 infected more than 200,000 victims in more than 150 countries with ransomware, including Britain’s state-run National Health Service

Prevention is best

Victims often fail to take preventive measures such as software updates and data backups that would limit the impact of ransomware.

But victims may not always be aware of potential remedies that don’t involve paying up, said Brett Callow of Emsisoft, one of several security firms that offer free decryption tools.

“If the encryption in ransomware is implemented properly, there is a zero chance of recovery unless you pay the ransom,” Callow said.

“Often it isn’t implemented properly, and we find weaknesses in the encryption and undo it.”

Callow also points to coordinated efforts of security firms including the No More Ransom Project, which partners with Europol, and ID Ransomware, which can identify some malware and sometimes unlock data.

Analysts point out that ransomware attacks may be motivated by more than just money. Two Iranians were charged last year in the attack on Atlanta that prosecutors said was an attempt to disrupt US institutions.

“Attackers which aren’t such big fans of the US might want to cause economic disruption,” Falco said.

“Instead of trying to take down the whole electric grid, they may try to create chaos in a number of cities.”

Florida city pays $600,000 ransom to save computer records

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Australia Pledges the Making of Price Stable, Gold-backed Cryptocurrency Owing to the Success of Bitcoin

Australia Pledges the Making of Price Stable, Gold-backed Cryptocurrency Owing to the Success of Bitcoin

Australia’s biggest gold refinery is set to make a new cryptocurrency backed by gold after the Chief Executive reportedly planned to expand investment in the nation’s metals.

Perth Mint, which is an Australia’s official bullion mint and wholly owned by the Government of Western Australia, said they are planning to capitalize on the rise of the exchanging of digital money as an approach to enable the surge and enthusiasm for investing in Australia.

This plan was established as various cryptocurrencies have soared in popularity in the course of the last 12 months with Bitcoin, Ripple, Litecoin, and Ethereum each seeing a sky-rocking boom. They are adamant on the fact that bitcoin correlates with ransomware attack.

Hayes Explanation

Richard Hayes, Chief Executive of Perth Mint said that, as the world travels through circumstances of increasing uncertainty, you will see individuals in search of alternative aids or means of making money.

He continued by stating that, “we are currently seeing this huge stream of assets into the likes of Bitcoin right now since individuals are searching for something outside of the conventional investment.”

He also added that the proposed online digital currency will “bring investors back to valuable metals after a boom in alternative investments such as cryptocurrencies.”

Actually, Bitcoin was the first virtual currency and since it was initially mined in 2009, it has seen its esteem flow and achieve a record-breaking high of more than $17,000 (£12,000) in December 2017.

However, the value of bitcoin has dived from that point forward and a week ago observed its esteem drop to just $11761.35 (£8,300). Mr. Hayes contended the choice of the mint to build up a gold-backed currency, similar to how physical monetary standards have already been linked in the past, such that, it will assist convey a projecting value stability to those investing into the digital money.

He again asserted that his plan will mean individuals could trust that the digital currency will be really justified regardless of a physical sum.

However, he stated explicitly that, “With a crypto-gold or a crypto-valuable metals offering, what you will see is that gold is actually backing it. Therefore, it will have all of the advantages of something that is on a distributed ledger that settles very, very, quickly, that is easy to exchange, yet is really backed by valuable metals, thus there is something actually behind it, something sturdily backing it.”

The Perth Mint is not the first company or organisation to declare their intentions of making a currency connected to gold.

A year ago a cryptocurrency called Onegram which uses blockchain technology to create a new kind of cryptocurrency, where each coin is backed by one gram of gold at launch, was declared by finance firm Shariah-compliant, leading to notable media attention.

However, sales of the digital money Onegram collapsed, with less than 0.14 percent of the company’s target being sold in the principal period of the initial coin market. Nevertheless, Venezuela has also declared plans to launch a digital currency, called the Petro, which will be backed by gold.

Relationship Between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Gold

Some call cryptocurrency specifically Bitcoin, ‘digital gold’ since it remains as the cryptocurrency with the most astounding value as we saw its tremendous rise in 2017, however strangely digital currency and gold do not appear to have comparative market conduct.

The relationship between the two has been on the best of attention for industry spectators for a long time, as the media has much of the time championed the prospect that bitcoin is new ‘secured’ asset. Bitcoin gold has been said to help Bitcoin price to soar.

However, while some market spectators have guaranteed there is a relationship amongst bitcoin and gold, individuals from the digital currency trade group oppose this idea.

In spite of the fact that bitcoin and gold have regularly demonstrated an outstanding connection during times of macroeconomic crisis, this relationship has frequently separated once market situations come back to its ordinary state. Nevertheless, some have gathered information they trust demonstrates this relationship is a hypothetical, best case scenario.

Peter Zivkovkski Comments on the Relationship

Petar Zivkovkski, director of operations for bitcoin exchange platform Whaleclub, expressed that, his firm still can’t seem to identify any “significant statistical relationship” amongst bitcoin and gold. He likewise stated, ”

Accomplishing critical understanding into the relationship amongst bitcoin and gold requires investigating market relationship. At the point when the general market correlation is high, so is the relationship between this two, when the general market correlation is low, so is the relationship between them also.”

Statements like these could diminish the expectations of numerous market contributors who need the two assets to correlate reliably.

While the value developments of bitcoin and gold are available to translation, having more knowledge into the important market information can enable readers to grow an extra updated point of view. An examination of historical market information carried out failed to represent a solid relationship between cryptocurrency and gold.

On a week by week premise, the moving relationship between bitcoin and gold’s profits was sure for about the whole time frame between 30th December 2011, and 20th June 2014.

When clarifying the low relationship amongst bitcoin and gold market specialists indicated both the varying market size and market flow of the two assets. The bitcoin market can be characterized as “little” in contrast to the gold market, featuring that “the request expected to drive gold prices” is significantly more prominent than expected to boost bitcoin.

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Latest evidence indicates 'phishing' emails not to blame for global hack

Latest proof suggests “phishing” emails are unlikely to have caused the global cyber assault that wreaked havoc at dozens of NHS trusts and hit hundreds of thousands of computer systems in a hundred and fifty nations.

Security specialists have disputed claims that the virus became unfold via suspicious emails, pronouncing that computers have been prone to the computer virus irrespective of how vigilant users were. Experts said that except IT departments patched the virus and backed up their files they might be hit by means of the assaults.email icons.

Affected NHS trusts were criticized for now not adding the patch notwithstanding warnings from NHS Digital a month ago that they had been vulnerable to a likely attack. Malware created by way of intelligence organizations can backfire on its creators,” stated Putin, speak to media in Beijing. He brought that international leaders wished to speak about cyber security at an “extreme political level” and stated America has subsidized far from signing a cyber security agreement with Russia.

Authorities worry a 2d wave of the “WannaCry” ransomware may want to hit structures as human beings go back to work and switch on their computer systems on Monday morning.

Japanese computer professionals said around 2,000 PCs were affected whilst the Chinese news agency Xinhua mentioned that almost 30,000 had been hit.

Authorities had warned of an afternoon of chaos in advance of Monday, with the National Cyber Security Centre pronouncing that present infections should unfold via PC structures. NHS systems appeared to be in large part up and strolling on Monday, despite the fact that seven out of the 47 trusts hit through ultimate week’s assault are still seeking emergency assist, in line with NHS Digital.

Patients are being warned of the sluggish carrier at surgeries, however, patient statistics does now not appear to have been compromised. The Home Secretary Amber Rudd will hold an assembly of the emergency COBRA committee later these days.

The WannaCry ransomware, which locks computer structures and needs $300 (£230) in Bitcoin, hit over two hundred,000 computer systems on Friday and the effect persevered to be felt throughout the weekend. Around £33,000 in ransoms had been paid so far, in keeping with analysis of Bitcoin wallets.go to my email page.

On Sunday night time, Microsoft slammed the USA undercover agent business enterprise that had at the start evolved software that allowed the ransomware attack to infect computers. The “Eternal Blue” device advanced by means of the National Security Agency were dumped onto the public net with the aid of a hacking group called the Shadow Brokers.

Follow Up Emails

The first step in building a courting with your decide-in list is the email collection which follows on from both a subscription or a buy. The majority of your subscribers will arrive thru a unfastened offer through which you inspire site visitors on your internet site to alternate their call and electronic mail deal with (or other info) for a loose eBook, record, and so on. This is carried out the use of what is generally called a “Squeeze Page”. The squeeze web page will comprise a link to the free download which can be accessed by way of filling in a short shape giving call and e-mail deal with.

Once your internet site traveler has given their name and email in trade – what happens next?

The first aspect they may get hold of will be a thank you email on so as to be the hyperlink to the eBook or document for download. Once the subscriber has downloaded their gift the instantaneous transaction is completed. As far as an internet marketer is involved, however, this isn’t the give up of the story, however, the beginning. At durations after that more comply with up emails can be despatched. An initial one (in all likelihood tomorrow) will arrive in the subscriber’s inbox to ‘give a boost to’ the thank you and take a look at that the download changed into successful and providing assist if there has been a hassle with this and presenting to answer any query the subscriber might have.

The courting building will then continue thru next emails (possibly a pair each week). These will offer similarly unfastened presents or bonuses, raise exciting troubles associated with your area of interest or deliver hyperlinks to thrilling articles or videos. The complete procedure will preserve your subscriber privy to your continued hobby. In amongst the information, they acquire could be the occasional promotional emails, both for brand spanking new products of your very own or related Affiliate gives. The idea is to build this kind of rapport with a subscriber that they look forward to receiving messages from you. That will extra-or-much less assure that they will, at least, open your e-mail as opposed to ping it instantly to the Trash.

To have a big opt-in listing is the ambition of all internet marketers

It is much less complicated to promote services and products on your list than to move fishing in cold waters every time you’ve got a new provider. In our home city or neighborhood, we all have our favorite stores and/or groups we visit for certain things. We will in all likelihood have our favorite keep for groceries, our preferred DIY store to satisfy our household desires and our favorite eating places or pubs. It is simply the equal online as off. If our subscribers had been handled properly and feature acquired pleasant merchandise and nice carrier they may hold coming again. The response to new offers might be vastly higher from our subscribers than from advertising within the wider marketplace.

Global Warming Theory Is Rife With Manipulated Data, Bloated Bureaucratic Budgets, And Hot Air

As the founding father of a supposes tank that occurs to perform online, you can guess we’ve got had our proportion of discussions about Global Warming and Climate Change. Still, a principle which may be proved or disproved with each single piece of proof is not a principle at all. If there are not any hurricanes it’s worldwide warming, if there are greater hurricanes international warming. If there may be a drought it’s global warming, if there may be a flood international warming, plenty of tornadoes = worldwide warming, none that year, ought to be worldwide warming. Did a person throw away their Farmer’s Almanac because I see repeating patterns there which explain it all – simply study 1955 as an instance?

Why do I have a hassle throwing extra good cash after bad in pursuit of proving that mankind’s CO2 is causing catastrophic warming of our planet? Well, I’ve visible the facts manipulated, falsified or extrapolated past recognition of logical conclusion. Let’s discuss this for second lets?10 facts against global warming

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Global Warming researchers have a location over land thermometers near city warmth islands, college campuses, and other handy locations – which makes the information misguided. Then there is the integration information with one hundred fifty 12 months vintage ship captain logs, and modern day ship engine room H2O inflows at exclusive heights, hardly ever comparable or dependable facts. Different ships have exceptional hull designs and fluid dynamics, you can not realize exactly in which the water came from depth smart, as it matters the velocity of the ship and each ship is unique, that information isn’t similar – and 10s of hundreds and hundreds of awful statistics factors is simply garbage in rubbish out. Further, the combination of temperature information from buoys with the ship facts, is ridiculous, as is blending all of that with satellite facts (has troubles with water vapor interference, and so on.).

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What approximately “ice center samples, sheds,” you ask, isn’t always that precise data? Well no, you see, ice cores are complex because if a warming duration comes it melts down 1000+ years of records, lost forever not available. Plus CO2 hugs the floor and isn’t always constant in all components of our planet, no matter supply, historical volcanoes, woodland fires from lightning moves, whatever, we can not use that towards different statistics to prove correlation or causality with warming periods, + there could be a lag + or – in years, as new growth wooded area soaks up CO2 and old growth would not comm she’d sit when it dies. CO2 is a convenient ‘whipping boy’ and climates upward push and fall, ours on Earth appears to be buying and selling within a range warming, ice a while, possibly one results in the other and lower back again. CO2 trapped in ice, is exciting, however now not accurate either.

Then we’ve sun hobby – ninety-seven% of the energy, warmth in our ecosystem comes from the Sun, those fluctuations have not been studied in detail over the identical 1,000s of years needed for us to correlate with ice cores, tree earrings, hydrological cycles, sea level adjustments with regards to CO2. Yes, extra studies might be needed, but most effective if it’s miles actual research – no longer for use for political agendas for the Club of Rome, socialist globalists, or anti-US financial system to present a leg up for a failing EU, which has perhaps five years left earlier than fall apart.

Lastly, I’d like to see studies on climate styles and Earth’s magnetic discipline degradation, but truly not inside the context of Global Warming Theory – I assume that idea – mankind’s CO2 inflicting catastrophic weather warming is simply hot air. Think in this.

Why Buy A Hack Attack Pitching Machine?

If you want your team to in reality to take it is hitting to the following stage, it is time to keep in mind incorporating a Hack Attack pitching machine into your exercise ordinary. Used from high school and university teams to the professional massive league players, this system is a robust, well-constructed powerhouse of a glass so one can rival even the exceptional human efforts.

What Is a Hack Attack Pitching Machine?

It’s a tremendous baseball pitching system with a unique 3-wheel layout that, allows the hitter to look the ball for the duration of the pitching manner, mimicking an actual pitch and letting them time their swings and strides flawlessly. This facilitates train them for the actual field rather than stressing them out and forcing them to develop hair-trigger responses for the reason that they never recognize when the ball may be coming, as is the case with a few conventional machines.

What Are the Machine’s Features?

Situational customizability: The Hack Attack pitching gadget offers many notable functions so as to permit your crew to teach for any pitcher in any state of affairs. Far from really spitting out instantly pitches, it may throw proper and left exceeded breaking pitches like curveballs, split hands, and sliders, in addition to fastballs rivaling most important league pitchers. Unlike different pitching machines, its easy-flip dials make it an exceedingly easy count to adjust the sort of pitch you want.

Durability: The Hack Attack device is robust and the wheels are very durable. Durability is one of the first-rate parts of the Hack Attack; it’s practically indestructible metal frame is impervious to rust and can resist time and climate for a baseball pitching system you may not replace anytime quickly.

Portability: You might assume the Hack Attack pitching machine is difficult to get from area to location but we’ve taken care of that by using putting in a set of wheels that you can turn up and out of the way when the gadget wishes to face on its legs, and down to satisfy the ground whilst you need to transport it round. It’s heavy sufficient to absorb cringe, however mild enough to be transported effortlessly.

Consistency: Don’t you hate it whilst a device throws specific types of pitches at variable speeds, even in case you failed to exchange an unmarried putting? The Hack Attack throws precisely the pitch you want, every unmarried time.

Why Should I Buy a Hack Attack?

If you and your group are surely serious about baseball or softball, you need to do your first-rate to play just like the pros and that is what the pros use. It’s the most superior baseball pitching gadget presently on the market, and there’s no question that with its hard production, balance, and weather-resistant treatment, it will serve you well for many years to come. You’ll always know wherein the ball is, you may be capable of mimic the throws of virtually any pitcher, you could exchange the settings with a turn of the dial… The Hack Attack is really worth each penny!