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Jack Mallers’ Strike denied an email breach that definitely happened

On Tuesday, Jack Mallers’ Bitcoin-focused payments app Strike responded to a media inquiry about a customer database breach, saying, “There’s no evidence that Strike was breached.” However, within minutes, crypto researcher ZachXBT had posted evidence of the breach in a Telegram channel, and within hours, Strike admitted to customers that its email list was indeed breached by a third party. The incident isn’t the first time that Strike and its CEO Mallers have misled the public about the reality of the company’s operations.  Mallers promised, for example, that customers would be able to use Strike to pay for everyday purchases in bitcoin at Walmart, McDonald’s, Walgreens, and Starbucks. This simply never happened. Then in 2021, Mallers demonstrated international workers sending a USD remittance in their Strike account. In fact, for months, Strike was secretly representing Tether as USD to customers in its app. Good thing Tether’s peg held $1 until Strike disclosed the full truth.

This is the first known Satoshi Nakamoto’s email; What’s inside?

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A previously undisclosed email sent by the anonymous creator of Bitcoin (BTC), Satoshi Nakamoto, has come to light. The email , sent to computer scientist Wei Dai, dates back to August 22, 2008, and provides fascinating insights into the early stages of the development of Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency that would revolutionize the financial world. In the email , Satoshi expresses his deep interest in Wei Dai’s B-money page and reveals his plans to release a paper that expands on Dai’s ideas to create a complete working system. Nakamoto revealed that Adam Back, the cryptographer behind Hashcash, had noticed the similarities between Dai’s work and Satoshi’s project, leading him to direct Satoshi to Wei Dai’s website.  Contents of the email One key aspect of the email is Satoshi’s request for information regarding the year of publication of Wei Dai’s B-money page. He seeks this information for proper citation in his upcoming paper.  Cryptocurrency Accumulation opportunity