The U.S. Pentagon has created a war game where users were rewarded in bitcoin for starting rebellions in one of its scenarios. The war game was conducted by students and faculty from military colleges in the United States.

The cryptocurrency-powered Brave browser has been under fire after users found its autocomplete function was adding referral codes to the links of popular cryptocurrency trading platforms, including Coinbase and Binance.

Voice, the social media network developed by Block.One, is set to launch next month. The platform will initially be available to only a select few, before a wider rollout.

Top stories in the Crypto Roundup today:

• U.S. Pentagon Created War Game That Rewards Users With BTC
• Brave Browser Under Fire for Adding Referral Codes to Some Cryptocurrency Exchanges
• Block.One’s Social Media Network ‘Voice’ to Launch Ahead of Schedule

At the time of writing, bitcoin (BTC) is trading at $9,736.31 (0.82%) with a daily Top Tier volume of $2.87 bn. As for ether (ETH), it is trading at $244.09 (0.95%) with a daily Top Tier volume of $825.57 million. The MVIS CryptoCompare Digital Assets 10 Index is currently tracking at 3,269.56 (-1.66%).

U.S. Pentagon Created War Game That Rewards Users With BTC

The U.S. Pentagon has reportedly created a game called the 2018 Joint Land, Air and Sea Strategic Special Program (JLASS), in which members of Generation Z were rewarded in bitcoin for their efforts in starting a rebellion (Zbellion).

The game Is set on a fictitious United States in the 2020s, and players are in it given proceeds for attacks on target corporations, financial institutions, and political and non-profit organizations that support “the establishment.”

Documents published by The Intercept show “Zbellion software programs to route any proceeds into laundering programs that ultimately convert national currencies into Bitcoin.” The game was created in 2018, some have compared it to the unrest going on throughout the world at the moment.

The Zbellion scenario was just a part of the JLASS game, which also featured scenarios involving Islamist militants in Africa, anti-capitalist extremists, and ISIS successors. The war game was conducted by students and faculty from military colleges in the United States.

Brave Browser Under Fire for Adding Referral Codes to Some Cryptocurrency Exchanges

The cryptocurrency-powered Brave browser has been under fire after users found it was injecting links with its own affiliate codes into the web address of popular cryptocurrency trading platforms.

On social media, user Cryptonator1337 revealed that using Brave addresses for exchanges like Binance were being auto-filled with a referral code at the end, which would mean that users who signed up via the browser would end up giving Brave some affiliate revenue. Once users started digging in, they found Brave auto-filed addresses for other firms, including Coinbase, Ledger, and Trezor. Brave’s GitHub repository shows the featured was added on March 25.

Brave CEO and co-founder Brendan Eich called the issue a “mistake we’re correcting,” adding that while Brave is an affiliate of these platforms the browser’s autocomplete featured should not add these affiliate codes. He added:

“The autocomplete default was inspired by search query clientid attribution that all browsers do, but unlike keyword queries, a typed-in URL should go to the domain named, without any additions. Sorry for this mistake — we are clearly not perfect, but we correct course quickly.”

The issue is set to be fixed on the Brave browser’s next stable release.

Block.One’s Social Media Network ‘Voice’ to Launch Ahead of Schedule

The social media network developed by the firm behind the EOSIO software Block.One, Voice, is set to launch ahead of schedule on July 4. According to tweets published by its CEO Salah Zalatimo, it will be available to readers in the U.S. then, with only registered users able to publish or engage with content.

Voice has been in beta testing since February 14, and according to Zalatimo registrations will remain on request until August 15. Then, Voice users will be able to invite their friends on to the platform. So far, Block.One has reportedly invested $100 million in cash and $50 million in intellectual property into Voice, with the voice.com domain itself costing $30 million.

Voice has come under fire for some of its policies, which include identifying all of its users and use data to “prevent and detect crime.” Block.One, it’s worth noting, was behind a year-long initial coin offering (ICO) for EOS, in which it raised a total of $4 billion.

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