New York settles with Tether — a wrist-slap, with a strong leash
If anyone tells you Tether was “exonerated,” they don’t know what words mean. Read the settlement.
Number go up with Tether — Musk and Bitcoin set the world on fire
Bubbles grow until they pop. Timing the pop, that’s the tricky bit.
Facebook, WhatsApp Pay, Libra/Diem, CBDC news — Diem live in March?
There’s no evidence that Facebook’s cleared Diem with regulators in the US, the EU and Switzerland — as they pinky-swore they would absolutely do before launch. But I’m sure they wouldn’t go back on their word.
The SEC calls, DeFi Money Market shuts down — it begins
Here’s to this being the first of many to come.
Libra Shrugged — Chapter 6: Banking the unbanked
A book excerpt! Cryptocurrency promoters never detail how they’re actually going to “bank the unbanked.” What would they need to do?
Foreign Policy: Confused About Dogecoin? Here’s How It (Doesn’t) Work
I think James Palmer had way too much fun making the illustration.
Tether printer go brrrrr — cryptocurrency’s substitute dollar problem
I don’t know precisely what tiger iFinex and Tether are riding, but it clearly has teeth.
News: Craig Wright copyright claims, Grayscale, Mt. Gox, Reddit on Ethereum, the French Bitcoin neo-Nazi
News from before the Fall.
Blockchain Debate Podcast: Diem is a glorified Paypal (David Gerard vs. Bryce Weiner)
The Blockchain Debate Podcast that I recorded in December is up now!
Stablecoins through history — Michigan Bank Commissioners report, 1839
“Gold and silver flew about the country with the celerity of magic; its sound was heard in the depths of the forest, yet like the wind, one knew not whence it came or whither it was going.”