- New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has sent inquiry letters to 13 cryptocurrency exchanges around the world, as part of a virtual currencies market integrity initiative. Here’s the questionnaire. Many are not under New York state jurisdiction, but hey, why not ask nicely. Hopefully they’ll all still exist by deadline:
Bitcoin Magazine #1 from 2012 did not age very well. pic.twitter.com/TGBu41GsPF
— Karel (@karel_3d) April 13, 2018
- But then, who could ever think that Bitcoin trading was ridiculously manipulated? The price does a Bart Simpson pattern:
another truckload of USDA CERTIFIED 100% ORGANIC magical unicorn pony products dumped onto the blockchain around 12:00 UTC
this is GOOD NEWS for someone probly pic.twitter.com/dBuvbAlmo9
— Buttcoin (@ButtCoin) April 15, 2018
Bart Simpson pattern again pic.twitter.com/mKp1B2iWia
— Buttcoin (@ButtCoin) April 16, 2018
- Don’t want to deal on exchanges? Know Your Customer rules too troublesome? Go to LocalBitcoins, and find someone to trade with directly! … oh, they’re now demanding ID for significant volumes too.
- The UK Treasury Committee Digital Currencies inquiry deadline has been extended to Monday 30 April 2018! Skeptics, get your submission in — I understand they’ve been flooded with submissions from ardent Bitcoin fans, but what they’re after here is well-considered quality. Submissions from outside the UK are welcomed too.
- Baidu is launching Totem, which appears to be a direct copy of Kodak’s ridiculous KodakOne initiative — a stock photo site which uses artificial intelligence to scour the web for copyright violations, and which will “initiate online rights lawyers” to resolve disputes. On a Blockchain — to be called Pic-Chain — for some reason.
- You know that Australian coal-fired power plant that was supposedly reopening to mine Bitcoin? Here’s a followup on the story. From Mark Serrels at CNet, who I apparently scooped somewhat (cough).
- Bitcoiners: Bitcoin is the money of the future!
JP Morgan: Bitcoin is money? Sure, we’ll treat it like money then!
Bitcoiners: HOW DARE YOU SIR
- Cambridge Analytica planned an ICO! And instead, they got The ICO. They also planned to market other tokens.
- How does ICO promotion work? Like this:
I can't take this gentleman up on his nice offer — but I do wonder how much other journalists charge to cover ICO projects. pic.twitter.com/b3ZEgPeRiZ
— Nathaniel Popper (@nathanielpopper) April 16, 2018
What I usually get: pic.twitter.com/EC367pUABA
— Peter Todd (@peterktodd) April 14, 2018
- The Dumb Money: The definitive explanation of why Bitcoin is stupid. A readable Jacobin article! The obligatory leftist polemic is tacked onto the end and doesn’t get in the way. The rest is a good, accurate and apposite read.
- Hey, parents of children ages six and up! Have you recently awoken in a cold sweat, thinking that physical money and the existing global financial order are coming to a swift end and you need to turn your little family into a “micro-financing network?”
- Me at the talk I’m giving on Thursday at the Berenberg Blockchain: From Hype to Reality conference (just got my slides in!):
The hero we need pic.twitter.com/ldk2HuPsVT
— Kevin Kuchta (@kkuchta) April 10, 2018
- “Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain” is still $3.49 on Kindle Canada this month! Or there’s the lovely paperback! Or a signed paperback!
https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/984866799224225797
bitcoin.txt pic.twitter.com/n2j9xMp0oS
— Socially Distant Brian Bucklew ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 (@unormal) April 16, 2018
After reading Bitcoin Twitter for 72 hours non-stop, I finally get it.
Bitcoin is like the gold standard, but without its flaws, because blockchain.
It will usher in an era of unstoppable prosperity, much like cherry-picked periods in history & only for the parts that were good.— Trolly McTrollface (@Tr0llyTr0llFace) April 16, 2018
Changing my name to blockchain triggered an account lockout lol pic.twitter.com/UKfV1Kk1Js
— Buttcoin (@ButtCoin) April 15, 2018
the cryptocurrency rollercoaster of DEATH pic.twitter.com/CXEIuIhuKZ
— Buttcoin (@ButtCoin) April 12, 2018
a brilliant economics professor hated to fail students, so he told his class that "bitcoin is the future". by semester's end, all the worst students in the class had run into financial aid difficulties and transferred to community college. that professor's name? george soros
— Buttcoin (@ButtCoin) April 12, 2018
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