- Bitcoin dipped below $6000 on GDAX and Bitfinex a couple of hours ago. Cheap coins!
— Buttcoin (@ButtCoin) June 22, 2018
- The 2017 Bitcoin price rise has done its work — Mt. Gox is out of bankruptcy, as its assets have reached 100% of value owed to creditors. It has now entered a process of civil rehabilitation, which allows a bankrupt company in Japan to force changes to the terms of a debt. Instead of the trustee selling the bitcoins, their value — or the coins themselves — may be distributed to creditors. This is likely to take place next year. Creditors may even also get their equivalent Bitcoin Cash. Here’s to Mark continuing to do nothing wrong.
i personally think mt gox should keep all the money and use it to make hundreds of statues of mark and tibane and place them in front of all of the bitcoiners homes
— Buttcoin (@ButtCoin) June 22, 2018
- Tether has posted another not-an-audit — it’s another balance statement, just like the one from last September and with the same disclaimers. And this time it wasn’t even done by an accountant, but by a lawyer. Unsurprisingly, actual auditors are not impressed.
- I posted it a month ago, and it’s just been confirmed — Phil Potter has left Bitfinex. “As Bitfinex pivots away from the U.S., I felt that, as a U.S. person, it was time for me to rethink my position as a member of the executive team.”
bitcoin
bitcoout
— Buttcoin (@ButtCoin) June 22, 2018
- Izabella Kaminska from Financial Times FT Alphaville — which everyone reading this blog should sign up for, it’s free with login — testified to the UK Treasury Inquiry into Digital Currencies on Wednesday. The other witnesses were Marco Santori (Blockchain), Obi Nwosu (Coinfloor) and Iqbal Gandham (eToro) — and it was the savage and unrelenting one-on-three beatdown you’d have hoped for. She’s been off for a year on maternity leave, but when your patriotic duty to no-coin calls …
- Hydro-Québec triples prices for new crypto miner contracts. “We just received too many requests. We have been contacted by over 300 companies who want a total of over 15 000 MW, way more than what we could accommodate. We need a legal framework to select which projects can go through. The $0.15/kWh is temporary until we get that framework.” They’ve posted their proposed framework, which is about economic benefit to Québec.
- Posting on Reddit doesn’t seem to do the job any more — aggrieved Coinbase customers are now complaining directly to the SEC.
- Employees of the Executive Branch of the US Government must now declare any crypto holdings.
- eSports may not be a great use case for ICO tokens either — some gamers are less than delighted to be paid in unstable cryptos.
Fine print somewhere said they would pay parts of it in crypto. I can screencap emails and my crypto wallet. I don't think the technically lied but its pretty bad that it lost a ton of value right after the tournament.
— $hrugu (@Shrugu702) June 19, 2018
- TRON’s purchase of BitTorrent, Inc. goes through for $140m. This may be how crypto can be just like the dot-com bubble — companies who don’t know what to spend an ICO windfall on buying real companies. Blowing it on advertising during the World Cup is much more fun and with a lot less potential for damage.
- EOS is so decentralised that the EOSIO Core Arbitration Forum (ECAF) just ordered that 7 addresses should be blocked. “The logic and reasoning for this order will be posted at a later date.” Meanwhile, the EOS ICO cashout proceeds apace.
- If you generated your Nano address using the Android wallet, generate a new wallet and move your funds to it immediately — they messed up and used java.util.Random instead of SecureRandom. Version 1.0.2 fixes the problem. (It’s a different but similar problem to the one in this post — not enough randomness, so you could feasibly guess the key.)
By the way, what are the chances Satoshi used a proper random number generator? Back in '08/'09, most default PRNG's were broken.
This is what I would do if I were Faketoshi: crack a Satoshi key, using modified Bitcoin mining rigs to brute force PRNG initialization vectors.
— Emin Gün Sirer (@el33th4xor) June 22, 2018
- Tezos: Inside the Crypto World’s Biggest Scandal — a long and amazing piece by Gideon Lewis-Kraus. I saw an early version, and it’s even better now.
- The Financial Times ran an article on “Bitcoin birthday boy” Calvin Ayre, and somehow failed to mention his greatest claim to fame in the Bitcoin sphere — as backer for Craig S. Wright’s initial claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, as recounted in chapter 6 of the book, and for his continuing adventures at nChain and as a leading advocate for Bitcoin Cash.
they also used the doctored image that is trying to suppress satoshi's true vision for bitcoin, truly shameful reporting. here's the original: pic.twitter.com/Mjq2WDSOQ4
— Easily Readable Name (@ReadableName) June 21, 2018
- David S. H. Rosenthal on why all distributed file storage cryptocurrency schemes will eventually become less efficient front-ends to Amazon S3.
- The book is discounted on Kindle Canada for June — only CDN$4.49! Hurry, hurry!
Well, here we go. pic.twitter.com/LEb1xmcViH
— The Call of Cthraiglu (@CraigKBryant) June 21, 2018
I see, so bitcoin's value is only in the eye of the beholder, while also not being in a bubble at seemingly any price level.. because it has inherent utility.. which is to be a medium of transferable value across.. long distances pic.twitter.com/LLqUe3MVUR
— Mark Constantine (@vexmark) June 21, 2018
you harvard educated nocoiner prostitutes sicken me. some brave men who just want their superior intellect and cunning rewarded by the entire world shifting to put them on the top for having the foresight and wisdom to buy a bitcoin a decade ago and you just sit there and laugh
— Buttcoin (@ButtCoin) June 20, 2018
Just finished up at #baiconf2018 where I was on stage after @grantshapps delivering a speech on “Building a blockchain Britain”. 🙂 What a time to be alive.
— Jemima Kelly (@jemimajoanna) June 19, 2018
Don't worry, they won't actually want to do it. They just want to take a picture that looks like they're doing it so they can say they're doing it on their social media.
— Management Speak (@managerspeak) June 22, 2018
Getting a flareup of blockchain bros telling me I’m a “fascist dictator” for pointing out that blockchain doesn’t solve any problems in civil elections. This suggests an understanding of political science roughly as deep as their understanding of cryptography and security.
— matt blaze (@mattblaze) June 19, 2018
I hate these extremely rare occurrences of crypto exchanges getting hacked once a week
— Mark Constantine (@vexmark) June 20, 2018
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