David Gerard

Meme of the day

This could have saved me so much time over the past couple of years.
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Introducing Facebook Pay! Nothing to do with Libra, honest

Facebook Pay does 100% of the useful bit, that plays to Facebook’s strengths. Why on earth would they do a cryptocurrency as well? I still don’t know the answer.
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Telegram responds to the SEC complaint about the Grams ICO

The Howey test is so vague, and cryptos are so new! Who could know anything, really? See you in court.
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Of course I’m spending hours fiddling with writing tools instead of writing, what else would I be doing. I fail to get along with Scrivener

With bonus taster from forthcoming Libra thing.
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News: Libra stumbles on, Bitmex leaks customer list, Crypto Capital Corp arrest and indictment, Tether appeal, Blockchain for China, Kleiman v. Wright settlement fails, Telegram tokens delayed, UK tax for cryptos

“BITCONNECT SAID TO EXIT LIBRA CONSORTIUM FOR FEAR OF BAD PRESS”
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What I’m up to this week

I’ve taken a week off work specifically to write stuff — sit down, open laptop, don’t play Angry Birds. (Well, less Angry Birds.)
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Keyword: Crypto podcast — David Gerard: Bitcoin is Hilarious Trash

Yesterday I recorded an hour with Keyword: Crypto — and it’s already up!
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News: Tether sued, ether is a commodity, proof of work is still awful, IRS releases incomprehensible guidance

If you’re going to do crimes, don’t do them on a permanent immutable public ledger of all transactions.
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Facebook and Libra’s terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week — everybody’s left, Dave

“In a way it’s liberating” — David Marcus on almost all the payment companies leaving Libra.
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SEC blocks the Telegram ICO — what this means, and what happens now

Telegram’s whole scheme was to skin precisely the retail buyers who securities registration is meant to protect from being ripped off.
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