Coinbase drops margin trading — because Bitcoin doesn’t scale
Coinbase told the CFTC that their internal systems use a ledger in an ordinary database … because the Bitcoin blockchain couldn’t possibly scale to their transaction load.
Author: David Gerard
Blockchain: Magic (Probably) Doesn’t Happen — Sam’s Class, 21 November 2020
A talk to Sam Bowne’s class CNIT 141: Cryptography for Computer Networks, at City College of San Francisco.
FT Alphaville Unofficial Tech Chat — David Gerard answers your crypto market questions
Digital gold, Bitcoin mining, CBDCs, DC/EP, Libra and Facebook, corporate crypto purchases, Avalanche and mathcoins, Tether and what happens when the music stops. And Craig Wright.
Finance Magnates podcast: Whatever Happened to Facebook’s Libra? Down the Rabbit Hole with David Gerard
I recorded another podcast with Rachel McIntosh from Finance Magnates — the history of Libra, how Bitcoin-related it is, CBDCs.
News: the collapse of Cred, Binance’s cunning plan, new US regulators, Bitcoin miners run out of cash
I ask one thing of you — please review Libra Shrugged!
New Kids on the Blockchain podcast for Libra Shrugged
That’s what I like to see — my lovely book cover right there in the video splash!
The Decrypt Daily podcast — David Gerard Talks New Book on Facebook’s Libra
A podcast on “Libra Shrugged” with Matthew Aaron, who is now doing Decrypt’s official Decrypt Daily podcast.
2020: when real stocks act like cryptos. Blame SoftBank
How the Invisible Hand of the Market turned out to be SoftBank putting a Visible Thumb on the Scale of the Market.
News: Bitcoin goes up, Reggie Fowler’s lawyers quit, Pokémon, ancaps buy a plague ship
And Decrypt is running an excerpt from Libra Shrugged.
New Money Review podcast: Why Libra was bound to fail
My first podcast for Libra Shrugged is with Paul Amery at New Money Review.