Web3: a VC-funded gig economy of securities fraud
If you look at a “Web3” offering and just think of it as a pump-and-dump onto retail investors, everything will make much more sense.
Author: David Gerard
The National Post’s Invisible Hand Society NFT collection — the facepalm manifesto
Making money’s one thing — but some people get a bit weird about it.
News: Royal Mint NFT, Europe requires crypto transaction traceability, VCs drop the “.eth”
Original art, do not steal.
If you want a scalable Ethereum blockchain, then P=NP
Ethereum makes more sense if you first assume it never mattered if the fancy promises ever worked out.
Blockchain bridges: how the smart contract piñata works, and why bridges keep getting hacked
Oversight needs to be put into place for these supposedly billion-dollar financial institutions — before they get within a mile of the real financial system where people live.
Earth 2: the Metaverse as crypto number-go-up
No, I don’t know why the Earth is undergoing mitosis.
News: Crypto crime statistics, Axie Infinity hack, Kevin Roose debunked, Lightning Network speed, NFT lawsuits
I shall henceforth be calling Bitcoin mining “extreme bingo.”
Don’t take me down to Bitcoin City: El Salvador Volcano Bonds delayed
Zelaya blames the war in Ukraine. Did all those buyers disappear? Surely they weren’t all freshly-sanctioned entities.
News: no crypto in 401(k) retirement plans, more Bitcoin ETF rejections, NFTs on Instagram, Jamaican CBDC
“EBSA expects to conduct an investigative program aimed at plans that offer participant investments in cryptocurrencies and related products.”
News: Sanctioned Russians try to dump Bitcoin; no crypto ATMs in the UK; Bored Apes underwear fails; Associated Press NFT plan; football sponsorships; how Facebook’s Diem died
You can’t cash in billions of dollars of bitcoins instantly — but sanctioned Russians are trying.