News: BBC pulls crypto documentary, sports NFT failures, mining in Siberia
“Does Anyone else working in a crypto company feel this is all a scam?”
Author: David Gerard
Could Morgan and Lichtenstein have done the 2016 Bitfinex hack? I’m not ruling it out
The hack reeks of social engineering for insider information, not sophisticated computer science brilliance.
CityCoins — free magical money for your city! Maybe
Affinity fraud is where you pitch to a defined group, saying “I’m one of you. Would I scam you?”
News: World Wildlife NFT, Diem sale details, ECCB DCash offline
Admittedly, NFTs are not as bad as that time the WWF ended up funding mercenaries to rape, torture and kill suspected poachers. Whoops!
News: Twitter hexagons, Binance plays at compliance, Bitcoin Widow tour, Russia
I changed my own Twitter avatar to a pentagon, to show my allegiance to the fiat petrodollar.
Michael Patryn of QuadrigaCX is back — as 0xSifu from DeFi protocol Wonderland
I was wondering what Patryn had been up to after Quadriga — serial fraudsters like Patryn don’t just stop.
Facebook’s Libra is still dead — Diem to be sold off for spare parts
Maybe Libra was just very stupid. Because it was a blockchain project started by bitcoiners. Maybe it was always just dumb as hell.
Bitcoin goes down — and time bombs are waiting in the market
Crypto is suffering a supply chain shortage of greater fools.
CoinDesk: conflicts of interest make journalists more independent, apparently
Crypto’s tanking — so let’s pay people in crypto company equity!
News: El Salvador phone tapping, Bitcoin in Tonga, Associated Press NFTs, books
President Bukele’s office denies everything, and doubtless won’t rest until they find the real hacker.