Tether criminally investigated by Justice Department — When The Music Stops podcast
Number go up! Because there’s trouble at Tether.
Author: David Gerard
News: El Salvador Colón-Dollar, everybody hates BlockFi, Tether does CNBC
“One of the downsides of being both incompetent, unscrupulous and greedy is that you become very predictable.”
Summer reading for the cryptocurrency skeptic: part 1
Phew, what a scorcher! Why not sit back with a book or ten on the most fascinating subject in the world: financial shenanigans.
News: DeFi Education Fund, latest Binance woes, FATF rules, developers hate crypto
What to do when you’re approached by bottom-of-the-barrel crypto recruiters.
Twitter Spaces on Binance tonight, 13 July, 22:00 UTC! (3pm PST, 11pm BST)
I said I’d do one of these if someone else organised it …
El Salvador Bitcoin: Bukele scrambles to get something — anything — into place by 7 September
You might think it’s rank incompetence to release an official national payment system without an API … and you’d be correct.
News: Binance vs. the world, VanEck ETF, Robinhood fined, AfriCrypt Ponzi, mass ransomware attack
I am Elmer J. FUD, nocoiner. I own a mansion and a yacht.
El Salvador: Chivo Wallet, Strike speaks, users test the Bitcoin system so far
“It’s like watching a clown car slowly racing towards a trash fire. More clowns keep jumping in making the tragic, ever approaching end ever more ridiculous.”
Bitcoin myths: immutability, decentralisation, and the cult of “21 million”
Decentralisation was always a phantom. Every process in Bitcoin tends to centralisation. Plus: a history of Bitcoin Cash.
News: Stopping ransomware, China hates miners, Ecuador CBDC history, NFTs still too hard to buy
Things happened that aren’t in El Salvador!