Libra Shrugged — Chapter 6: Banking the unbanked
A book excerpt! Cryptocurrency promoters never detail how they’re actually going to “bank the unbanked.” What would they need to do?
Author: David Gerard
Foreign Policy: Confused About Dogecoin? Here’s How It (Doesn’t) Work
I think James Palmer had way too much fun making the illustration.
Tether printer go brrrrr — cryptocurrency’s substitute dollar problem
I don’t know precisely what tiger iFinex and Tether are riding, but it clearly has teeth.
News: Craig Wright copyright claims, Grayscale, Mt. Gox, Reddit on Ethereum, the French Bitcoin neo-Nazi
News from before the Fall.
Blockchain Debate Podcast: Diem is a glorified Paypal (David Gerard vs. Bryce Weiner)
The Blockchain Debate Podcast that I recorded in December is up now!
Stablecoins through history — Michigan Bank Commissioners report, 1839
“Gold and silver flew about the country with the celerity of magic; its sound was heard in the depths of the forest, yet like the wind, one knew not whence it came or whither it was going.”
News: Twitter on the blockchain, the US coup on the blockchain, Gensler in at the SEC, Ripple ex-CTO loses Bitcoin keys
The price went up in a triangular Fibonacci double-reacharound formation, moderated somewhat by both Makemake and Haumea being in Libra.
News: Tether TO THE MOON, Bitcoin over 40,000 USDT, more Ripple fallout
“Working on a Stock-to-Flow model for scarce nuclear waste as a Store of Value. Just need Tether to pump me now and an exchange to list it.”
2021 in crypto and blockchain: your 100% reliable guide to the future
Crypto: “Take us seriously!”
FinCEN, Treasury: “Sure!”
Crypto: “No, not like that,”
Today’s addition to the fintech arsenal
Vital analysis tools for any finance blogger, I assure you.