2021 in crypto and blockchain: your 100% reliable guide to the future
Crypto: “Take us seriously!”
FinCEN, Treasury: “Sure!”
Crypto: “No, not like that,”
Author: David Gerard
Today’s addition to the fintech arsenal
Vital analysis tools for any finance blogger, I assure you.
News: KodakCoin is dead, XRP RIP, US on stablecoins, seasteading fails again
I get my crypto market insights by watching the remote-viewing guy draw pictures of his psychic impressions on YouTube.
SEC sues Ripple Labs, claiming XRP is a security
Perhaps they could change the ticker from XRP to RIP.
Number go up! New Bitcoin peak, exactly three years after the last — what’s happening here
John McAfee did promise to eat his own dick if BTC didn’t hit $500,000 by the end of 2020. So maybe this is a last ditch McAfee penis pump.
Me in BitcoinBlog.de: “Bitcoin piles up so many layers of ideas that are bad or wrong or just don’t work.”
Christoph Bergmann of BitcoinBlog.de interviewed me about Facebook’s Libra (now Diem), about Libra Shrugged and about Bitcoin.
Blockchain Debate Podcast: Diem Is a Glorified PayPal
I’m doing the Blockchain Debate Podcast again on Thursday 17 December! My opponent on this question is Bryce Weiner.
News: Coinbase key holders leave, Ethereum 2.0 slashing, Libra may not become Diem, regulatory clarity in France
“If the business channel you watch leads its forex ticker with buttcoin price, you should switch the channel.”
Tether is ‘too big to fail’ — the entire cryptocurrency industry utterly depends on it
We just topped twenty billion alleged dollars’ worth of tethers! If you think this is sustainable, you’re a fool.
Facebook’s Libra is now Diem; STABLE Act says stablecoins must get banking licenses
The US has a fair chance of obliterating the US crypto trading stablecoin market in the quest to rein in Facebook’s bad idea.