2020: when real stocks act like cryptos. Blame SoftBank
How the Invisible Hand of the Market turned out to be SoftBank putting a Visible Thumb on the Scale of the Market.
Author: David Gerard
News: Bitcoin goes up, Reggie Fowler’s lawyers quit, Pokémon, ancaps buy a plague ship
And Decrypt is running an excerpt from Libra Shrugged.
New Money Review podcast: Why Libra was bound to fail
My first podcast for Libra Shrugged is with Paul Amery at New Money Review.
Calibre, ePub and epubcheck: the curse of editing XHTML
What I actually did to make the ePub for Libra Shrugged. There’s almost certainly bits I could have done better some other way.
News: Filecoin, CoinDesk, money-laundering busts, Libra barred until 2023, BitMEX and Roko’s Basilisk
Filecoin: Must die, bye bye, bye bye.
Libra Shrugged has been uploaded to the bookstores!
Just saying, if you were a $5 Patron you could be reading it now …
Libra Shrugged: we have the artwork!
I was particularly impressed that the dumpster fire worked as a silhouette.
PayPal brings crypto gambling to US retail. Bad for customers, bad for PayPal
Certainly, sir! We accept PayPal, who are totally into your, uh, bot-coins. Yes, PayPal. Use them there. PayPal’s on our website, you definitely don’t need to come here in person ever again.
Things I had mercifully forgotten about preparing a book for publication
The Libra book is probably sufficiently revised to get out to early readers! So now I have to prepare the print layout.
News: McAfee and BitMEX busted, don’t pay your ransomware, Morgan Beller leaves Libra, SEC beats Kik
Crypto asked for regulatory clarity, and they’re getting it! Good and hard.