Balaji Srinivasan’s plan to save journalism
A venture capitalist on how to save journalism — or save venture capitalists from journalism, in any case.
Author: David Gerard
News: A fool and his money are soon decentralised, Kodak rides again, Ledger data breach, $100k Bitcoin
And Bitcoin nearly hits $100,000! … for a very brief time.
Libra book cutting room floor: Previous basket-based currencies
The Libra book probably won’t have to include a short history of currency baskets before I can talk about why the original plan for the Libra reserve was ridiculously terrible. So I’ve posted it here.
Facebook’s Libra was dead as of July 2019
As soon as a blockchain scheme gets in front of the adults — it’s dead.
News: Blockchain handouts, Wirecard UK, WhatsApp Pay Brazil, 10 billion tethers
It’s right there in the white paper — cryptocurrency is about government handouts.
Foreign Policy: Twitter Got Lucky With the Great Bitcoin Heist
Other people’s personal data requires controls as strong as the controls on other people’s money.
Voice: $300m to build Twitter for EOS, with a Real Names policy and KYC to get an account
With the real names policy, Voice might repeat the stratospheric success of Google Plus!
The early history of “Central Bank Digital Currency”
JP Koning and Richard Gendal Brown accidentally the whole CBDC.
Libra book cutting room floor: Libra as “stablecoin”; the early history of stablecoins
I wrote a short history of stablecoins for the prospective Libra book, but decided it was a bit of a digression. So I’ve posted it to the blog for your amusement instead.