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.
Author: David Gerard
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.
CoinDesk’s new scammer identity protection rule
Do you want to rock the boat, or become the boat? Or, at least, the rudder?
News: Wirecard, Abramoff and AML BitCoin, Mr Craig Wright’s Ph.D. thesis disappears
“Techbrorati in Berlin idolized this guy. Don’t let them say otherwise.”
What the collapse of Wirecard means for crypto
Of course Wirecard were into crypto. Just a little, you understand.
News: Estonia not so keen on crypto, Peter Todd settles sexual assault defamation claim, how Compound works, bye bye Wirecard
My “not buying cryptos to launder money” shirt is raising a lot of questions answered by the shirt.
Bancor releases smart contract security hole, hacks self, only loses a few hundred thousand dollars of user funds
“20. Bancor reimplemented math.”
News: Quadriga report, Coinbase VCs want to dump their dead altcoins, India to re-ban cryptos, Civil is dead
And some light summer reading.