The Baseline Protocol — your private business, on the public Ethereum blockchain. Why on earth?
And the software that’s the secret sauce in this “enterprise” blockchain product explicitly says not to use it in production.
Author: David Gerard
Facebook’s Libra national currency plan isn’t new — it was always the fallback plan B
Revamps are in the air, because Libra still can’t get its bad idea past the regulators — the same ones who said “LOL, what on earth, absolutely not” within hours of Libra’s initial announcement last June.
News: London Football Exchange and Perth Glory, Ripple pays MoneyGram to be its friend, Libra not dead, IOTA still halted, Sweden’s not-a-CBDC
“I think sophisticated market investors can judge for themselves if 2+2 makes 5, or even 6. As Bruce Springsteen sang, ‘it’s just like Sister Ray said.’”
Critical journalism in the crypto ice age
The crypto media frantically circles a dwindling pool of promotional cash.
Filming in Vancouver about Quadriga
Amy Castor and I came to Vancouver for the weekend, to be interviewed by Sheona McDonald for a CBC documentary on the collapse of the Quadriga crypto exchange.
News: Hester Peirce and Bruce Springsteen, the $350,000 DeFi hack, FCoin exchange collapse, Voatz still bad, IOTA still broken, merchants still nonexistent
“It has been [0] days since the last inexplicably rare loss of customer funds from a Bitcoin exchange”
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce’s “safe harbor” proposal for ICOs will only enable scammers
How big an exit scam could you set up, given three years free?
News: IOTA, Massive Adoption, Mastercard v. Libra, DRM in JPEG plans, Reggie Fowler plea deal fails, more Silk Road busts, ICO grace period, the Bitcoin market
Mastercard throws Libra under the bus so hard, it bounces twice.
This is all Elizabeth Sandifer’s fault
The loved one’s reaction: “Oh dear God this is a thing that is happening. Sandifer, you bastard, what have you unleashed???”
News: Jacob Kostecki and Massive Adoption, Quadriga, Vodafone hangs up on Libra
When you’re a serial foulup — with other people’s money, not just your own — running a conference is ill-advised.