Avant Card — a central bank digital currency from 1990s Finland
The Bank of Finland loved the idea — but forgot the bit where the users had to love it too. Your market is users, not other vendors.
Author: David Gerard
The revenge of Canada — crypto exchanges are put under securities regulation
After Quadriga, Canadian regulators feel they need a much bigger stick to deal with crypto.
Telegram tries to appease the SEC — no Gram tokens in Messenger
Telegram’s big-ticket investors may have a robust attitude to perceived shenanigans.
News: 2020 predictions, ICO fallout, Craig Wright, Qatar and Uzbekistan block cryptos, Bitcoin and censorship, Libra
The Bitcoin white paper’s elegant simplicity only exists in a perfectly spherical monetary system in a vacuum at absolute zero.
Decentralised Finance (DeFi) in practice — when you have a spare ETH to play with
“In Every Trade There Is An Idiot And If You Don’t Know Who It Is, It Is You.” This of course being crypto, where everyone is pseudonymous, and no one knows who anyone is, I figured that those rules didn’t apply.
News: Kraken trouble in Wyoming, Reggie Fowler plea deal, Australia clamps down on crypto exchanges
And so this is Christmas — and it turns out that banking commissioners take allegations of sanctions violations seriously.
Kraken crypto exchange sued by whistleblowing ex-employee — allegations
Fake addresses, disappearing customer funds, stock option shenanigans, and sanctions violations — allegedly.
News: Eran Eyal and Shopin charged again, some Cryptopia money found, Richard Heart and Hex, exhuming Gerald Cotten
Crypto is not a Ponzi scheme! It’s just a great platform to build other Ponzis on.
New York’s problem with Tether — as set out for the appeal judges
If you were having problems getting your head around this case, this is a good and useful summary. Plus — iFinex’s response!