News: Bitcoin crashes despite Bakkt, Crypto Rating Council, Libra, Tether stay, Kik shuts down Messenger, Craig Wright’s apparent plagiarism, CoinDesk shakeup
Watch me debate Bitcoin as a reserve currency tomorrow!
Author: David Gerard
UNICEF’s Innovation Fund slides from “blockchain” into cryptocurrencies
One piece of cryptocurrency transparency I’d really like to see from UNICEF — a full conflict-of-interest accounting of the crypto hodlings of everyone there promoting “blockchain.”
News: Kleiman and Wright settling, Libra, Tether, Initial Sucker Offerings, enterprise “blockchains” as back-end datastores, Marshall Islands, Telegram TON software
Crypto in general is a complicated machine to funnel decreasing supplies of actual-money from retail suckers to about twenty guys.
David Marcus responds to nations’ concerns about Facebook’s Libra — with shallow platitudes
What are some of the ways things could go bad if Libra gets huge — even given Marcus’ responses?
Andreas Hedqvist: Libra Path to Approval — a quick overview for crypto believers
One for crypto fans, but surprisingly good for a Kindle Unlimited quickie.
Chris Burniske, Jack Tatar: Cryptoassets — telling retirees to buy into the Bitcoin bubble in October 2017
Burniske and Tatar published this book in the throes of a manic asset bubble, explicitly encouraging naive retail investors — retirees — to throw their savings into the bubble. Let’s see how it’s aged.
France shuns Facebook’s Libra. How was Libra stupid enough to end up here?
When you take dumb ideas, but you put some serious real-world power behind them … they’re still dumb ideas.
Switzerland’s guidance on stablecoins — what it means for Facebook’s Libra
FINMA published their guidance on stablecoins today — answering a request from Libra, but covering the stablecoin area more broadly.
Your questions about Facebook Libra — as best as we can answer them as yet
I asked some crypto contacts what questions normal people have been asking them about Facebook’s whacky crypto-Bitcoiny thing — and any questions they had themselves.
News: Tether clogs Ethereum, Quadriga venue move, KodakOne sends copyright-trolling email, Telegram TON proceeding, no official Chinese stablecoin, Lightning in decline, don’t be your own bank
Ethereum is the World Computer! As long as you don’t try to use it for any sort of real application.