Me in crypto media — CryptoAuthority and CoinTelegraph
Me on CryptoAuthority about proof-of-work, and on CoinTelegraph about QuadrigaCX.
Author: David Gerard
ShapeShift and CipherBlade: money laundering accusations, and shells within shells
There’s stuff you can’t say in a proper magazine with offices and so on. So here’s a few DVD extras from the Decrypt article on ShapeShift and CipherBlade.
Foreign Policy: Neo-Nazis Bet Big on Bitcoin (And Lost): How the far-right’s failed cryptocurrency gamble became a bad joke for the Christchurch killer — by me
The Nazis were very hopeful that Bitcoin was the way out of their problems with getting kicked off PayPal … but it didn’t work out that way.
Someone said “buttcoin,” we can all go home now
For ten years, you have been asking: Has anyone said Buttcoin yet? This is Buttcoin speaking.
No, the New Zealand mosque shooter didn’t make his money in BitConnect
There’s no reason to believe any claim about himself in the Christchurch shooter’s manifesto — but specifically, not the one about BitConnect.
Decrypt: The fictional trading reserve — by me, after Tether announced that the skeptics had been right all along
So, it turns out that Bitfinex’ed was right about everything.
News: Bitcointopia busted, OneCoin busted, 1pool busted, Canada audits crypto traders
Canada has a sudden interest in regulating cryptocurrency.
Rocknerd: the Cryptorave in Athens, Saturday 16 February 2019
I finally wrote this up and posted it over at Rocknerd. Excessive quantities of pseudish babble wrapped around a surprisingly good live techno gig. Photos by Jemima Kelly.
News: Quadriga, the merchant case for cryptos, Ripple, Malta, Coinbase buys Neutrino, CoinHive shuts down, EOS hack, Tether on TRON
“It shows how an accused fraudster might sell himself and his fantastical story using the modern tools of the internet age.”
Facebook’s planned “cryptocurrency” — which almost certainly isn’t one
You can say “crypto” all you like — but if you’re dealing in actual money, you have to work to the rules of actual money.