News: Bitmain fires half its employees and all of Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Private exploit, Kleiman v. Wright proceeds
“Exchanges don’t go insolvent, they just repeatedly discover they need to do better KYC.”
Author: David Gerard
News: Brave browser’s opt-out “fundraising” for third parties, fallout from the Bitcoin and Ether price crash, Tether margin trading, UK tax guidance
NUMBER GO UP, December 2017 — “a much bigger run coming in 2018”
NUMBER GO DOWN, December 2018 — actually it’s about the technology, OK,
News: Augur election bet, Po.et cuts staff, BCTerminal sues The Block, Razer Silver cryptominer scam
Finally — Blockchain comes to the Apple II!
The ‘Bart’ — sudden hundreds-of-Bitcoin pumps or dumps, to burn the margin traders
Finance journalists need to stop treating crypto as an efficient market that responds to concerns. It’s a thinly-traded unregulated playground for whales, out to wreck the margin traders.
No, Nick Szabo wasn’t Satoshi Nakamoto in 2014 either
I’m writing an albatross of a book review. The book fingers Szabo as the most likely candidate for Satoshi Nakamoto. So I thought I’d share my pain.
News: Crypto Visa issuer fined by Gibraltar, ICOpocalypse, US Congress, BitMEX, EOS, OmiseGo, Laurie Penny
And the week’s opinion pieces — some sane and lucid … some not so much.
The KodakCoin ICO failed, and now everyone wants their money
The ICO failed, and nobody’s getting paid. Except ICOx Innovations. Also, one of the developers they stiffed is holding their Post-Licensing Portal software hostage.
News: Blockchains still useless, SEC bags celebrities, more MP meetings
“Despite all the hype about how blockchain will bring unheralded transparency to processes and operations in low-trust environments, the industry is itself opaque.”
News: Civil ripped off its journalists, Bitfinex untethers Tether, working at Trezor, Amazon Managed Blockchain
Any company that tries to pay your wages in company scrip — rather than actual money — should be treated as fraudulent trash.
Copytrack — a German photography ICO that’s being sued over where it sent the money
We need to catch up with KodakOne and KodakCoin. But first, let’s catch up with their competitor — Copytrack.