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.
Author: David Gerard
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.
The Bitcoin hash rate for the past year, and the squeeze that crypto miners find themselves in
In a bubble, Bitcoin miners can do very well. But what bubbles do is … pop.
News: The crypto price crashes further, Tether, nodejs/NPM coin-stealing exploit, North Korea blockchain conference
bullish on USD. it is clear that USD is increasingly popular with past hodlers of the deprecated bit-Coin. USD has gone up hugely in just the past day against the b.t.C!! in conclusion you should be getting into currency
NewMR: What is Blockchain: a primer for market researchers – Tuesday 20 November 2018
My back-to-basics “what actually is a blockchain?” talk, tuned to market researchers. The Q&A at the end was good too.
The Australian National Blockchain: centralised IBM “smart contracts” for lawyers — with no code yet, only concept
“A giant shared but segmented database, with the word ‘blockchain’ stuck on it.” All on the IBM Cloud.
News: Bitcoin crashes, Tether wobbles, the mining business is not so great, Bail Bloc, Binance, Bitcoin Cash split
In a survey of 1000 US investors, none — actually zero — thought owning Bitcoin was a good idea.