Kathimerini (Greece) 9 Sep 2018, p22: Cryptocurrencies: innovation or “bubble”?
If you’re in Greece, get today’s Kathimerini and you’ll see a 350-word op-ed from me on why cryptos are bad.
Author: David Gerard
First legally-mandated blockchain: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)’s spam call complaint database
Requiring a particular deep implementation is bad — and especially because of unrealisable hype.
News: CBOE Ether futures, the invisible Petro, Civil and Associated Press, BitFi hacked worse
Plus good papers, opinion pieces and followups. And why surveys claiming amazing mainstream crypto uptake!! are made-up rubbish. Also, go hear Edmund Schuster and Angela Walch on Tuesday afternoon.
Saïd Business School presents the astounding blockchain of the future! And not the mundane one of the present
Business students are actively seeking out courses on “blockchain.” This one is very optimistic — and leaves its students susceptlble to the hype.
Don’t PayPal me — they cut me off!
Don’t try to PayPal anything to dgerard@gmail.com – it’ll bounce!
News: CFTC crypto win, Bitcoin power use, NiceHash, Huobi public listing, Indiegogo goes crypto, Cosbycoin comes true
Craig S. Wright, the man who failed to be Satoshi, turns out to be… not such a good coder.
Decentraland — Second Life, but on the blockchain — with me on BBC World Service “Trending”
Because what Minecraft really needed was a cryptocurrency ICO. Or perhaps not.
DPW restores hydroelectric plant in upstate NY for crypto mining. That’s good, right? And promotes the AntEater mining rig!
DPW would do far better just selling the electricity locally. This plan doesn’t make sense as a business.
News: Tether pump fails, ETFs rejected, China blocks more exchanges, NotPetya ransomware, how FOMO3D was won, XYO goes Reg A+
The possibility of it being worth someone’s while to just DDOS you is almost never mentioned as a problem with smart contracts.