News: BitFi hack, Court of the Blockchain, BitForex fake volume, .luxe for Ethereum domain names, crypto mining still environmentally awful, Bitcoin still useless, Tether
You can definitely trust John McAfee on all crypto-related matters. Maybe.
Author: David Gerard
The ICO that Grant Shapps quit — OpenBrix, a property website on the blockchain
Jemima Kelly from FT asked UK Member of Parliament Grant Shapps just one question about the OpenBrix ICO, and hilarity ensued.
News: TRON paying BitTorrent seeders, crypto miners in games, SIM hijacking, blockchain is useless, Bitcoin is useless, James Mickens
I particularly commend the James Mickens video.
Augur’s big problem is not the assassination markets — it’s being a bucket shop
Assassination markets on Augur are in the news lately — but I think their practical problem’s going to be the SEC and CFTC — who really don’t like bucket shops.
News: Intelligence Squared podcast, SEC rejects Bitcoin ETF, eMusic are broke, Ethereum ponzis incompetent as well as bad, Brock Pierce on Australian TV
Brock Pierce getting yelled at is quality television.
eMusic releases its blockchain ICO plan! … it’s not very good
eMusic’s plan: 1. Collect a large pile of money. 2. Write an all-new music platform that does everything! 3. Pay people in eMusic magic beans. This has a number of flaws.
News: Exitscam.me, UK Treasury, IBM’s dollar-substitute token, Stripe, KodakCoin
And there’s a Wikipedia article on the Kodak KashMiner.
City A.M.: “Approach Blockchain with Caution” — as text
The text of of my article “Approach Blockchain with Caution,” from last week’s City A.M.
News: BBC on Kodak KashMiner, Indian crypto ponzi, China crypto gambling, Vinnik to France, Ethereum clog, institutional investors don’t want cryptos
I posted about the KashMiner that never was, five days before the BBC.
News: Bitcoin $9000, Tether $1.08, US cross-agency task force, Bancor hack, DIRT, Augur, LSE, Ethereum Classic
CRYPTO STANDS FOR CRYPTOSPORIDIUM.