News: Kik vs SEC, Kraken still offline, Brazil, Portugal, why you can’t cash out, porn ICO, musical blockchain
Things other than KodakCoin happened. I was going to have a “no cryptos” day today, but …
Author: David Gerard
Kodak pt 3: KodakCoin presale, prehistory, hot takes and harsh realities
People keep turning over rocks, and more dubious KodakCoin stuff keeps scurrying out. When the Lambo of possibility thinking hits the brick wall of harsh reality …
News: KodakCoin, Hydro-Québec, South Korea, Bitcoiners don’t take Bitcoin, Lightning Network, Ethereum woes
I spend too much time on Bitcoin Twitter. Yes, I know I did this to myself.
Kodak pt 2: photographers can’t sell KodakCoin, and the Kodak KashMiner is a Bitcoin cloud mining scam
This story actually gets better. The KodakCoin is basically not tradeable, and the Kodak KashMiner is an NYSE-listed company promoting a blatant Bitcoin mining scam. I include numbers for this claim.
Kodak’s ICO for a stock photo site that doesn’t exist yet. But the stock price!
A photo site that pays photographers in ICO tokens rather than actual money isn’t the worst idea Kodak floated today. There was also the Kodak KashMiner cloud Bitcoin mining operation …
Fire and Fury: merchant de-adoption, Visa, Bitcoin futures, porn ICO, Ripple, market cap collapse, book pics
“Fire and Fury” seems to be a title that shifts copies, so let’s see how it goes.
Be your own bank! Every Bitcoin Electrum wallet since 2015 is insecure, update now
Electrum turns out to have been completely insecure — any web page you go to could have stolen your coins — since 2015.
Bitcoin mining being pushed out of China: what’s happening, and how the shutdown’s being managed
China is worried about crypto mania affecting the real economy. So they’re pressing Bitcoin miners toward a phased shutdown, and ending subsidies on electricity and land.
News: NiceHash pay out, smart contracts, Australian banks, Coinbase vs Ripple, Meltdown vs cryptos, Dungeon World
“Unfortunately the horrible Charlie Brooker future we’re living in is Nathan Barley not Black Mirror.”
Why you can’t cash out pt 3: Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme! It just works like one
“A fish bowl with no food in it that fish keep jumping into because they heard it’s an all-you-can-eat buffet. And for the meanest fish, it is.” Why most Bitcoin on-paper “wealth” can never be realised.