News: Securing plutonium, unsecuring Trezor, Twitter, NHS WannaCry, LSE review of the book
I’ve also sold a surprising and pleasing number of books.
Author: David Gerard
The Dilbert ICO: analysing Scott Adams’ crypto offering, WhenHub SAFT
Scott Adams, author of Dilbert, has started something very like an ICO. What’s he offering, and how is it claimed to work?
News: Bitcoin Gold craters, CoinHive DNS hijack, crypto vs credit, regulatory sandboxing, Australia.
Interesting to see the “free money fork” model fail on literally the second attempt.
Commentary: TokenSpread, Nelson Rosario, David Golumbia, Quinn DuPont on The DAO
And Ian Bogost on protecting the plums in your icebox.
Bitcoin in popular culture: Andrew Hickey, “The Basilisk Murders,” ch 1: the sort of person who runs Singularity conferences
An excerpt from The Basilisk Murders by Andrew Hickey, a murder mystery set in a conference about the Singularity.
News: Google vs web miners, who runs a blockchain, market manipulation, ineffable Bitcoin, Tezos
That face when Tim Draper doesn’t buy the line that he spent $1.5 million on “tote bags.”
News: pegged cryptos, Bittrex, Bitcoin uses 5/6 of an Ireland, mattress journalism, suing Satoshi
And Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain is still $3.20 on Kindle Canada!
News: Regulatory warnings, ICO shenanigans, Bitcoin forks, Bitcoin and the yuan
Some ICOs are even dodgier than others; Bitcoin’s fork family; regulators sending more warning shots.
The Russian “cryptoruble” story: what’s actually happening here
The latest “крипторубль” proposal. This time, it’s supported by Putin.
News: Hedge funds and ICOs, Tulip Token ICO, actual money is good, Satoshi was wrong, MMM is good news for Bitcoin
It’s not all things you don’t want to know about Mark Karpelès.