Cryptocurrency in 2021: still dysfunctional nonsense, unusable by normal humans
The blockchain is the future of finance! Because it sure as heck isn’t the present.
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Facebook’s Diem stablecoin moves to the US, and hooks up with Silvergate Bank
The Diem USD stablecoin will be issued by Silvergate Bank — the national bank of crypto.
Tether publishes … two pie charts of its reserves
Does nine lines of text on two pie charts satisfy Tether’s agreement with the New York Attorney General to publish a breakdown of its reserves?
News: Bitcoin mining is not green, miners versus programmers, gold is cleaner than bitcoin, exchanges collapse, how to forge an NFT
“Maybe your cryptocurrency is different. But look: you’re in really poor company. When you’re the only honest person in the room, maybe you should be in a different room.”
News: Coinbase goes public, Bitcoin hashrate goes down, NFTs go down, proof-of-space trashes hard disk market
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Stilgherrian: The 9pm Dumb Anarcho-Capitalist Blockchain Scams with David Gerard
“The following episode of The 9pm Edict contains strong language, financial crimes, and some sad truths about humanity.”
Podcast: I Don’t Speak German #85: Crypto Fascists, with David Gerard
This podcast is not about Bitcoin — it’s about Nazis. But neo-Nazis like Bitcoin, ‘cos they keep getting kicked off the actual-money payment processors.
Desperate investors, neoliberalism and Keynes: how to increase returns
The problem with neoliberalism is that you eventually run out of other people’s public institutions to asset-strip.
New York’s Excelsior Pass for COVID-19, on IBM Blockchain: doing the wrong thing, badly
Corona-chan looks forward to seeing you out and about!
Signal Messenger goes cryptocurrency with MobileCoin: proof-of-Intel-CPU
“Regulatory clarity” is a crypto phrase meaning “why can’t I do this obviously and hilariously illegal thing, if I just sprinkle some crypto on top?”