Me in BitcoinBlog.de: “Bitcoin piles up so many layers of ideas that are bad or wrong or just don’t work.”
Christoph Bergmann of BitcoinBlog.de interviewed me about Facebook’s Libra (now Diem), about Libra Shrugged and about Bitcoin.
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Blockchain Debate Podcast: Diem Is a Glorified PayPal
I’m doing the Blockchain Debate Podcast again on Thursday 17 December! My opponent on this question is Bryce Weiner.
News: Coinbase key holders leave, Ethereum 2.0 slashing, Libra may not become Diem, regulatory clarity in France
“If the business channel you watch leads its forex ticker with buttcoin price, you should switch the channel.”
Tether is ‘too big to fail’ — the entire cryptocurrency industry utterly depends on it
We just topped twenty billion alleged dollars’ worth of tethers! If you think this is sustainable, you’re a fool.
Facebook’s Libra is now Diem; STABLE Act says stablecoins must get banking licenses
The US has a fair chance of obliterating the US crypto trading stablecoin market in the quest to rein in Facebook’s bad idea.
News: DeFi pickled, Binance sues Forbes, crypto Ponzi via underwater scooter
I have been scammed 6 months ago. Now someone is calling me from BTC REFUND DEPARTMENT. He said that I have under my name the bitcoins that have been scammed. Is this a scam?
Facebook’s Libra may launch January 2021, with US dollars only — what this means
Paypal-but-it’s-Facebook, with US dollars. The European Central Bank is likely to still hate the idea.
Get signed copies of Libra Shrugged and Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain!
We can’t get out and about while Corona-chan continues prancing about on her pale horse — but I can probably get down the post office with signed copies of the paper-based Non-Fungible Tokens!
Coinbase drops margin trading — because Bitcoin doesn’t scale
Coinbase told the CFTC that their internal systems use a ledger in an ordinary database … because the Bitcoin blockchain couldn’t possibly scale to their transaction load.
Blockchain: Magic (Probably) Doesn’t Happen — Sam’s Class, 21 November 2020
A talk to Sam Bowne’s class CNIT 141: Cryptography for Computer Networks, at City College of San Francisco.