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.
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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.
FT Alphaville Unofficial Tech Chat — David Gerard answers your crypto market questions
Digital gold, Bitcoin mining, CBDCs, DC/EP, Libra and Facebook, corporate crypto purchases, Avalanche and mathcoins, Tether and what happens when the music stops. And Craig Wright.
Finance Magnates podcast: Whatever Happened to Facebook’s Libra? Down the Rabbit Hole with David Gerard
I recorded another podcast with Rachel McIntosh from Finance Magnates — the history of Libra, how Bitcoin-related it is, CBDCs.
News: the collapse of Cred, Binance’s cunning plan, new US regulators, Bitcoin miners run out of cash
I ask one thing of you — please review Libra Shrugged!