Sistema de Dinero Electrónico (2014–2018) — Ecuador’s sort-of CBDC
Don’t try to back your payment system with a bank that your users don’t trust with their money.
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The crypto market as a single unified scam
Everybody is excited by the novelty of it all, and think that with so many different games, they can surely find one where they can win.
News: DeFi in full mania, Australian Senate fintech report, Bank of England on Libra, Care Bears on the blockchain
HOW TO DESTROY ETHEREUM: use it for something. This cripples it every time.
Podcast interview: One Knight In Product
What’s blockchain good for? Are smart contracts smart? If Del Boy were around today, would he be selling Bitcoin?
News: Bitcoin’s enterprise use case, the Voice experience, Reggie Fowler, Quorum to Consensys, DeFi cease-and-desist
POLICE TO BLACKMAILER: Let’s meet in person, so we can hand you the untraceable cryptocurrency in full view of a surveillance camera.
A history of Libra’s predecessor, Messenger Pay — the first version of Facebook Pay
You may be on Facebook lots — but would you trust Facebook with your money? For most people, the answer was “no.”
Balaji Srinivasan’s plan to save journalism
A venture capitalist on how to save journalism — or save venture capitalists from journalism, in any case.
News: A fool and his money are soon decentralised, Kodak rides again, Ledger data breach, $100k Bitcoin
And Bitcoin nearly hits $100,000! … for a very brief time.
Libra book cutting room floor: Previous basket-based currencies
The Libra book probably won’t have to include a short history of currency baskets before I can talk about why the original plan for the Libra reserve was ridiculously terrible. So I’ve posted it here.