Kodak pt 5: KodakCoin ICO Light Paper finally released!
WENN Digital have finally released their long-awaited KodakCoin ICO Light Paper! I go through this SAFT in detail. Summary: lol.
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News: Kraken loses Japanese banking, Marshall Islands issues crypto, Québec vs miners, UK Labour vs cryptos, failed ICOs, Bitcoin usage declines, BTC Global
“The traditional banking partners that Kraken needs to work with are not able to keep up with the demands of the growing Bitcoin economy” — not Roger Ver, but what Kraken actually just claimed.
ICO tokens won’t fix journalism either, and certainly not with company scrip
Journalism is desperate for a way to survive economically. But ICO tokens predicated on automating away the human element probably aren’t it.
News: Financial Times, UK Parliament, SEC, Overstock, GDPR, France, Kleiman vs Wright, Lightning Network, IOTA
The big news: the SEC finally gets into asking ICO promoters what the hell they were thinking.
Get a signed copy of Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain!
I have some actual books here! You can buy one from me! The perfect companion for that ebook copy.
News: me at Financial Times, SEC vs ICOs, Russia vs ICOs, ICO buyers vs ICOs, crypto scammers on Twitter, IOTA replay attacks, Stolfi vs NIST
If you’re in London, come and see me discuss the future of Bitcoin and blockchains at the Financial Times on Tuesday!
News: Venezuelan Petro, BitFunder arrest, Ethereum security holes, Long Blockchain, bad blockchain legislation, DAICOs
No, nobody can make sense of Venezuela’s Petro, because it doesn’t make sense. Plus more bad blockchain legislation, and SEC charges for fraudulent behaviour dating back to the Golden Age of Bitcoin.
News: Tether in the Netherlands and Puerto Rico, CoinHive thefts, CFTC pump-and-dump bounties, the market is stupid
Tether’s banking may be more interesting than we thought.
Leaked: A bad EU motion promoting blockchains coming up for vote — contact your MEPs
The EU Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) is voting on a motion that’s a compendium of every spurious hypothetical blockchain use case they could find — so it’s worth answering in full. Contact your MEPs as well.
Salon mines in readers’ browsers — usual false claims in FAQ about “unused computing power”
“Bitcoin is a malignant development, and it’s getting worse” — Salon, December 2017.