Mone and Barrowman’s Dubai Bitcoin property scheme: for holders with more bitcoins than sense
I sometimes wonder at PR companies trying to declare unsolicited and unarranged “embargoes” when emailing non-fluff journalists.
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Estonia’s smartcard security problem is probably not blockchain-related — but what is Estonia’s “KSI Blockchain”?
What is KSI Blockchain, the technology at the heart of Estonia’s heavily-publicised Blockchain™ initiatives? Answer: less than it appears. Firstly, it’s not actually a blockchain.
ICO of the day: Synthetic rhino horn erection pills, on the Blockchain
To write an ICO white paper, you must: 1. State a problem. 2. Assert that ERC-20 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain will solve it. I don’t think there are any other steps.
The Bitcoin versus Bitcoin Cash split: What it means and what you should do
An explanation of what’s behind Bitcoin Cash versus Bitcoin, what it all means and what you should do now.
Book news: four figures of sales, blog reviews, new excerpt on Hypebot
What’s been happening with Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain, and how you can help.
News: What Estcoin is for, the bear case for crypto, mining security, Bitfinex audits, NiceHash drops AMD.
Short bits from the past few days.
The SEC told you it was watching — now it’s calling ICO promoters: Protostarr, BenjaCoin …
Protostarr is an aspiring entertainment industry company that was running an ICO. The ICO has been shut down after a call from the SEC. And they’re not the only ones to get a call.
Kik’s ICO for a centralised “cryptocurrency:” a desperation move at the venture capital drying up
Startup funding is always a tricky one. How about an ICO for struggling instant messaging startup Kik to get money from crypto gamblers without diluting their ownership? Offering a “general purpose cryptocurrency” to take cryptocurrency “mainstream,” that’s only slightly completely centralised.
Entertainment on the Blockchain with ICOs, over at Rocknerd
Today’s blockchain post is over at my music blog, Rocknerd — about Opus (streaming record distribution on the blockchain), Viberate (live music on the blockchain) and Kim Dotcom’s k.im (Dotcom being Dotcom on the blockchain). All of these have an ICO, of course, and two have convicted felons!
Bitcoin versus American Express: a normal person’s reaction to $7 transaction fees
Bitcoin is clogging again, and transaction fees are going up again. I tweeted about this and a normal person I know, to whom this was news, worked out what this meant …