Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

News: Bitfinex/Tether v. New York, Cryptopia hack coins moving, HitBTC may be insolvent, Craig Wright copyright registration, SEC v. ICOs, money laundering is still illegal with Bitcoins

How much do you need to annoy a government agency that it starts a whole new press page just to refute your claims?
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Facebook’s GlobalCoin — why are they doing it as a cryptocurrency?

No answer to the biggest question — why on earth would you do this on a blockchain in the first place?
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Craig Wright registers US copyright in Bitcoin 0.1 and the Bitcoin white paper — what this means

What can Wright do with this? Not a lot, really.
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Number go down — the single trade that crashed Bitcoin

I told you so. Thanks everyone, for this week’s game of “Bitcoin: Moon or Toilet”!
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News: McAfee may be in US custody, NY AG v. Bitfinex/Tether, Cryptopia shuts, Quadriga money still gone, Tapscott busted

HOW DO THESE EXCHANGE HACKS KEEP HAPPENING, IT IS A MYSTERY FOR (checks stopwatch) THE AGES
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Bitcoin is going through the roof! — it’s manipulation with Tethers, not organic demand

Number go up! This is totally organic market activity! People just really like Bitcoin 40% more than they did last week!
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News: Number go up, Bitfinex/Tether/Crypto Capital latest, blockchain supply chains still bad, another crypto ETF

The important thing about the Bitcoin price is that both Makemake and Haumea are in Libra right now. Obviously.
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FinCEN’s guidance on crypto business models — are you a money transmitter?

If you’re transmitting value that substitutes for currency, FinCEN’s Bank Secrecy Act will probably apply. This is about activities, not status or labels.
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Binance hacked — largest Tether exchange cuts off withdrawals for the next week

Crypto exchange hacks are incredibly rare, and only happen every month or so. Here’s hoping there’s no big Bitcoin price crash before withdrawals are back on!
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News: Bitfinex and Tether latest, Craig Wright: man of action, India to ban cryptos

Wright: “I was shot twice, and evidence of it is likely to still exist on the Internet for all my efforts to have destroyed it.” Which is why he posted it to Medium, where nobody will ever see it.
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