Cryptocurrency, blockchains and markets — Queen’s University Belfast, Tuesday 22 February 2022
I did a talk for William Quinn’s final year fintech class at Queen’s University Belfast. 1 hour talk, 1 hour questions.
News: BBC pulls crypto documentary, sports NFT failures, mining in Siberia
“Does Anyone else working in a crypto company feel this is all a scam?”
Could Morgan and Lichtenstein have done the 2016 Bitfinex hack? I’m not ruling it out
The hack reeks of social engineering for insider information, not sophisticated computer science brilliance.
CityCoins — free magical money for your city! Maybe
Affinity fraud is where you pitch to a defined group, saying “I’m one of you. Would I scam you?”
News: World Wildlife NFT, Diem sale details, ECCB DCash offline
Admittedly, NFTs are not as bad as that time the WWF ended up funding mercenaries to rape, torture and kill suspected poachers. Whoops!
Bored Ape Yacht Club and neo-Nazis: So much reaching for just four bananas — by Georg Kraml
On the essay claiming that the people behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT offering are Nazis. Guest post by Georg Kraml.
News: Twitter hexagons, Binance plays at compliance, Bitcoin Widow tour, Russia
I changed my own Twitter avatar to a pentagon, to show my allegiance to the fiat petrodollar.
Michael Patryn of QuadrigaCX is back — as 0xSifu from DeFi protocol Wonderland
I was wondering what Patryn had been up to after Quadriga — serial fraudsters like Patryn don’t just stop.
Facebook’s Libra is still dead — Diem to be sold off for spare parts
Maybe Libra was just very stupid. Because it was a blockchain project started by bitcoiners. Maybe it was always just dumb as hell.
Bitcoin goes down — and time bombs are waiting in the market
Crypto is suffering a supply chain shortage of greater fools.