News: crypto exchange ransomwared, Neom quantum blockchain city, visions of 2022
Eschew manlet economics.
News: Dead Man’s Switch broadcast, Australian regulation, NSW housing, gaming NFTs, Jean-Louis van der Velde of Tether
Bitcoin fans are gullible. Talk to them about the future of money, throw in a few buzz words and they believe any garbage.
Jennifer Robertson: Bitcoin Widow — Quadriga? I know nothing! Nothing!
“So the truth is, I didn’t know all that much about Gerry or his business.” Well, so much for the one reason we’re reading this.
News: David Marcus quits Facebook, WhatsApp uses Novi, corporate NFT disasters
NFT promoters need to be forced to walk the streets ringing a bell, yelling “UNCLEAN,” and wearing a scarlet ฿.
News: Craig Wright loses, baseball Bitcoin, Kickstarter on the blockchain, Australian crypto scams
A human centipede ouroboros of scammers scamming scammers scamming scammers.
Foreign Policy: Bitcoin Failed in El Salvador. The President Says the Answer Is More Bitcoin.
A version of my previous post about the Volcano Bonds and Bitcoin City, with more geopolitics — this is Foreign Policy, after all.
News: Square goes Block, Wikipedia NFT, El Salvador Bitcoin City plans, where the Chinese mining rigs went
“Sound stupid? Great, you’re all caught up.”
News: Celsius CFO arrested, El Salvador journalists hacked, Senate vs. stablecoins
“The trick in the game is to make losers feel like they are winners, and one of the means of getting them into the trade is by paying them a yield to take on risks they don’t understand.”
Creative Commons is shilling NFTs
Creative Commons is also accepting sponsorships from crypto companies.
Regulatory clarity, extreme edition — anti-money-laundering and crypto: FATF, OFAC, FinCEN
There’s slip-ups in compliance monitoring, and then there’s tweeting your visa for North Korea.