Of course I’m spending hours fiddling with writing tools instead of writing, what else would I be doing. I fail to get along with Scrivener
With bonus taster from forthcoming Libra thing.
News: Libra stumbles on, Bitmex leaks customer list, Crypto Capital Corp arrest and indictment, Tether appeal, Blockchain for China, Kleiman v. Wright settlement fails, Telegram tokens delayed, UK tax for cryptos
“BITCONNECT SAID TO EXIT LIBRA CONSORTIUM FOR FEAR OF BAD PRESS”
What I’m up to this week
I’ve taken a week off work specifically to write stuff — sit down, open laptop, don’t play Angry Birds. (Well, less Angry Birds.)
Keyword: Crypto podcast — David Gerard: Bitcoin is Hilarious Trash
Yesterday I recorded an hour with Keyword: Crypto — and it’s already up!
News: Tether sued, ether is a commodity, proof of work is still awful, IRS releases incomprehensible guidance
If you’re going to do crimes, don’t do them on a permanent immutable public ledger of all transactions.
Facebook and Libra’s terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week — everybody’s left, Dave
“In a way it’s liberating” — David Marcus on almost all the payment companies leaving Libra.
SEC blocks the Telegram ICO — what this means, and what happens now
Telegram’s whole scheme was to skin precisely the retail buyers who securities registration is meant to protect from being ripped off.
Libra before Libra — the rise and fall of Facebook Credits
Libra wasn’t Facebook’s first foray into payment systems. A decade ago, it set up Facebook Credits — to cash in on pay-to-win games.
News: EOS settles with SEC, PayPal dumps Libra, digitised gold, Coinbase triples fees, Bitcoin Foundation is dead
PayPal “remains supportive of Libra’s mission” — so that’s nice.
The Gartner Hype Cycle is … hype. Don’t use it as an excuse.
Advocates of failed technologies grasp at the Gartner Hype Cycle because it tells them their success is inevitable.