Blockchain and cryptocurrency news and analysis by David Gerard
One piece of cryptocurrency transparency I’d really like to see from UNICEF — a full conflict-of-interest accounting of the crypto hodlings of everyone there promoting “blockchain.”
Crypto in general is a complicated machine to funnel decreasing supplies of actual-money from retail suckers to about twenty guys.
What are some of the ways things could go bad if Libra gets huge — even given Marcus’ responses?
One for crypto fans, but surprisingly good for a Kindle Unlimited quickie.
Burniske and Tatar published this book in the throes of a manic asset bubble, explicitly encouraging naive retail investors — retirees — to throw their savings into the bubble. Let’s see how it’s aged.
When you take dumb ideas, but you put some serious real-world power behind them … they’re still dumb ideas.
FINMA published their guidance on stablecoins today — answering a request from Libra, but covering the stablecoin area more broadly.
I asked some crypto contacts what questions normal people have been asking them about Facebook’s whacky crypto-Bitcoiny thing — and any questions they had themselves.
Ethereum is the World Computer! As long as you don’t try to use it for any sort of real application.
“Dr. Wright’s story not only was not supported by other evidence in the record, it defies common sense and real-life experience.”