News: no crypto banking in India, SEC, Texas treats stablecoins as money transmission, cross-EU crypto rules, Bitmain CEOs step down, Tron is nonsense, Girlfriend on the Blockchain
Girlfriend on the blockchain, I know it’s serious.
KodakOne claims ONE MILLION DOLLARS of … hypothetical copyright-trolling income
Not answered: just how KodakOne’s “artificial intelligence” is supposed to automatically divine the correct email address to send a notice concerning any random web page.
News: Georgia state senator jailed over Bitcoin miners, Bitmain CEOs, stablecoin money laundering, FCA, Kleiman v. Wright, Deltec and Tether, notes from the crash
“In reality, ‘blockchain’ has always just been an attempt to ride crypto’s cool factor. So if coins crash, people stop caring about blockchain.”
The Telegram ICO’s TON blockchain has questionable security, and will probably centralise
I’m pretty sure Nikolai Durov is confident nobody could outsmart him here — he’s thought about it really hard, after all. But what happens when someone comes at the Telegram Open Network with a hammer?
News: Bitmain fires half its employees and all of Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Private exploit, Kleiman v. Wright proceeds
“Exchanges don’t go insolvent, they just repeatedly discover they need to do better KYC.”
News: Brave browser’s opt-out “fundraising” for third parties, fallout from the Bitcoin and Ether price crash, Tether margin trading, UK tax guidance
NUMBER GO UP, December 2017 — “a much bigger run coming in 2018”
NUMBER GO DOWN, December 2018 — actually it’s about the technology, OK,
News: Augur election bet, Po.et cuts staff, BCTerminal sues The Block, Razer Silver cryptominer scam
Finally — Blockchain comes to the Apple II!
The ‘Bart’ — sudden hundreds-of-Bitcoin pumps or dumps, to burn the margin traders
Finance journalists need to stop treating crypto as an efficient market that responds to concerns. It’s a thinly-traded unregulated playground for whales, out to wreck the margin traders.
No, Nick Szabo wasn’t Satoshi Nakamoto in 2014 either
I’m writing an albatross of a book review. The book fingers Szabo as the most likely candidate for Satoshi Nakamoto. So I thought I’d share my pain.
News: Crypto Visa issuer fined by Gibraltar, ICOpocalypse, US Congress, BitMEX, EOS, OmiseGo, Laurie Penny
And the week’s opinion pieces — some sane and lucid … some not so much.