News: $3b Bitcoin scam, BitConnect, Tezos ruling, bad ICO news, BitFi, Augur, Voatz
Alli and I really need to get on with the T-shirt and merchandise selection.
The JPEG Committee is “exploring Blockchain” — to put DRM into JPEG
Advancing the cause of DRMed JPEGs with a bit of applied blockchain.
The OKEx margin trading disaster — how crypto margin trading goes wrong
How the eye-watering margin leverage on crypto exchanges works in practice, and what happens when things go wrong.
The Lite Podcast 1.8: David Gerard and Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
I go on ECurrencyHodler’s podcast, The Lite Podcast. This was good.
West Virginia and the Voatz “blockchain” voting system — scaling and security concerns
The slapstick comedy horror saga of a plucky little blockchain startup who aren’t quite ready for every state-level hacker in the world, or more than eleven voters.
News: BitFi hack, Court of the Blockchain, BitForex fake volume, .luxe for Ethereum domain names, crypto mining still environmentally awful, Bitcoin still useless, Tether
You can definitely trust John McAfee on all crypto-related matters. Maybe.
The ICO that Grant Shapps quit — OpenBrix, a property website on the blockchain
Jemima Kelly from FT asked UK Member of Parliament Grant Shapps just one question about the OpenBrix ICO, and hilarity ensued.
News: TRON paying BitTorrent seeders, crypto miners in games, SIM hijacking, blockchain is useless, Bitcoin is useless, James Mickens
I particularly commend the James Mickens video.
Augur’s big problem is not the assassination markets — it’s being a bucket shop
Assassination markets on Augur are in the news lately — but I think their practical problem’s going to be the SEC and CFTC — who really don’t like bucket shops.
News: Intelligence Squared podcast, SEC rejects Bitcoin ETF, eMusic are broke, Ethereum ponzis incompetent as well as bad, Brock Pierce on Australian TV
Brock Pierce getting yelled at is quality television.