News: International crypto tax crimes force, Coinbase Custody and ETC, ERC-20 vulnerability database, UBI Blockchain, Li Xiaolai tells the truth, Lightning Network
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain is CDN$1.99 in Canada, July only!
Intelligence Squared: “Blockchain: Quantum leap forward or digital snake oil?” last night — Monday 2 July 2018
Last night’s event was great fun, and if you weren’t there you missed out.
Cryptocurrency ads to the general public are unethical misselling, and should be banned
One hundred percent of people selling cryptos to retirees are scammers.
News: Me at Intelligence Squared on Monday, darknet busts, Ross Ulbricht appeal rejected, Bitfinex/Tether, Expedia drops Bitcoin, GiveCrypto
No, there wasn’t a double-spend on Tether — just an exchange error. And the Lightning Network still doesn’t work. And don’t forget Intelligence Squared on Monday!
IBM, the GDPR and “blockchain” — whatever that word specifically means
The problem with special rules for “blockchains” is that there’s no definition of “blockchain” other than “whatever I’m trying to sell you right now.”
BattBump update — the project backs down on its claims, then cancels and vanishes
BattBump — the app to wirelessly charge a phone from another phone — has just cancelled their project, after having had probably not the best of days.
News: me at Intelligence Squared next Monday, Lightning Network 99% failure rate, Nvidia video card glut, Microsoft/EY blockchain, Reserve Bank of Australia, US Secret Service, art on the blockchain
The Lightning Network must be the future of Bitcoin scaling! ‘Cos it’s a stupendous failure in the present.
BattBump — wireless phone-to-phone charging, on the blockchain
A good Kickstarter can’t be stopped by mere laws of physics. Also, it utilises Blockchain technology.
Initiative Q — a non-crypto private currency, marketed by pyramid scheme
“Initiative Q is building a new payment network. To get people to adopt it, they’re giving away significant sums of their future currency to early users.” It’s not a crypto, but it has similar smells.
News: Mt. Gox recovers, Bitcoin crashes, Bitfinex/Tether, Kaminska to Parliament, Hydro-Québec, TRON, EOS, Nano insecure keys
“I hate these extremely rare occurrences of crypto exchanges getting hacked once a week.”