ICO tokens won’t fix journalism either, and certainly not with company scrip
Journalism is desperate for a way to survive economically. But ICO tokens predicated on automating away the human element probably aren’t it.
News: Financial Times, UK Parliament, SEC, Overstock, GDPR, France, Kleiman vs Wright, Lightning Network, IOTA
The big news: the SEC finally gets into asking ICO promoters what the hell they were thinking.
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News: me at Financial Times, SEC vs ICOs, Russia vs ICOs, ICO buyers vs ICOs, crypto scammers on Twitter, IOTA replay attacks, Stolfi vs NIST
If you’re in London, come and see me discuss the future of Bitcoin and blockchains at the Financial Times on Tuesday!
News: Venezuelan Petro, BitFunder arrest, Ethereum security holes, Long Blockchain, bad blockchain legislation, DAICOs
No, nobody can make sense of Venezuela’s Petro, because it doesn’t make sense. Plus more bad blockchain legislation, and SEC charges for fraudulent behaviour dating back to the Golden Age of Bitcoin.
News: Tether in the Netherlands and Puerto Rico, CoinHive thefts, CFTC pump-and-dump bounties, the market is stupid
Tether’s banking may be more interesting than we thought.
Leaked: A bad EU motion promoting blockchains coming up for vote — contact your MEPs
The EU Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) is voting on a motion that’s a compendium of every spurious hypothetical blockchain use case they could find — so it’s worth answering in full. Contact your MEPs as well.
Salon mines in readers’ browsers — usual false claims in FAQ about “unused computing power”
“Bitcoin is a malignant development, and it’s getting worse” — Salon, December 2017.
Do you need a Blockchain? Probably less than Wüst and Gervais think you do
Wüst and Gervais’ paper “Do you need a Blockchain?” is pretty good, but goes a bit far in claiming use cases for blockchains. You’ll basically never need a so-called “permissioned blockchain.”
News: Hardware wallet hack, IOTA review, Mone & Barrowman, 419 ICO, Roko’s Basilisk on the blockchain
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