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
And a podcast featuring me and the book.
Bitfinex’ed Twitter suspension, and Bitfinex and Tether updates
“Bitfinex’ed”‘s Twitter got blocked, and the Tether printer started up again, just in time for the crypto price pump! Plus Tether legal concerns, and a timeline of Bitfinex and Tether.
Kodak pt 4: Kerrisdale Capital’s blistering crypto pre-mortem for Kodak
This is the final word on Kodak’s crypto boondoggles. And it’s brutal.
Video cards are getting cheap again! Proceed with caution
Cryptos have crashed, and altcoin miners are already selling their video cards. Buy wisely — that is to say, not from them.
News: China blocks cryptos, UK banks block cryptos, NYT on frauds, Lightning Network
It’s been a watershed day for Bitcoin, and … oh, that’s not water.
News: NiceHash, credit cards cut off cryptos, Ethereum predictable “random” numbers, deanonymising Tor, Bail Bloc
With nice writeups of my book and related books.