News: Coincheck hack, YouTube ads with crypto miners, Cobinhood exchange goes Tether-only
Plus some interesting and useful opinion pieces.
What do ICO “advisors” do? Paid endorsements, and … that’s about all
Back in the innocent days of a few months ago, I thought ICO advisors were there to advise. I might multiply my rate for ICO advice 100× going forward.
“Children of Satoshi”: an ICO-funded TV action drama about Bitcoin
Coming soon: expensive crowdsourced Bitcoin fan fiction.
News: Friedman LLP parts with Bitfinex, Weiss Crypto Ratings, Netherlands, SEC, ICOs, Venezuela, Arsenal
I’m 5000 words into a 1500-word article on Tether, and 1000 words into a 300-word intro to IOTA. Meanwhile, elsewhere …
Podcast interview with David Birch about Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain: how and why
In which I am interviewed by David Birch, author of Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin, about Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain. Hear how and why I wrote this thing!
News: SEC, Tether, Lightning Network economics, altcoin pumping, even Ripple users don’t use XRP
Some more news bits while I endeavour to untangle Tether.
News: 450m Tethers this week, BitConnect shuts down, GPU miner viruses, US Treasury, unbanking the banked, altcoin fraud
And James Altucher claims to know who Satoshi Nakamoto is, and that he reads Satoshi’s blog daily. Huge if true.
Book news: discounted on Kindle this month, first CreateSpace book in New York Review of Books, IT’S OVER 5000 sold
Adventures in accidentally publishing a slightly popular book.
‘Tis just a seasonal dip! Watching the Bitcoin fire from a safe distance — what just happened
The price of Bitcoin started collapsing this morning. I’m not going to be so foolish as to call it, but I am saying “I told you so” — the only actual money people will get out is actual money that other people put in.
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