News: LocalBitcoins less local, Cryptopia, QuadrigaCX, crypto banking, Telegram, Wirecard, EOS Voice, Kik and Defund Crypto, Wright gets a copyright competitor
So much for the “business deals in parking lots” market.
Tag: australia
News: Bitfinex and Tether latest, Craig Wright: man of action, India to ban cryptos
Wright: “I was shot twice, and evidence of it is likely to still exist on the Internet for all my efforts to have destroyed it.” Which is why he posted it to Medium, where nobody will ever see it.
News: Bithumb and DragonEx hacked, Quadriga latest, MetaMask security, Craig Wright legal threats
“craig wright is not satoshi, in the exact same way that you or i are not satoshi” — Boxturret.
News: Bitcointopia busted, OneCoin busted, 1pool busted, Canada audits crypto traders
Canada has a sudden interest in regulating cryptocurrency.
News: Me in Athens on Sunday, Australian ICO inquiry, Ripple, QuadrigaCX, enterprise blockchain, JPMorgan Coin
Just call me Tom Marvolo Ripple — Lorp Volpemort.
The Australian National Blockchain: centralised IBM “smart contracts” for lawyers — with no code yet, only concept
“A giant shared but segmented database, with the word ‘blockchain’ stuck on it.” All on the IBM Cloud.
Transcript: Digital Transformation Agency on blockchain to Australian Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee, Tuesday 23 October 2018
The widely-reported quote was: “For every use of blockchain that you would consider today there is a better technology.” The full transcript goes into more nuance.
News: Australia “nah mate” to blockchains, Bitfinex/Tether push Rothschild conspiracy theories, JPEG blockchain DRM, miners as locusts, Initiative Q
“The market can stay irrational longer than you can retain hope for humanity.”
News: The SEC swings into action, Marshall Islands SOV, Papua New Guinea, new stablecoins, Indian crypto legality, R3 and Ripple settle, Star Xu of Okex detained, KodakCoin
You know how everyone was wondering when the SEC would do something about the crypto space? Looks like they’re getting into motion.
News: CBOE Ether futures, the invisible Petro, Civil and Associated Press, BitFi hacked worse
Plus good papers, opinion pieces and followups. And why surveys claiming amazing mainstream crypto uptake!! are made-up rubbish. Also, go hear Edmund Schuster and Angela Walch on Tuesday afternoon.