News: Intelligence Squared podcast, SEC rejects Bitcoin ETF, eMusic are broke, Ethereum ponzis incompetent as well as bad, Brock Pierce on Australian TV
Brock Pierce getting yelled at is quality television.
Tag: australia
News: Exitscam.me, UK Treasury, IBM’s dollar-substitute token, Stripe, KodakCoin
And there’s a Wikipedia article on the Kodak KashMiner.
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.
News: Facebook crypto coin, Electrum Pro theft, Upbit raided, Australia, Spanish taxes, Excel coin miners, Ben Shapiro’s Bitcoin IRA
What is bitcoin, anyway? A miserable little pile of nonces.
Get your bitcoins off ACX in Australia while you can, ’cos you’re sure not getting your actual money
The traditional banking partners that ACX.io needs to work with are not able to keep up with the demands of the growing Bitcoin economy.
News: don’t pay ransomware, China, Japan, ICO plagiarism, fake exchange volume, cryptid-currency
Plus some good recent opinion pieces, and book news.
News: NiceHash pay out, smart contracts, Australian banks, Coinbase vs Ripple, Meltdown vs cryptos, Dungeon World
“Unfortunately the horrible Charlie Brooker future we’re living in is Nathan Barley not Black Mirror.”
News: Bitcoin as Ponzi, Australian bank blocks, schadenfreude, Hypebot, books
A quiet day, but with some good bits. Get yourself a good free ebook too.
News: Bitcoin Gold craters, CoinHive DNS hijack, crypto vs credit, regulatory sandboxing, Australia.
Interesting to see the “free money fork” model fail on literally the second attempt.
News: Garza/GAW fine; Russia vs Bitcoin; ICOs in Australia; Tether non-audit; FaunaDB
And blockchain use in the Catalan independence referendum.