Silvergate, banker to the crypto world, is going down
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Regulatory clarity: doomed US crypto bills, Nigeria’s CBDC lacks repeat users, central banks don’t like crypto either
At least the Agriculture Committee has a lot of experience with cowboys and bull manure.
News: Craig Wright loses, baseball Bitcoin, Kickstarter on the blockchain, Australian crypto scams
A human centipede ouroboros of scammers scamming scammers scamming scammers.
Stablecoins: Tether, Libra, the President’s Working Group, the IMF
Phrases like “macro critical levels” are what central bankers say when they’re sounding the air-raid sirens.
Libra Shrugged — Chapter 15: Central bank digital currencies
An excerpt a year after the book’s publication — because I keep referring people to this chapter. Buy the book for more!
News: Binance vs. the world, VanEck ETF, Robinhood fined, AfriCrypt Ponzi, mass ransomware attack
I am Elmer J. FUD, nocoiner. I own a mansion and a yacht.
News: Stopping ransomware, China hates miners, Ecuador CBDC history, NFTs still too hard to buy
Things happened that aren’t in El Salvador!
News: Coinbase goes public, Bitcoin hashrate goes down, NFTs go down, proof-of-space trashes hard disk market
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Libra book cutting room floor: Previous basket-based currencies
The Libra book probably won’t have to include a short history of currency baskets before I can talk about why the original plan for the Libra reserve was ridiculously terrible. So I’ve posted it here.
News: Coronavirus kills conferences, India un-bans crypto, Bitcoin catches a cold
“FCA are like the SEC If they forgot to do their job, ever” — Ben Munster