News: Ripple’s partners are fog, Bitcoin ups and downs and downs, Kik vs SEC, unbanking the banked
QuadrigaCX’s Litecoin “cold” wallets are being drained as I write this.
Tag: bitcoin
News: Civil ripped off its journalists, Bitfinex untethers Tether, working at Trezor, Amazon Managed Blockchain
Any company that tries to pay your wages in company scrip — rather than actual money — should be treated as fraudulent trash.
News: Bitcoin crashes, Tether wobbles, the mining business is not so great, Bail Bloc, Binance, Bitcoin Cash split
In a survey of 1000 US investors, none — actually zero — thought owning Bitcoin was a good idea.
News: Poloniex NDA to get your own money back, Bisq sets up a DAO, Bitcoin over Ethereum
The technical term for “immutable smart contract, immune to human interference” is “sitting duck for hackers.”
Vincent Chen and Wallok: 99 Bitcoins and an Elephant — warn your children about the grim cyberpunk future
A fully-worked example of Silicon Valley tunnel vision, where bitcoiners’ dreams of the grim meathook post-apocalyptic Mad Max petrolpunk future have come true.
DPW restores hydroelectric plant in upstate NY for crypto mining. That’s good, right? And promotes the AntEater mining rig!
DPW would do far better just selling the electricity locally. This plan doesn’t make sense as a business.
News: Bitmain IPO, Bitcoin and Tether, Terpin v. AT&T, NVidia hates crypto, Vietman blocks mining rigs, Playboy v. GBT, Ethereum Ponzis, Bitcoin bail, Maersk v. shipping industry
Bitcoin explained: “imagine if keeping your car idling 24/7 produced solved Sudokus you could trade for heroin.”
News: BitFi hack, Court of the Blockchain, BitForex fake volume, .luxe for Ethereum domain names, crypto mining still environmentally awful, Bitcoin still useless, Tether
You can definitely trust John McAfee on all crypto-related matters. Maybe.
News: Bitcoin $9000, Tether $1.08, US cross-agency task force, Bancor hack, DIRT, Augur, LSE, Ethereum Classic
CRYPTO STANDS FOR CRYPTOSPORIDIUM.