Tag: bitcoin
Foreign Policy: Twitter Got Lucky With the Great Bitcoin Heist
Other people’s personal data requires controls as strong as the controls on other people’s money.
News: Estonia not so keen on crypto, Peter Todd settles sexual assault defamation claim, how Compound works, bye bye Wirecard
My “not buying cryptos to launder money” shirt is raising a lot of questions answered by the shirt.
Guest post: The Last Last Word on Bitcoin’s (horrifying) Energy Consumption
A response to Nic Carter’s “The Last Word on Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption” (CoinDesk, 19 May 2020), by Michael Reece Purson.
News: not Craig Wright’s bitcoins, how Tether flows, Goldman Sachs spurns Bitcoin, Calibra is now Novi
“Craig Steven Wright is a liar and a fraud. He doesn’t have the keys used to sign this message.”
News: Purse.io shuts down, Chinese CBDC test, new Libra member Heifer, North Korea does not dump its bitcoins
Zack Voell from CoinDesk fights the good fight to destroy the crypto markets, and do Buttcoin — and North Korea — proud.
Me on Finance Magnates podcast with Rachel McIntosh — Libra, CBDCs, the Bitcoin trading market
I recorded a video podcast with Rachel McIntosh from Finance Magnates yesterday, and it’s up already!
News: Cooking Mama and blockchain, the Halvening and Bitcoin Cash, Simple Assurance of Future Trouble, Kraken, Craig Wright: Craigness
Markets are completely screwed, nobody knows what anything is worth, and the hard problem is keeping everyone in basic food and shelter. Nobody cares about your novelty crypto collectibles.
News: Telegram appeals injunction, Adaptive Capital fails, the story of the Petro
Call all you want, but there’s no one home. And you’re not gonna reach my telephone.
News: Numbers go down, MakerDAO, but mostly coronavirus
You can’t buy pies with bitcoins. Or respirators.