Coinbase drops margin trading — because Bitcoin doesn’t scale
Coinbase told the CFTC that their internal systems use a ledger in an ordinary database … because the Bitcoin blockchain couldn’t possibly scale to their transaction load.
Tag: blockchain
Blockchain: Magic (Probably) Doesn’t Happen — Sam’s Class, 21 November 2020
A talk to Sam Bowne’s class CNIT 141: Cryptography for Computer Networks, at City College of San Francisco.
News: Filecoin, CoinDesk, money-laundering busts, Libra barred until 2023, BitMEX and Roko’s Basilisk
Filecoin: Must die, bye bye, bye bye.
News: DeFi in full mania, Australian Senate fintech report, Bank of England on Libra, Care Bears on the blockchain
HOW TO DESTROY ETHEREUM: use it for something. This cripples it every time.
Podcast interview: One Knight In Product
What’s blockchain good for? Are smart contracts smart? If Del Boy were around today, would he be selling Bitcoin?
News: A fool and his money are soon decentralised, Kodak rides again, Ledger data breach, $100k Bitcoin
And Bitcoin nearly hits $100,000! … for a very brief time.
News: Blockchain handouts, Wirecard UK, WhatsApp Pay Brazil, 10 billion tethers
It’s right there in the white paper — cryptocurrency is about government handouts.
News: Wirecard, Abramoff and AML BitCoin, Mr Craig Wright’s Ph.D. thesis disappears
“Techbrorati in Berlin idolized this guy. Don’t let them say otherwise.”
Saudi Arabia goes blockchain! … maybe? Who knows
Ginned-up non-news keeps the content engines churning. Quick! More copy! There’s ads to fail to sell!