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!
Tag: blockchain
News: DRM on JPEG images on the blockchain, BlockFi user data breached, TornadoCash mixer goes full DAO, the plant cuttings asset bubble
If you could put two flies crawling up a wall on the blockchain, I’m pretty sure crypto day traders would bet on fly futures.
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.
VeriPart: 3-D printed aircraft parts, but on the blockchain — for no good reason
It’s nearly the end of 2019, and the Wall Street Journal is still running puff-pieces on stupid blockchain tricks.
News: IDAX and Upbit hacks, Binance threatens The Block, Tether sued again, Libra Association, Craig Wright attorney fees, EOS centralises
Come see me on the Intelligence Squared panel in London on Thursday afternoon — free!
News: Libra and stablecoins and FinCEN, China still hates crypto trading, Tether
And I’m doing another Intelligence Squared on Thursday 5 December — and this one’s free!
News: Tether sued, ether is a commodity, proof of work is still awful, IRS releases incomprehensible guidance
If you’re going to do crimes, don’t do them on a permanent immutable public ledger of all transactions.
The Gartner Hype Cycle is … hype. Don’t use it as an excuse.
Advocates of failed technologies grasp at the Gartner Hype Cycle because it tells them their success is inevitable.
News: Bitcoin crashes despite Bakkt, Crypto Rating Council, Libra, Tether stay, Kik shuts down Messenger, Craig Wright’s apparent plagiarism, CoinDesk shakeup
Watch me debate Bitcoin as a reserve currency tomorrow!
UNICEF’s Innovation Fund slides from “blockchain” into cryptocurrencies
One piece of cryptocurrency transparency I’d really like to see from UNICEF — a full conflict-of-interest accounting of the crypto hodlings of everyone there promoting “blockchain.”