cftc – Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

News: Compound threatens to dox its own users, El Salvador Chivo numbers, China hates crypto, Twitter tips, Tether class action proceeds

3rd October 20213rd October 2021 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

“Libertarian” is when I take your money, it’s different if you take mine.

News: Bitcoin miners can’t sell their bitcoins, SushiSwap theft, Coinbase Lend, crypto seasteading

21st September 202122nd September 2021 - by David Gerard - 4 Comments.

’Twas on the good ship ’Toshi, by Craig you should have seen us, it was a little squashy and the end result was “penis.”

News: the Senate has mild contempt for Bitcoin, Tether and USDC attestations, DeFi Money Market and Poloniex settle with SEC, Poly Network hack

12th August 202120th October 2021 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

Bitcoin is anti-fragile! Except against governments.

News: Stopping ransomware, China hates miners, Ecuador CBDC history, NFTs still too hard to buy

16th June 202121st June 2021 - by David Gerard - 3 Comments.

Things happened that aren’t in El Salvador!

News: vanishing NFTs, Free Keene not so free, Coinbase wash-trading Litecoin

29th March 202111th April 2021 - by David Gerard - Leave a Comment

Pavel Durov is delighted to share that he can finally pay back the guys who put money into the Telegram ICO, and that he will continue to enjoy the use of his limbs.

News: Twitter on the blockchain, the US coup on the blockchain, Gensler in at the SEC, Ripple ex-CTO loses Bitcoin keys

14th January 202116th January 2021 - by David Gerard - 3 Comments.

The price went up in a triangular Fibonacci double-reacharound formation, moderated somewhat by both Makemake and Haumea being in Libra.

Coinbase drops margin trading — because Bitcoin doesn’t scale

25th November 202026th November 2020 - by David Gerard - 3 Comments.

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.