News: 2020 predictions, ICO fallout, Craig Wright, Qatar and Uzbekistan block cryptos, Bitcoin and censorship, Libra
The Bitcoin white paper’s elegant simplicity only exists in a perfectly spherical monetary system in a vacuum at absolute zero.
Tag: charlie shrem
News: Bitcointopia busted, OneCoin busted, 1pool busted, Canada audits crypto traders
Canada has a sudden interest in regulating cryptocurrency.
News: more coal-powered Bitcoin mining, Colorado vs. ICOs, Bitfinex withdrawal issues, the decline of “blockchain”
Bitfinex’s banking arrangements are fine — so long as you don’t try to get your money out.
News: Tether, Winklevoss vs Shrem, regulation, Consensys asteroid mining, Ethereum analysis, Proof of Work is still awful
You can see the clear synergies between an Ethereum development house and asteroid mining … right?
News: Tether pump fails, ETFs rejected, China blocks more exchanges, NotPetya ransomware, how FOMO3D was won, XYO goes Reg A+
The possibility of it being worth someone’s while to just DDOS you is almost never mentioned as a problem with smart contracts.
Eric Geissinger: Virtual Billions — looking at Bitcoin through a libertarian lens
A book given to historical rambling, but the Ross Ulbricht/Silk Road chapter is particularly good and insightful on what happens when you overextend an ideology to the point of monstrosity.