News: FCA versus UK crypto, Infura sanctions on Ethereum, BitMEX Reed headed for trial, India
This is the cyberpunk future we deserved — the first NFT rugpull by a nation-state.
Tag: china
News: OpenSea phishing attack, BitMEX execs plead guilty, 2016 DAO hacker maybe found, Cryptsy indictment
“Please, God, I don’t ask for much from You. But give me this. A video of a sad cryptobro, trying to get a beat cop to make a police report about his stolen ape jpeg.”
News: Twitter hexagons, Binance plays at compliance, Bitcoin Widow tour, Russia
I changed my own Twitter avatar to a pentagon, to show my allegiance to the fiat petrodollar.
News: Square goes Block, Wikipedia NFT, El Salvador Bitcoin City plans, where the Chinese mining rigs went
“Sound stupid? Great, you’re all caught up.”
El Salvador: A $1 billion Bitcoin bond, to set up … Bitcoin City!
The Bitcoin City plan is a recycled version of a previous plan to lease 10% of El Salvador to China.
Libra Shrugged — Chapter 15: Central bank digital currencies
An excerpt a year after the book’s publication — because I keep referring people to this chapter. Buy the book for more!
News: Compound threatens to dox its own users, El Salvador Chivo numbers, China hates crypto, Twitter tips, Tether class action proceeds
“Libertarian” is when I take your money, it’s different if you take mine.
News: the Senate has mild contempt for Bitcoin, Tether and USDC attestations, DeFi Money Market and Poloniex settle with SEC, Poly Network hack
Bitcoin is anti-fragile! Except against governments.
News: El Salvador Colón-Dollar, everybody hates BlockFi, Tether does CNBC
“One of the downsides of being both incompetent, unscrupulous and greedy is that you become very predictable.”