News: blockchain MEP Eva Kaili corruption arrest, Nigerian CBDC rewrite, BBC blockchain misadventures
RMS Titanic NFTs: You wouldn’t download a corpse.
Tag: diem
Crypto collapse: Gemini vs DCG, New York charges Mashinsky in Celsius, Voyager sale troubles, Silvergate troubles, Wintermute
We’re all trying to find the guy who did this, but in stereo.
News: Sanctioned Russians try to dump Bitcoin; no crypto ATMs in the UK; Bored Apes underwear fails; Associated Press NFT plan; football sponsorships; how Facebook’s Diem died
You can’t cash in billions of dollars of bitcoins instantly — but sanctioned Russians are trying.
News: World Wildlife NFT, Diem sale details, ECCB DCash offline
Admittedly, NFTs are not as bad as that time the WWF ended up funding mercenaries to rape, torture and kill suspected poachers. Whoops!
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.
Facebook’s Libra is still dead — Diem to be sold off for spare parts
Maybe Libra was just very stupid. Because it was a blockchain project started by bitcoiners. Maybe it was always just dumb as hell.
News: David Marcus quits Facebook, WhatsApp uses Novi, corporate NFT disasters
NFT promoters need to be forced to walk the streets ringing a bell, yelling “UNCLEAN,” and wearing a scarlet ฿.
Stablecoins: Tether, Libra, the President’s Working Group, the IMF
Phrases like “macro critical levels” are what central bankers say when they’re sounding the air-raid sirens.
Facebook’s Novi hooks up in Guatemala with Paxos, not Diem — just in time for the stablecoin report
David Marcus said in September that Novi would only abandon Diem as a “last resort.” Well, that didn’t take long.