News: don’t pay ransomware, China, Japan, ICO plagiarism, fake exchange volume, cryptid-currency
Plus some good recent opinion pieces, and book news.
Tag: ethereum
News: NiceHash, credit cards cut off cryptos, Ethereum predictable “random” numbers, deanonymising Tor, Bail Bloc
With nice writeups of my book and related books.
Notes from the crash: watching the Bitcoin pumps and dumps live on GDAX
If you know what you’re looking at, the GDAX depth chart is absolutely gripping. It’s like an action thriller movie for very dull people. If you ever wondered why I don’t trade in cryptos …
UNICEF tries the “mine cryptos for charity” trick, makes repeated false claims along the way
UNICEF is trying the same terrible idea that Bail Bloc tried to pump Monero with. This time it’s for refugees in Syria, and they want you to mine Ethereum. Please just donate directly.
News: KodakCoin, Hydro-Québec, South Korea, Bitcoiners don’t take Bitcoin, Lightning Network, Ethereum woes
I spend too much time on Bitcoin Twitter. Yes, I know I did this to myself.
Why you can’t cash out pt 3: Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme! It just works like one
“A fish bowl with no food in it that fish keep jumping into because they heard it’s an all-you-can-eat buffet. And for the meanest fish, it is.” Why most Bitcoin on-paper “wealth” can never be realised.
News: 1bn Tethers, NiceHash return, India, buying Bitcoin, FCA, Lightning Network, book news
One billion Tethers! Each and every one backed by a redeemable US dollar, of course, as they state. 800 million of those being loaned out on Bitfinex for margin trading.
News: Tether from cryptos, $10,000, Tesla charging station mining, CME Bitcoin futures, Ethereum dinner, book news
Plus: the worst bootleg version I’ve ever seen of any book, and it was of mine.
News: Hong Kong, SEC and ICOs, Ethereum roadmap, the Bitcoin bank run, CryoGen recommend my article
The best bit is where CryoGen recommend the article where I detail why what they’re selling doesn’t work. I suppose I did call them sincere.
The World Food Programme’s much-publicised “blockchain” has one participant — i.e., it’s a database
A case study in applied business “blockchain.” The cost savings came entirely from the fact of pulling it all in-house.