Tag:europe

Facebook and Libra’s terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week — everybody’s left, Dave

“In a way it’s liberating” — David Marcus on almost all the payment companies leaving Libra.
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News: Craig Wright loses big to Kleiman, tokens from SAFTs are securities, Patrick Byrne, IOTA again

BITCOIN IS IMMUNE TO GOVERNMENT CONFISCATION! Except if you’re in real life.
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News: Craig Wright hearing transcript, US Congress staff unimpressed with Facebook Libra, Reggie Fowler court date, Ledger Wallet bad firmware, Roubini/Hayes debate

“Well, let me get this straight. A company you didn’t buy until 2014 is listed as a beneficiary of a trust document you claimed was formed in 2012?”
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News: no crypto banking in India, SEC, Texas treats stablecoins as money transmission, cross-EU crypto rules, Bitmain CEOs step down, Tron is nonsense, Girlfriend on the Blockchain

Girlfriend on the blockchain, I know it’s serious.
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News: Shapeshift KYC, Kraken Halifax shutdown, EU ICO rules, UK Blockchain APPG, Mone’s failed ICO, KodakOne, Ethereum analytics, Bitcoin crash, Laurie Penny doing the Crypto Cruise, Walch/Schuster recordings

‘Tis just a seasonal dip!
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News: KodakCoin, FCA investigations, Ripple on TV, EU motion, Arizona blockchain veto

Plus my speaking dates in June and July.
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News: Venezuelan Petro, BitFunder arrest, Ethereum security holes, Long Blockchain, bad blockchain legislation, DAICOs

No, nobody can make sense of Venezuela’s Petro, because it doesn’t make sense. Plus more bad blockchain legislation, and SEC charges for fraudulent behaviour dating back to the Golden Age of Bitcoin.
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Leaked: A bad EU motion promoting blockchains coming up for vote — contact your MEPs

The EU Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) is voting on a motion that’s a compendium of every spurious hypothetical blockchain use case they could find — so it’s worth answering in full. Contact your MEPs as well.
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