Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
Blockchain and cryptocurrency news and analysis by David Gerard
“please note how they’ve taken the actual melbourne course design and just … pasted it onto the sydney image. so half the track is underwater.”
Original art, do not steal.
Admittedly, NFTs are not as bad as that time the WWF ended up funding mercenaries to rape, torture and kill suspected poachers. Whoops!
Maybe Libra was just very stupid. Because it was a blockchain project started by bitcoiners. Maybe it was always just dumb as hell.
NFT promoters need to be forced to walk the streets ringing a bell, yelling “UNCLEAN,” and wearing a scarlet ฿.
David Marcus said in September that Novi would only abandon Diem as a “last resort.” Well, that didn’t take long.
The Diem Association is “effectively a zombie organization.” Ya think?
There’s no evidence that Facebook’s cleared Diem with regulators in the US, the EU and Switzerland — as they pinky-swore they would absolutely do before launch. But I’m sure they wouldn’t go back on their word.
A book excerpt! Cryptocurrency promoters never detail how they’re actually going to “bank the unbanked.” What would they need to do?