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News: DeFi in full mania, Australian Senate fintech report, Bank of England on Libra, Care Bears on the blockchain

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Sep 03,2020
Comments: 1
Tags: alphabay , andrew bailey , andrew bragg , asic , australia , bank of england , beanie babies , binance , bitcoin , bitconnect , bithumb , blockchain , british blockchain association , bryan herrell , bxa , care bears , cbdc , china , christian harrington , coinmarketcap , crypto rating council , defi , eos , ethereum , ethereum classic , facebook , gabriel shapiro , hotdog , ico , inner mongolia , jp koning , libra , links , louis biggaton , mark zuckerberg , mining , opium , power ledger , rba , robert werner , robinhood , sandbox blockchain game , sec , stablecoin , stevan bunnel , switzerland , tether , tezos , united kingdom , whatsapp , zug

HOW TO DESTROY ETHEREUM: use it for something. This cripples it every time.
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A history of Libra’s predecessor, Messenger Pay — the first version of Facebook Pay

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Aug 26,2020
Comments: 0
Tags: david marcus , facebook , facebook financial , facebook pay , messenger payments

You may be on Facebook lots — but would you trust Facebook with your money? For most people, the answer was “no.”
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News: Doctor Who and the Curse of the Fatal Blockchain, the YAM DeFi disaster, BitMEX goes KYC

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Aug 14,2020
Comments: 1
Tags: /r/buttcoin , adamant capital , archive.is , arthur hayes , bbc , bennett tomlin , binance , bitcointalk , bitmex , blockchain , blockchain association , boon , brave , cas piancey , cbdc , chubbyemu , coinbase , david marcus , defi , doctor who , ethereum , ethereum classic , facebook , facebook financial , facebook pay , fednow , gnu taler , goldman sachs , hester peirce , ico , innovecs , john kavanagh , jpmorgan chase , kyle s. gibson , links , michael saylor , microstrategy , nixops , novi , onecoin , parsec frontiers , phoenix thoroughbreds , rajesh pavithran , reality gaming group , richard stallman , ripple , sec , tor , tuur demeester , whatsapp pay , worlds apart , xrp , yam

Code is still LOL.
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Facebook’s Libra was dead as of July 2019

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Jul 20,2020
Comments: 7
Tags: david marcus , facebook , libra , united states

As soon as a blockchain scheme gets in front of the adults — it’s dead.
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News: not Craig Wright’s bitcoins, how Tether flows, Goldman Sachs spurns Bitcoin, Calibra is now Novi

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On May 31,2020
Comments: 0
Tags: bitclave , bitcoin , bitfinex , calibra , cas piancey , craig wright , cryptokitties , dapper labs , dave kleiman , david marcus , distributed denial of secrets , facebook , flipside crypto , free ton , goldman sachs , gram , handshake , ico , ira kleiman , libra , links , mark zuckerberg , meta 1 , namebase , nba , newton , novi , paxful , sec , somethingawful , telegram , tether , ton , ton chinese community

“Craig Steven Wright is a liar and a fraud. He doesn’t have the keys used to sign this message.”
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News: 9 billion tethers, Reddit tokens, Kik is doomed, Singapore joins Libra, China’s CBDC — and J. K. Rowling asks about Bitcoin

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On May 15,2020
Comments: 5
Tags: alliance for prosperity , bitfinex , calvin ayre , cbdc , celo , charles sturt university , checkout.com , china , coinbase , cra , craig wright , cryptopia film , david silver , de nederlandsche bank , ecb , eos , ethereum , europe , ey , facebook , finance magnates , frederick pye , gemini , giancarlo devasini , harm van den dorpel , ico , investopedia , jacob kostecki , jk rowling , jpmorgan chase , kik , kin , left gallery , li lihui , libra , links , martin walker , massive adoption , netherlands , paradigm , paul tudor jones , podcast , preston byrne , qbtc.u , quadrigacx , reddit , ripple , saft , sec , singapore , slow ventures , stuart hoegner , stuart levey , switzerland , temasek , tezos , the bitcoin fund , xrp , yves mersch

And Investopedia are spammers, and you should remove any links to their site.
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Facebook’s Libra: national currency tokens, a new white paper — what this means

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Apr 16,2020
Comments: 0
Tags: facebook , libra

Facebook is slowly being dragged, kicking and screaming, to running Libra like an ordinary, compliant payments processor — PayPal, but it’s Facebook — or Libra won’t be allowed to exist.
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Facebook’s Libra national currency plan isn’t new — it was always the fallback plan B

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Mar 04,2020
Comments: 0
Tags: ben maurer , david marcus , facebook , libra , mark zuckerberg

Revamps are in the air, because Libra still can’t get its bad idea past the regulators — the same ones who said “LOL, what on earth, absolutely not” within hours of Libra’s initial announcement last June.
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News: 2020 predictions, ICO fallout, Craig Wright, Qatar and Uzbekistan block cryptos, Bitcoin and censorship, Libra

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Jan 11,2020
Comments: 1
Tags: amy castor , ben munster , bitfinex , blockstream , bundesbank , calibra , cbd , charlie shrem , china , craig wright , crypto asset management lp , david marcus , digital capital management , dubai , eric nakagawa , facebook , facebook pay , faegre baker , germany , grant gulovsen , gym friend , hashgraph , ico , icobox , ira kleiman , jake chervinsky , jens weidmann , john reed stark , joshua davis , kraken , kyri andreou , libra , links , patrick ellis , payu , qatar , samson mow , sebastian meunier , sec , shitcoin wallet , switzerland , tether , timothy enneking , ueli maurer , uzbekistan , virgil griffith , youtube

The Bitcoin white paper’s elegant simplicity only exists in a perfectly spherical monetary system in a vacuum at absolute zero.
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News: Libra and stablecoins and FinCEN, China still hates crypto trading, Tether

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Nov 22,2019
Comments: 0
Tags: all t&a consulting pty ltd , australia , axa , benoit coeure , bis , bitfinex , blockchain , china , europe , facebook , federal reserve , fednow , fincen , fizzy , iaqua , ico , intelligence squared , irs , kenneth a. blanco , lance gooden , libra , links , monero , paul vigna , royal bank of canada , silvergate bank , stablecoin , sylvia garcia , tether , the block , united states , valery kovalevskiy , voatz , world chess

And I’m doing another Intelligence Squared on Thursday 5 December — and this one’s free!
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