News: DeFi in full mania, Australian Senate fintech report, Bank of England on Libra, Care Bears on the blockchain
HOW TO DESTROY ETHEREUM: use it for something. This cripples it every time.
Tag: facebook
A history of Libra’s predecessor, Messenger Pay — the first version of Facebook Pay
You may be on Facebook lots — but would you trust Facebook with your money? For most people, the answer was “no.”
Facebook’s Libra was dead as of July 2019
As soon as a blockchain scheme gets in front of the adults — it’s dead.
News: not Craig Wright’s bitcoins, how Tether flows, Goldman Sachs spurns Bitcoin, Calibra is now Novi
“Craig Steven Wright is a liar and a fraud. He doesn’t have the keys used to sign this message.”
News: 9 billion tethers, Reddit tokens, Kik is doomed, Singapore joins Libra, China’s CBDC — and J. K. Rowling asks about Bitcoin
And Investopedia are spammers, and you should remove any links to their site.
Facebook’s Libra: national currency tokens, a new white paper — what this means
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.
Facebook’s Libra national currency plan isn’t new — it was always the fallback plan B
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.
News: 2020 predictions, ICO fallout, Craig Wright, Qatar and Uzbekistan block cryptos, Bitcoin and censorship, Libra
The Bitcoin white paper’s elegant simplicity only exists in a perfectly spherical monetary system in a vacuum at absolute zero.
News: Libra and stablecoins and FinCEN, China still hates crypto trading, Tether
And I’m doing another Intelligence Squared on Thursday 5 December — and this one’s free!