Central bank digital currency — Bahamas Sand Dollar, Eastern Caribbean DCash
Who technically backs the e-money on your phone is much less interesting than what you can do with it.
Tag: hyperledger
News: Tether sued, ether is a commodity, proof of work is still awful, IRS releases incomprehensible guidance
If you’re going to do crimes, don’t do them on a permanent immutable public ledger of all transactions.
News: QuadrigaCX, Swift and Ripple, Mt. Gox, illegal abuse images on Bitcoin SV blockchain
If you made up the Quadriga saga as a story about lost pirate treasure, the target audience would have to be about four, because eight year olds wouldn’t buy it.
News: Augur election bet, Po.et cuts staff, BCTerminal sues The Block, Razer Silver cryptominer scam
Finally — Blockchain comes to the Apple II!
West Virginia’s Voatz blockchain voting pilot … is another single-user blockchain as a database
The West Virginia blockchain voting pilot just records the votes in a private blockchain, used as a database. Apparently, this is a big win for voting on the blockchain.
News: Bitfinex warrant canary disappears, Hyperledger loses members, Kik vs CryptoKitties
“Bitcoin is finance, distilled … There are no fundamentals, no cash flows or price-earnings ratios, to evaluate. It is pure speculation about speculation, a Keynesian beauty contest where all the pictures are blank.”
News: Oracle Blockchain, Cloudflare bans website miners, securing bitcoins, IBM Watson hype, Bitcoin paleo diet
“By 2050, bitcoin users will undiscover fire.”
European Central Bank and Bank of Japan: distributed ledger technology immature, “not a solution”
There have been hundreds of blockchain trials across many industries. When the trial is finished, there’s nary a peep. But this time, we have the report.