First legally-mandated blockchain: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)’s spam call complaint database
Requiring a particular deep implementation is bad — and especially because of unrealisable hype.
Tag: ibm
News: CBOE Ether futures, the invisible Petro, Civil and Associated Press, BitFi hacked worse
Plus good papers, opinion pieces and followups. And why surveys claiming amazing mainstream crypto uptake!! are made-up rubbish. Also, go hear Edmund Schuster and Angela Walch on Tuesday afternoon.
News: Bitmain IPO, Bitcoin and Tether, Terpin v. AT&T, NVidia hates crypto, Vietman blocks mining rigs, Playboy v. GBT, Ethereum Ponzis, Bitcoin bail, Maersk v. shipping industry
Bitcoin explained: “imagine if keeping your car idling 24/7 produced solved Sudokus you could trade for heroin.”
News: Exitscam.me, UK Treasury, IBM’s dollar-substitute token, Stripe, KodakCoin
And there’s a Wikipedia article on the Kodak KashMiner.
IBM, the GDPR and “blockchain” — whatever that word specifically means
The problem with special rules for “blockchains” is that there’s no definition of “blockchain” other than “whatever I’m trying to sell you right now.”
News: IBM Blockchain, Sergei Mavrodi, carders hate Bitcoin, blockchain use cases, market manipulations
A bit of news, a few good opinion pieces, some nice book photos and the Christmas tweet selection. Also, you should sign up for the Patreon.