Oh, eMusic, no — don’t go blockchain! Another Kodak moment
Today’s blockchain post is over on Rocknerd — it’s early dot-com era downloaded music company eMusic taking the final resort of an utterly buggered company.
Tag: ico
News: Me at Intelligence Squared, MailChimp bans crypto, ICOs suing over ad bans, Reddit drops Bitcoin, Bitfinex avoids Petro, Sichuan demolishes hydro, bad blockchain laws, Wall Street not so blockchain
Crypto Fools’ Day is, of course, January 9. In cryptocurrency, every day is January 9.
Synthestech offers “cold transmutation” alchemy on the blockchain. Plus UFOs.
Did you know that bacteria can transmute copper, iron and tungsten into platinum and iridium? I certainly didn’t. In fact, I still don’t.
News: Krebs on CoinHive, Ledger hardware hack, regulators vs ICOs, Sierra Leone, RIP Mavrodi, JPMorgan, RokoCoin
And nothing about Twitter blocking crypto ads, because I posted about that last week.
Woolf University: college courses literally on the Ethereum blockchain
Courses will be purchased, and staff paid, in WOOLF tokens. And rather than a costly university administration — boo! hiss! — they’ll have … smart contracts!
News: don’t pay ransomware, China, Japan, ICO plagiarism, fake exchange volume, cryptid-currency
Plus some good recent opinion pieces, and book news.
Kodak pt 5: KodakCoin ICO Light Paper finally released!
WENN Digital have finally released their long-awaited KodakCoin ICO Light Paper! I go through this SAFT in detail. Summary: lol.
News: Kraken loses Japanese banking, Marshall Islands issues crypto, Québec vs miners, UK Labour vs cryptos, failed ICOs, Bitcoin usage declines, BTC Global
“The traditional banking partners that Kraken needs to work with are not able to keep up with the demands of the growing Bitcoin economy” — not Roger Ver, but what Kraken actually just claimed.
ICO tokens won’t fix journalism either, and certainly not with company scrip
Journalism is desperate for a way to survive economically. But ICO tokens predicated on automating away the human element probably aren’t it.
News: me at Financial Times, SEC vs ICOs, Russia vs ICOs, ICO buyers vs ICOs, crypto scammers on Twitter, IOTA replay attacks, Stolfi vs NIST
If you’re in London, come and see me discuss the future of Bitcoin and blockchains at the Financial Times on Tuesday!