News: Garza/GAW fine; Russia vs Bitcoin; ICOs in Australia; Tether non-audit; FaunaDB
And blockchain use in the Catalan independence referendum.
Tag: ico
News: ICOpocalypse! SEC, Switzerland, South Korea
And some bloke with a megaphone standing across the street from the Bloomberg office in London, ranting about Bitcoin.
News: Single source of most Ethereum transactions, exchange execs can’t leave China, Tim Swanson, Spoofy at GDAX
And you thought things were quiet right now.
News: BTC China to stop trading, Dubai ICO warning, me in Heise Technology Review
The bubble has to pop some time, and why not now.
News: SegWit2x vs Bitcoin Core, trade on blockchain, ICO governance, JPMorgan on Bitcoin, CollegeHumor on Bitcoin
Of course, the video’s the good bit.
ICO of the day: Synthetic rhino horn erection pills, on the Blockchain
To write an ICO white paper, you must: 1. State a problem. 2. Assert that ERC-20 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain will solve it. I don’t think there are any other steps.
The SEC told you it was watching — now it’s calling ICO promoters: Protostarr, BenjaCoin …
Protostarr is an aspiring entertainment industry company that was running an ICO. The ICO has been shut down after a call from the SEC. And they’re not the only ones to get a call.
Kik’s ICO for a centralised “cryptocurrency:” a desperation move at the venture capital drying up
Startup funding is always a tricky one. How about an ICO for struggling instant messaging startup Kik to get money from crypto gamblers without diluting their ownership? Offering a “general purpose cryptocurrency” to take cryptocurrency “mainstream,” that’s only slightly completely centralised.
Entertainment on the Blockchain with ICOs, over at Rocknerd
Today’s blockchain post is over at my music blog, Rocknerd — about Opus (streaming record distribution on the blockchain), Viberate (live music on the blockchain) and Kim Dotcom’s k.im (Dotcom being Dotcom on the blockchain). All of these have an ICO, of course, and two have convicted felons!
News: Storj doesn’t work, ICOs as lemon market, ICO regulation, ICO nutters
Storj doesn’t work and never will. And the hazards of journalism in an area where unbalanced people are dropping their life savings on digital Beanie Babies.