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The IMF’s central bank digital currency push is not about crypto — it’s about centralising banking

Control addiction, and the fallacy of big data.
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News: Crypto media pay-to-play, Bitmain IPO troubles, Sia centralises proof-of-work, Initiative Q stretches the truth

Nearly half the crypto media outlets refused payola! That’s good, right?
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News: Mt. Gox recovers, Bitcoin crashes, Bitfinex/Tether, Kaminska to Parliament, Hydro-Québec, TRON, EOS, Nano insecure keys

“I hate these extremely rare occurrences of crypto exchanges getting hacked once a week.”
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News: UK Treasury Digital Currencies Inquiry, Ethereum as a security, Bitcoin Cash, mining for charity

The first spoken evidence session from the Treasury’s Digital Currencies Inquiry is a blinder.
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News: Morocco, Bail Bloc, business Blockchain, horse manure

And a nice review of the book.
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News: Bitcoin Gold craters, CoinHive DNS hijack, crypto vs credit, regulatory sandboxing, Australia.

Interesting to see the “free money fork” model fail on literally the second attempt.
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China, Tethers, and what’s happened to the Bitcoin price in the past few days

How the price dropped to $3000 on the China trading ban, and was then (apparently) manipulated up to $3600 in four hours.
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News: What Estcoin is for, the bear case for crypto, mining security, Bitfinex audits, NiceHash drops AMD.

Short bits from the past few days.
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