News: Filecoin, CoinDesk, money-laundering busts, Libra barred until 2023, BitMEX and Roko’s Basilisk
Filecoin: Must die, bye bye, bye bye.
Tag: libra
News: McAfee and BitMEX busted, don’t pay your ransomware, Morgan Beller leaves Libra, SEC beats Kik
Crypto asked for regulatory clarity, and they’re getting it! Good and hard.
Libra Shrugged is up for preorders on Kindle and other e-book stores!
The preorder price is £4.99 or $6.99. When it goes live, that’ll go up to £5.99 or $7.99. So get in early.
Libra Shrugged — a first try at the Amazon blurb
I’ve been working on the blurb for the book. Ideas welcomed. Yes, it’s now called “Libra Shrugged.”
News: stupid DeFi tricks, Tether doesn’t have the documents for NYAG, Craig Wright loses again
“I’m going to put a lot of money into three card monte. Everyone I watch who plays it wins: it’s a sure bet.”
Libra book draft finished!
Already getting great feedback — mostly where I haven’t explained what the heck I’m talking about, or have accidentally traveled in time. These things happen.
News: DeFi in full mania, Australian Senate fintech report, Bank of England on Libra, Care Bears on the blockchain
HOW TO DESTROY ETHEREUM: use it for something. This cripples it every time.
News: Bitcoin’s enterprise use case, the Voice experience, Reggie Fowler, Quorum to Consensys, DeFi cease-and-desist
POLICE TO BLACKMAILER: Let’s meet in person, so we can hand you the untraceable cryptocurrency in full view of a surveillance camera.
Libra book cutting room floor: Previous basket-based currencies
The Libra book probably won’t have to include a short history of currency baskets before I can talk about why the original plan for the Libra reserve was ridiculously terrible. So I’ve posted it here.
Facebook’s Libra was dead as of July 2019
As soon as a blockchain scheme gets in front of the adults — it’s dead.