News: Blockchain handouts, Wirecard UK, WhatsApp Pay Brazil, 10 billion tethers
It’s right there in the white paper — cryptocurrency is about government handouts.
Tag: libra
Libra book cutting room floor: Libra as “stablecoin”; the early history of stablecoins
I wrote a short history of stablecoins for the prospective Libra book, but decided it was a bit of a digression. So I’ve posted it to the blog for your amusement instead.
News: Estonia not so keen on crypto, Peter Todd settles sexual assault defamation claim, how Compound works, bye bye Wirecard
My “not buying cryptos to launder money” shirt is raising a lot of questions answered by the shirt.
News: Quadriga report, Coinbase VCs want to dump their dead altcoins, India to re-ban cryptos, Civil is dead
And some light summer reading.
News: not Craig Wright’s bitcoins, how Tether flows, Goldman Sachs spurns Bitcoin, Calibra is now Novi
“Craig Steven Wright is a liar and a fraud. He doesn’t have the keys used to sign this message.”
News: DRM on JPEG images on the blockchain, BlockFi user data breached, TornadoCash mixer goes full DAO, the plant cuttings asset bubble
If you could put two flies crawling up a wall on the blockchain, I’m pretty sure crypto day traders would bet on fly futures.
News: 9 billion tethers, Reddit tokens, Kik is doomed, Singapore joins Libra, China’s CBDC — and J. K. Rowling asks about Bitcoin
And Investopedia are spammers, and you should remove any links to their site.
News: Purse.io shuts down, Chinese CBDC test, new Libra member Heifer, North Korea does not dump its bitcoins
Zack Voell from CoinDesk fights the good fight to destroy the crypto markets, and do Buttcoin — and North Korea — proud.
Facebook’s Libra: national currency tokens, a new white paper — what this means
Facebook is slowly being dragged, kicking and screaming, to running Libra like an ordinary, compliant payments processor — PayPal, but it’s Facebook — or Libra won’t be allowed to exist.
News: Cooking Mama and blockchain, the Halvening and Bitcoin Cash, Simple Assurance of Future Trouble, Kraken, Craig Wright: Craigness
Markets are completely screwed, nobody knows what anything is worth, and the hard problem is keeping everyone in basic food and shelter. Nobody cares about your novelty crypto collectibles.