News: Numbers go down, MakerDAO, but mostly coronavirus
You can’t buy pies with bitcoins. Or respirators.
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News: Coronavirus kills conferences, India un-bans crypto, Bitcoin catches a cold
“FCA are like the SEC If they forgot to do their job, ever” — Ben Munster
News: London Football Exchange and Perth Glory, Ripple pays MoneyGram to be its friend, Libra not dead, IOTA still halted, Sweden’s not-a-CBDC
“I think sophisticated market investors can judge for themselves if 2+2 makes 5, or even 6. As Bruce Springsteen sang, ‘it’s just like Sister Ray said.’”
News: Hester Peirce and Bruce Springsteen, the $350,000 DeFi hack, FCoin exchange collapse, Voatz still bad, IOTA still broken, merchants still nonexistent
“It has been [0] days since the last inexplicably rare loss of customer funds from a Bitcoin exchange”
News: IOTA, Massive Adoption, Mastercard v. Libra, DRM in JPEG plans, Reggie Fowler plea deal fails, more Silk Road busts, ICO grace period, the Bitcoin market
Mastercard throws Libra under the bus so hard, it bounces twice.
News: Jacob Kostecki and Massive Adoption, Quadriga, Vodafone hangs up on Libra
When you’re a serial foulup — with other people’s money, not just your own — running a conference is ill-advised.
News: 2020 predictions, ICO fallout, Craig Wright, Qatar and Uzbekistan block cryptos, Bitcoin and censorship, Libra
The Bitcoin white paper’s elegant simplicity only exists in a perfectly spherical monetary system in a vacuum at absolute zero.
News: Kraken trouble in Wyoming, Reggie Fowler plea deal, Australia clamps down on crypto exchanges
And so this is Christmas — and it turns out that banking commissioners take allegations of sanctions violations seriously.
News: Eran Eyal and Shopin charged again, some Cryptopia money found, Richard Heart and Hex, exhuming Gerald Cotten
Crypto is not a Ponzi scheme! It’s just a great platform to build other Ponzis on.