The prehistory of NFTs
This is a draft of part one of the history chapter for our planned NFT book. Corrections and nitpicking are most welcomed!
Tag: mark karpeles
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: Bitcointopia busted, OneCoin busted, 1pool busted, Canada audits crypto traders
Canada has a sudden interest in regulating cryptocurrency.
News: QuadrigaCX, Swift and Ripple, Mt. Gox, illegal abuse images on Bitcoin SV blockchain
If you made up the Quadriga saga as a story about lost pirate treasure, the target audience would have to be about four, because eight year olds wouldn’t buy it.
News: IOTA cultists, Ethereum as security, exchange regulation and market manipulation, Wikipedia
IOTA’s fan base are remarkable. Also: crypto market manipulation, and good pieces on Mt. Gox and Sergei Mavrodi.
News: Kleiman v. Wright, Playboy TV, SEC vs crypto hedge funds, Coinbase gets UK banking, Bitfinex’ed hires Palley, Mt. Gox the Movie, Twitter bans
Featuring the trailer from Effortless French, a.k.a. Mt. Gox the Movie.
Mt. Gox crashes Bitcoin a second time, and there’s more to come
What crashed the price of Bitcoin in December, January and February? The Mt. Gox exchange’s bankruptcy trustee selling off the remaining coins to reimburse creditors, looks like.
Pay the Devil in Bitcoin: the story of the collapse of Mt. Gox
A short book on the collapse of Mt. Gox, based on the authors’ work over the past few years for the Daily Beast. The book badly needs an editor, but does have bits worth the read. Also, it’s cheap.
Kim Nilsson of WizSec: how the bitcoins were stolen from Mt. Gox
The thought “I know PHP! How hard could running an exchange be?” never goes anywhere good.