Bitcoin myths: immutability, decentralisation, and the cult of “21 million”
Decentralisation was always a phantom. Every process in Bitcoin tends to centralisation. Plus: a history of Bitcoin Cash.
Tag: mt gox
News: Craig Wright copyright claims, Grayscale, Mt. Gox, Reddit on Ethereum, the French Bitcoin neo-Nazi
News from before the Fall.
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: 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.”
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: Petro and Russia, illegal porn on the blockchain, Tether, Mt. Gox, Twitter bans crypto ads, NSA scans Bitcoin, Kodak earnings call, Sierra Leone election not on the blockchain
Is it illegal to download a copy of the Bitcoin blockchain? Possibly.
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.