Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
Blockchain and cryptocurrency news and analysis by David Gerard
“The trick in the game is to make losers feel like they are winners, and one of the means of getting them into the trade is by paying them a yield to take on risks they don’t understand.”
Decentralisation was always a phantom. Every process in Bitcoin tends to centralisation. Plus: a history of Bitcoin Cash.
News from before the Fall.
And some light summer reading.
Canada has a sudden interest in regulating cryptocurrency.
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.
“I hate these extremely rare occurrences of crypto exchanges getting hacked once a week.”
IOTA’s fan base are remarkable. Also: crypto market manipulation, and good pieces on Mt. Gox and Sergei Mavrodi.
Is it illegal to download a copy of the Bitcoin blockchain? Possibly.