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FT Alphaville Unofficial Tech Chat — David Gerard answers your crypto market questions

- by David Gerard - 1 Comment

Digital gold, Bitcoin mining, CBDCs, DC/EP, Libra and Facebook, corporate crypto purchases, Avalanche and mathcoins, Tether and what happens when the music stops. And Craig Wright.

PayPal brings crypto gambling to US retail. Bad for customers, bad for PayPal

- by David Gerard - 7 Comments.

Certainly, sir! We accept PayPal, who are totally into your, uh, bot-coins. Yes, PayPal. Use them there. PayPal’s on our website, you definitely don’t need to come here in person ever again.

News: Bitcoin ad regulation in the UK, Coinsquare settles with OSC, institutional investors fail to show up, nobody uses Bitcoin

- by David Gerard - 2 Comments.

Be less Brenda.

News: Wirecard, Abramoff and AML BitCoin, Mr Craig Wright’s Ph.D. thesis disappears

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“Techbrorati in Berlin idolized this guy. Don’t let them say otherwise.”

Libra before Libra — the rise and fall of Facebook Credits

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Libra wasn’t Facebook’s first foray into payment systems. A decade ago, it set up Facebook Credits — to cash in on pay-to-win games.

News: EOS settles with SEC, PayPal dumps Libra, digitised gold, Coinbase triples fees, Bitcoin Foundation is dead

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PayPal “remains supportive of Libra’s mission” — so that’s nice.

Don’t PayPal me — they cut me off!

- by David Gerard - 5 Comments.

Don’t try to PayPal anything to dgerard@gmail.com – it’ll bounce!