News: Bitcoin goes up, Reggie Fowler’s lawyers quit, Pokémon, ancaps buy a plague ship
And Decrypt is running an excerpt from Libra Shrugged.
Tag: quadrigacx
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: 9 billion tethers, Reddit tokens, Kik is doomed, Singapore joins Libra, China’s CBDC — and J. K. Rowling asks about Bitcoin
And Investopedia are spammers, and you should remove any links to their site.
News: Telegram appeals injunction, Adaptive Capital fails, the story of the Petro
Call all you want, but there’s no one home. And you’re not gonna reach my telephone.
Filming in Vancouver about Quadriga
Amy Castor and I came to Vancouver for the weekend, to be interviewed by Sheona McDonald for a CBC documentary on the collapse of the Quadriga crypto exchange.
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: 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.
The revenge of Canada — crypto exchanges are put under securities regulation
After Quadriga, Canadian regulators feel they need a much bigger stick to deal with crypto.
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.
News: IDAX and Upbit hacks, Binance threatens The Block, Tether sued again, Libra Association, Craig Wright attorney fees, EOS centralises,
Come see me on the Intelligence Squared panel in London on Thursday afternoon — free!