News: Numbers go down, MakerDAO, but mostly coronavirus
You can’t buy pies with bitcoins. Or respirators.
Tag: ransomware
News: Coronavirus kills conferences, India un-bans crypto, Bitcoin catches a cold
“FCA are like the SEC If they forgot to do their job, ever” — Ben Munster
News: Tether clogs Ethereum, Quadriga venue move, KodakOne sends copyright-trolling email, Telegram TON proceeding, no official Chinese stablecoin, Lightning in decline, don’t be your own bank
Ethereum is the World Computer! As long as you don’t try to use it for any sort of real application.
News: LocalBitcoins less local, Cryptopia, QuadrigaCX, crypto banking, Telegram, Wirecard, EOS Voice, Kik and Defund Crypto, Wright gets a copyright competitor
So much for the “business deals in parking lots” market.
News: Bitfinex/Tether v. New York, Cryptopia hack coins moving, HitBTC may be insolvent, Craig Wright copyright registration, SEC v. ICOs, money laundering is still illegal with Bitcoins
How much do you need to annoy a government agency that it starts a whole new press page just to refute your claims?
News: Blockchains still useless, SEC bags celebrities, more MP meetings
“Despite all the hype about how blockchain will bring unheralded transparency to processes and operations in low-trust environments, the industry is itself opaque.”
News: Tether pump fails, ETFs rejected, China blocks more exchanges, NotPetya ransomware, how FOMO3D was won, XYO goes Reg A+
The possibility of it being worth someone’s while to just DDOS you is almost never mentioned as a problem with smart contracts.
News: 14,000 CryptoKitties to kill Ethereum, history of Earn.com’s PiTato, ransomware, cryptographers on cryptocurrency
Also: I need titles for the sequel to Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain!
News: don’t pay ransomware, China, Japan, ICO plagiarism, fake exchange volume, cryptid-currency
Plus some good recent opinion pieces, and book news.
News: Securing plutonium, unsecuring Trezor, Twitter, NHS WannaCry, LSE review of the book
I’ve also sold a surprising and pleasing number of books.