News: Craig Wright copyright claims, Grayscale, Mt. Gox, Reddit on Ethereum, the French Bitcoin neo-Nazi
News from before the Fall.
Tag: ross ulbricht
News: KodakCoin is dead, XRP RIP, US on stablecoins, seasteading fails again
I get my crypto market insights by watching the remote-viewing guy draw pictures of his psychic impressions on YouTube.
News: Filecoin, CoinDesk, money-laundering busts, Libra barred until 2023, BitMEX and Roko’s Basilisk
Filecoin: Must die, bye bye, bye bye.
News: IOTA, Massive Adoption, Mastercard v. Libra, DRM in JPEG plans, Reggie Fowler plea deal fails, more Silk Road busts, ICO grace period, the Bitcoin market
Mastercard throws Libra under the bus so hard, it bounces twice.
News: IOTA blackmail, Coinbase banking and lawsuit, ezBtc vanishes, Ross Ulbricht appeal fails, Wright motion denied, Butterfly Labs, TimiHealth
“I mean at a certain point as a lawyer you have to have a one word conversation with your client — ‘no.'”
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: The crypto price crashes further, Tether, nodejs/NPM coin-stealing exploit, North Korea blockchain conference
bullish on USD. it is clear that USD is increasingly popular with past hodlers of the deprecated bit-Coin. USD has gone up hugely in just the past day against the b.t.C!! in conclusion you should be getting into currency
News: more coal-powered Bitcoin mining, Colorado vs. ICOs, Bitfinex withdrawal issues, the decline of “blockchain”
Bitfinex’s banking arrangements are fine — so long as you don’t try to get your money out.
News: Me at Intelligence Squared on Monday, darknet busts, Ross Ulbricht appeal rejected, Bitfinex/Tether, Expedia drops Bitcoin, GiveCrypto
No, there wasn’t a double-spend on Tether — just an exchange error. And the Lightning Network still doesn’t work. And don’t forget Intelligence Squared on Monday!
Eric Geissinger: Virtual Billions — looking at Bitcoin through a libertarian lens
A book given to historical rambling, but the Ross Ulbricht/Silk Road chapter is particularly good and insightful on what happens when you overextend an ideology to the point of monstrosity.