The prehistory of NFTs
This is a draft of part one of the history chapter for our planned NFT book. Corrections and nitpicking are most welcomed!
Tag: smart contract
Blockchain bridges: how the smart contract piñata works, and why bridges keep getting hacked
Oversight needs to be put into place for these supposedly billion-dollar financial institutions — before they get within a mile of the real financial system where people live.
News: the Senate has mild contempt for Bitcoin, Tether and USDC attestations, DeFi Money Market and Poloniex settle with SEC, Poly Network hack
Bitcoin is anti-fragile! Except against governments.
Bancor releases smart contract security hole, hacks self, only loses a few hundred thousand dollars of user funds
“20. Bancor reimplemented math.”
The dForce and Hegic DeFi exploits, and why Smart Contracts are bad
The problem with DeFi is not the technology, though that’s bad too — it’s that people are greedy and foolish.
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: Civil ripped off its journalists, Bitfinex untethers Tether, working at Trezor, Amazon Managed Blockchain
Any company that tries to pay your wages in company scrip — rather than actual money — should be treated as fraudulent trash.
The Australian National Blockchain: centralised IBM “smart contracts” for lawyers — with no code yet, only concept
“A giant shared but segmented database, with the word ‘blockchain’ stuck on it.” All on the IBM Cloud.
News: SEC vs crypto hedge fund, Garza sentenced, post-bubble office vacancies, EOS hack, ICOs sell off 238k ETH, David Chaum
And first reports back from the Coinsbank Crypto Cruise.