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Libra book cutting room floor: Libra as “stablecoin”; the early history of stablecoins

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Jul 05,2020
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Tags: bitusd , libra , stablecoin , tether

I wrote a short history of stablecoins for the prospective Libra book, but decided it was a bit of a digression. So I’ve posted it to the blog for your amusement instead.
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News: Cooking Mama and blockchain, the Halvening and Bitcoin Cash, Simple Assurance of Future Trouble, Kraken, Craig Wright: Craigness

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Apr 14,2020
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Tags: 1st playable , adam back , andreesen horowitz , beth bloom , binance , bitcoin , bitcoin cash , blockchain , cas piancey , coinmarketcap , cooking mama , cooking mama: cookstar , craig wright , cryptolab , dave kleiman , douglas saltsman , factom , fsb , glassdoor , gram , ico , ira kleiman , kevin castel , kraken , kyle s. gibson , libra , links , makerdao , marco santori , nintendo , office create , peter smith , planet entertainment , roche freedman llp , saft , saltmine , sec , stablecoin , telegram , unikoin , unikrn , visa

Markets are completely screwed, nobody knows what anything is worth, and the hard problem is keeping everyone in basic food and shelter. Nobody cares about your novelty crypto collectibles.
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News: Kraken trouble in Wyoming, Reggie Fowler plea deal, Australia clamps down on crypto exchanges

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Dec 22,2019
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Tags: albert forkner , auscoin atm , austrac , australia , bcot , binance , bitfinex , chopcoin , craig wright , crypto capital , cryptocurrency transaction machines , cryptoradar , europe , federal reserve , howzat domains , huobi , ico , ira kleiman , kraken , lael brainard , libra , links , malta , mk buy & sell , plustoken , reggie fowler , sec , simplecoin , slovenia , stablecoin , wyoming

And so this is Christmas — and it turns out that banking commissioners take allegations of sanctions violations seriously.
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News: Libra and stablecoins and FinCEN, China still hates crypto trading, Tether

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Nov 22,2019
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Tags: all t&a consulting pty ltd , australia , axa , benoit coeure , bis , bitfinex , blockchain , china , europe , facebook , federal reserve , fednow , fincen , fizzy , iaqua , ico , intelligence squared , irs , kenneth a. blanco , lance gooden , libra , links , monero , paul vigna , royal bank of canada , silvergate bank , stablecoin , sylvia garcia , tether , the block , united states , valery kovalevskiy , voatz , world chess

And I’m doing another Intelligence Squared on Thursday 5 December — and this one’s free!
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News: Kleiman and Wright settling, Libra, Tether, Initial Sucker Offerings, enterprise “blockchains” as back-end datastores, Marshall Islands, Telegram TON software

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Sep 18,2019
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Tags: australian national blockchain , bertrand perez , bitcoin , blockchain , china , craig wright , crypto capital , dan larimer , ecb , eos , ethereum , facebook , finma , global trading solutions , ico , ieo , ira kleiman , iran , judge business school , libra , links , luke-jr , marshall islands , michael hlady , michael peters , north korea , okex , reggie fowler , south korea , spacechain , spc , stablecoin , steven nerayoff , switzerland , telegram , tether , tim swanson , ton , uld , uledger , vaneck

Crypto in general is a complicated machine to funnel decreasing supplies of actual-money from retail suckers to about twenty guys.
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Switzerland’s guidance on stablecoins — what it means for Facebook’s Libra

by: David Gerard
In: Uncategorised
On Sep 11,2019
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Tags: facebook , libra , stablecoin , switzerland

FINMA published their guidance on stablecoins today — answering a request from Libra, but covering the stablecoin area more broadly.
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