News: the collapse of Cred, Binance’s cunning plan, new US regulators, Bitcoin miners run out of cash
I ask one thing of you — please review Libra Shrugged!
Tag: tether
News: Bitcoin goes up, Reggie Fowler’s lawyers quit, Pokémon, ancaps buy a plague ship
And Decrypt is running an excerpt from Libra Shrugged.
News: Filecoin, CoinDesk, money-laundering busts, Libra barred until 2023, BitMEX and Roko’s Basilisk
Filecoin: Must die, bye bye, bye bye.
News: McAfee and BitMEX busted, don’t pay your ransomware, Morgan Beller leaves Libra, SEC beats Kik
Crypto asked for regulatory clarity, and they’re getting it! Good and hard.
News: stupid DeFi tricks, Tether doesn’t have the documents for NYAG, Craig Wright loses again
“I’m going to put a lot of money into three card monte. Everyone I watch who plays it wins: it’s a sure bet.”
News: DeFi in full mania, Australian Senate fintech report, Bank of England on Libra, Care Bears on the blockchain
HOW TO DESTROY ETHEREUM: use it for something. This cripples it every time.
News: Bitcoin’s enterprise use case, the Voice experience, Reggie Fowler, Quorum to Consensys, DeFi cease-and-desist
POLICE TO BLACKMAILER: Let’s meet in person, so we can hand you the untraceable cryptocurrency in full view of a surveillance camera.
News: Blockchain handouts, Wirecard UK, WhatsApp Pay Brazil, 10 billion tethers
It’s right there in the white paper — cryptocurrency is about government handouts.
Libra book cutting room floor: Libra as “stablecoin”; the early history of stablecoins
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.