News: Bitcoin goes up, Reggie Fowler’s lawyers quit, Pokémon, ancaps buy a plague ship
And Decrypt is running an excerpt from Libra Shrugged.
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
Blockchain and cryptocurrency news and analysis by David Gerard
And Decrypt is running an excerpt from Libra Shrugged.
Filecoin: Must die, bye bye, bye bye.
Crypto asked for regulatory clarity, and they’re getting it! Good and hard.
“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.”
HOW TO DESTROY ETHEREUM: use it for something. This cripples it every time.
POLICE TO BLACKMAILER: Let’s meet in person, so we can hand you the untraceable cryptocurrency in full view of a surveillance camera.
It’s right there in the white paper — cryptocurrency is about government handouts.
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.
And some light summer reading.