News: Starbucks NFTs, Reddit karma points on the blockchain, Saylor fired, Telegram ICO slight return
“I couldn’t stand to market to such a deranged group of individuals and the toxic web3 workplace.”
Tag: ton
News: Blockchain handouts, Wirecard UK, WhatsApp Pay Brazil, 10 billion tethers
It’s right there in the white paper — cryptocurrency is about government handouts.
News: not Craig Wright’s bitcoins, how Tether flows, Goldman Sachs spurns Bitcoin, Calibra is now Novi
“Craig Steven Wright is a liar and a fraud. He doesn’t have the keys used to sign this message.”
Telegram gives up on the Telegram Open Network — and Free TON launches
The Durovs cry themselves to sleep on a not-as-big-as-hoped bed made of rather less money than they’d anticipated.
News: Telegram appeals injunction, Adaptive Capital fails, the story of the Petro
Call all you want, but there’s no one home. And you’re not gonna reach my telephone.
News: Hester Peirce and Bruce Springsteen, the $350,000 DeFi hack, FCoin exchange collapse, Voatz still bad, IOTA still broken, merchants still nonexistent
“It has been [0] days since the last inexplicably rare loss of customer funds from a Bitcoin exchange”
Telegram responds to the SEC complaint about the Grams ICO
The Howey test is so vague, and cryptos are so new! Who could know anything, really? See you in court.
News: Tether sued, ether is a commodity, proof of work is still awful, IRS releases incomprehensible guidance
If you’re going to do crimes, don’t do them on a permanent immutable public ledger of all transactions.
SEC blocks the Telegram ICO — what this means, and what happens now
Telegram’s whole scheme was to skin precisely the retail buyers who securities registration is meant to protect from being ripped off.
News: Kleiman and Wright settling, Libra, Tether, Initial Sucker Offerings, enterprise “blockchains” as back-end datastores, Marshall Islands, Telegram TON software
Crypto in general is a complicated machine to funnel decreasing supplies of actual-money from retail suckers to about twenty guys.