News: Facebook abandoning Libra/Diem, Soulja Boy vs. Atari, Kurson arrested again, El Salvador
The Diem Association is “effectively a zombie organization.” Ya think?
Tag: usdc
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.
News: El Salvador Colón-Dollar, everybody hates BlockFi, Tether does CNBC
“One of the downsides of being both incompetent, unscrupulous and greedy is that you become very predictable.”
Bitcoin myths: immutability, decentralisation, and the cult of “21 million”
Decentralisation was always a phantom. Every process in Bitcoin tends to centralisation. Plus: a history of Bitcoin Cash.
News: vanishing NFTs, Free Keene not so free, Coinbase wash-trading Litecoin
Pavel Durov is delighted to share that he can finally pay back the guys who put money into the Telegram ICO, and that he will continue to enjoy the use of his limbs.
Tether printer go brrrrr — cryptocurrency’s substitute dollar problem
I don’t know precisely what tiger iFinex and Tether are riding, but it clearly has teeth.
Facebook’s Libra is now Diem; STABLE Act says stablecoins must get banking licenses
The US has a fair chance of obliterating the US crypto trading stablecoin market in the quest to rein in Facebook’s bad idea.
News: Wirecard, Abramoff and AML BitCoin, Mr Craig Wright’s Ph.D. thesis disappears
“Techbrorati in Berlin idolized this guy. Don’t let them say otherwise.”