{"id":2625,"date":"2017-11-24T20:56:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T20:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2017-11-24T20:56:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T20:56:05","slug":"news-morocco-bail-bloc-business-blockchain-horse-manure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/11\/24\/news-morocco-bail-bloc-business-blockchain-horse-manure\/","title":{"rendered":"News: Morocco, Bail Bloc, business Blockchain, horse manure"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Bank Al-Maghrib, Morocco&#8217;s financial regulator, states that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/sabc\/home\/channelafrica\/economy\/details?id=2f0bdf25-93d2-485d-9bcf-d1cc60de70a3&amp;title=Morocco%20regulator%20bans%20bitcoin%20payments\">&#8220;transactions via virtual currencies constitute a breach of regulations, punishable by penalties and fines&#8221;<\/a> and bans Bitcoin payments. This is actually <i>good<\/i> news, because &#8230;\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Nation on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/do-nothing-and-help-dismantle-our-broken-criminal-justice-system\/\">Bail Bloc<\/a>. They link <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/11\/15\/bail-bloc-mine-monero-generate-co2-send-less-money-than-you-spent-to-charity\/\">my post<\/a> on the subject.\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Cronycle: &#8220;Its fundamental genius: BailBloc runs on the principle that people (even its creators) <a href=\"https:\/\/cronycle.com\/2017\/bailbloc-a-lesson-in-cryptocurrencies-constraints\/\">don\u2019t really understand<\/a> how computers, or the internet, or cryptocurrencies really work.&#8221;\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Izabella Kaminska writes up an analyst note: it turns out that &#8220;blockchain&#8221; is more useful in business <a href=\"https:\/\/ftalphaville.ft.com\/2017\/11\/22\/2196054\/taking-the-block-out-of-blockchain\/\">the less it&#8217;s actually a blockchain<\/a>. The comments are a hoot too. FT Alphaville is free with login, and it&#8217;s worth it to argue with the ardent bitcoiners clearly in the wrong place.\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/11\/24\/news-morocco-bail-bloc-business-blockchain-horse-manure\/winston-o-boogie-ft-comment\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2628\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/winston-o-boogie-ft-comment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80%\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/winston-o-boogie-ft-comment.jpg 1422w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/winston-o-boogie-ft-comment-300x81.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/winston-o-boogie-ft-comment-768x207.jpg 768w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/winston-o-boogie-ft-comment-1024x277.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1422px) 100vw, 1422px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I thought &#8220;how about a horse poop ICO,&#8221; then realised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocoinsnews.com\/shit-into-bitcoin-gold\/\">there is no joke you can make about crypto that hasn&#8217;t multiple real world instances<\/a>. Their horse manure business didn&#8217;t take off until they added PayPal, sadly.\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Blog review of the book, by David Rosenthal: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dshr.org\/2017\/11\/techno-hype-part-2.html\">Techno-hype part 2<\/a>. &#8220;Enough about the hype around self-driving cars, now on to the hype around cryptocurrencies.&#8221;\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">how is this an entire genre <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oIOdEqr5Vp\">pic.twitter.com\/oIOdEqr5Vp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; irish-american spaghetti factory (@KrangTNelson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KrangTNelson\/status\/933519636230037506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 23, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/NunezChrise\/status\/933536813574057984<br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And a nice review of the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,239,74,271,29,6,269,270],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-attack-of-the-50-foot-blockchain","tag-bail-bloc","tag-blockchain","tag-cronycle","tag-izabella-kaminska","tag-links","tag-morocco","tag-the-nation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}