El Salvador’s Bitcoin Law takes effect on 7 September! Is everything in place and ready? Of course it isn’t. | Continue reading
Phew, what a scorcher! Why not sit back with a book or ten on the most fascinating subject in the world: financial shenanigans. | Continue reading
You might think it’s rank incompetence to release an official national payment system without an API … and you’d be correct. | Continue reading
Decentralisation was always a phantom. Every process in Bitcoin tends to centralisation. Plus: a history of Bitcoin Cash. | Continue reading
The El Salvador Bitcoin scheme is a barely-planned smash-and-grab. | Continue reading
“WE SCAMMED YOU GUYS AND YOU CANT DO S—T ABOUT IT HA HA. All you moon bois have been scammed and you cant do s—t about it.” | Continue reading
Asset bubbles are fragile, but we still have Tether. | Continue reading
The Diem USD stablecoin will be issued by Silvergate Bank — the national bank of crypto. | Continue reading
Does nine lines of text on two pie charts satisfy Tether’s agreement with the New York Attorney General to publish a breakdown of its reserves? | Continue reading
“The following episode of The 9pm Edict contains strong language, financial crimes, and some sad truths about humanity.” | Continue reading
This podcast is not about Bitcoin — it’s about Nazis. But neo-Nazis like Bitcoin, ‘cos they keep getting kicked off the actual-money payment processors. | Continue reading
Tether releases an audit of their reserves! Done by proper accountants! Well, actually an attestation. Well, functionally a press release. | Continue reading
The BofA report is imperfect, but it’s worth a look over. | Continue reading
Dr. Tingle has spoken — and in a good and proper world, that should just about wrap it up for NFTs. | Continue reading
Banksying the unbanksied. | Continue reading
I don’t know precisely what tiger iFinex and Tether are riding, but it clearly has teeth. | Continue reading
“Gold and silver flew about the country with the celerity of magic; its sound was heard in the depths of the forest, yet like the wind, one knew not whence it came or whither it was going.… | Continue reading
Crypto: “Take us seriously!” FinCEN, Treasury: “Sure!” Crypto: “No, not like that,” | Continue reading
Perhaps they could change the ticker from XRP to RIP. | Continue reading
John McAfee did promise to eat his own dick if BTC didn’t hit $500,000 by the end of 2020. So maybe this is a last ditch McAfee penis pump. | Continue reading
Christoph Bergmann of BitcoinBlog.de interviewed me about Facebook’s Libra (now Diem), about Libra Shrugged and about Bitcoin. | Continue reading
The US has a fair chance of obliterating the US crypto trading stablecoin market in the quest to rein in Facebook’s bad idea. | Continue reading
Paypal-but-it’s-Facebook, with US dollars. | Continue reading
Coinbase told the CFTC that their internal systems use a ledger in an ordinary database … because the Bitcoin blockchain couldn’t possibly scale to their transaction load. | Continue reading
A talk to Sam Bowne’s class CNIT 141: Cryptography for Computer Networks, at City College of San Francisco. | Continue reading
I still refuse to use my shift key in chat. | Continue reading
What I actually did to make the ePub for Libra Shrugged. There’s almost certainly bits I could have done better some other way. | Continue reading
Filecoin: Must die, bye bye, bye bye. | Continue reading
Kindle and paperback: Amazon US — Amazon UK — and other Amazon stores worldwide Preorder on Apple, Kobo, Smashwords and other ebook stores PDF from Google Books DRM-free Audiobook: coming soon Sili… | Continue reading
Another CBDC trial that I didn’t cover already. This will be in Libra Shrugged. | Continue reading
Who technically backs the e-money on your phone is much less interesting than what you can do with it. | Continue reading
If Facebook’s Libra project ever has a real-world result, it’ll be China’s DC/EP. | Continue reading
Everybody is excited by the novelty of it all and think that with so many different games they can surely find one where they can win. | Continue reading
A venture capitalist on how to save journalism — or save venture capitalists from journalism, in any case. | Continue reading
As soon as a blockchain scheme gets in front of adults — it’s dead. | Continue reading
With the real names policy, Voice might repeat the stratospheric success of Google Plus! | Continue reading
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. | Continue reading
Do you want to rock the boat, or become the boat? Or, at least, the rudder? | Continue reading
Of course Wirecard were into crypto. Just a little, you understand. | Continue reading
“20. Bancor reimplemented math.” | Continue reading
Ginned-up non-news keeps the content engines churning. Quick! More copy! There’s ads to fail to sell! | Continue reading
How does this keep happening? It is a mystery. | Continue reading
If you could put two flies crawling up a wall on the blockchain, I’m pretty sure crypto day traders would bet on fly futures. | Continue reading
This is bad enough that Telegram Messenger itself might be affected. | Continue reading
The problem with DeFi is not the technology, though that’s bad too — it’s that people are greedy and foolish. | Continue reading
Facebook is slowly being dragged, kicking and screaming, to running Libra like an ordinary, compliant payments processor — PayPal, but it’s Facebook. | Continue reading
I strongly suspect that about wraps it up for the Telegram ICO. | Continue reading
Last chance to buy under $100k! | Continue reading