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Facebook’s Libra: blockchain, but without the blocks or chain

  1. What exactly is Facebook's Libra Reserve?
  2. Alphaville's Libra cheat sheet
  3. Zuckerberg: The man who would be monetary king

Y NO BLOCKCHAIN? (But also: Y BLOCKCHAIN?)

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading

The bitcoin scam; Calpers' dilemma; what really happened to the missing Malaysian plane; too much of a big thing; and more.

By: Jemima Kelly

The Rick Santorum-backed coin for Catholics

“Cathio, the Catholic blockchain.”

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading

Shame vs the free market; the disappearance of rural radio; fake journalists; Rihannomics; and more.

By: Jemima Kelly

A $100m ICO being sued by the SEC wants more of your money

  1. A crypto Buffett lunch is on the cards. Poor Warren Buffett.
  2. LGC-Coin fights back against the Financial Times
  3. Introducing the “exit coin” for the luxury sector
  4. A failed ICO is trying to flog itself on eBay
  5. Crypto-shills
  6. Parliament gets it, crypto-currency bunkum edition
  7. The ICO whose team members are literally cartoon characters
  8. The London School of Cryptonomics
  9. Intel's disruption, and the problem with every token pitch
  10. Buy SEC tokens! Now!
  11. Crypto “hedge fund” update
  12. The CryptoMillionsLotto
  13. We ran away with your bitcoins!! LOL, JK
  14. About that Petro
  15. Michelle Mone brings a touch of the avant-garde to finance
  16. Conservative peer stakes her name on a crypto offering, just as the market crashes
  17. Crypto market put on notice — yet again
  18. ICO regulator anger translator
  19. Kodak makes last desperate bid for relevance with cryptocurrency
  20. Crypto cards just suffered a major setback

FightTheSECCoin, anyone?

By: Jemima Kelly

A crypto Buffett lunch is on the cards. Poor Warren Buffett.

  1. A $100m ICO being sued by the SEC wants more of your money
  2. LGC-Coin fights back against the Financial Times
  3. Introducing the “exit coin” for the luxury sector
  4. A failed ICO is trying to flog itself on eBay
  5. Crypto-shills
  6. Parliament gets it, crypto-currency bunkum edition
  7. The ICO whose team members are literally cartoon characters
  8. The London School of Cryptonomics
  9. Intel's disruption, and the problem with every token pitch
  10. Buy SEC tokens! Now!
  11. Crypto “hedge fund” update
  12. The CryptoMillionsLotto
  13. We ran away with your bitcoins!! LOL, JK
  14. About that Petro
  15. Michelle Mone brings a touch of the avant-garde to finance
  16. Conservative peer stakes her name on a crypto offering, just as the market crashes
  17. Crypto market put on notice — yet again
  18. ICO regulator anger translator
  19. Kodak makes last desperate bid for relevance with cryptocurrency
  20. Crypto cards just suffered a major setback

TFW you feel sorry for the third-richest person in the world.

By: Jemima Kelly

Another Satoshi is in the building and Craig Wright is... thrilled

“This is what we'd hoped would happen.”

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading

Uber's path of destruction; more bang for your yuan; ancient Rome and climate change; the NRA's charitable giving; and more.

By: Jemima Kelly

Much ado about amber

Another gem China loves to import, while the West indulges in imitation jewellery.

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading

Football leaks and corruption; the death of British Steel; the opioid epidemic; Whopper loans; and more.

By: Jemima Kelly

Craig Wright has in no way been officially “recognised” as Satoshi Nakamoto

US copyright registration ≠ government endorsement.

By: Jemima Kelly

This is Musk. This is the crash.

  1. Beyond Meat is beyond reason, when's the crash?
  2. Salesforce/Tableau: cloud cuckoo consolidation
  3. Extel shocker: here comes the crash?
  4. This is nut loaf, will Beyond Meat crash?
  5. Lyft is nuts, and it's crashing.
  6. The cloud software kings are nuts, when's the crash?
  7. Wayfair is nuts, when’s the crash?
  8. Wayfair is nuts, when's the crash?
  9. Someone tell Ghana that it isn’t 2017 anymore
  10. Tilray is nuts. When's the crash?
  11. This is Musk, when's the crash?
  12. This is nuts, when's the crash?
  13. This is the dumbest thing we’ve seen in a long time. When’s the crash?
  14. This is corporate venture capital. When’s the crash?
  15. This is nuts. When’s the crash?
  16. This is nuts, when’s the valuation-gymnastics crash?
  17. This is nuts, when’s the tantrum?

Tesla tips below $200 for the first time since December 2016.

By: Jemima Kelly and Jamie Powell

Further reading

Michael Heseltine, Liberal Democrat; death by derivatives; student loan forgiveness; “it's the D.B. way”; and much more.

By: Jemima Kelly

Bitcoin is the 10-year Treasury of our time

  1. The warm fuzzy feeling of indirectly owning Tencent
  2. The best of Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas
  3. Apple/Tesla: M&A and heartbreak
  4. Did Beyonce make $300m from Uber's IPO?
  5. High resolution music is a solution looking for a problem
  6. Amazon is furious about this negative review
  7. Missing: $500bn of American savings
  8. Blockchain for Brexit: a wonderfully terrible idea
  9. The Bank of Hodlers [sic] (sigh)
  10. Behind the curtain at China Ding Yi Feng
  11. An answer to Mark Cuban's question
  12. Crumbs! It's CRYPTO: the movie!
  13. National Beverage Corp loses its fizz, and its mind
  14. Amazon won't spin-off Amazon Web Services
  15. Mensch! Dan McCrum is innocent, ok?
  16. Europe's $1 trillion tax gap
  17. Why online propaganda mobs are an investment red flag
  18. Davos has produced an amazing new guide on precisely how not to think about risk
  19. When the public relations industry does PR for itself
  20. Who wants to be crippled by student debt?

Where US-China trade tensions go, bitcoin will follow. (Up.)

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading

China's crackdown on liberal economics; Nick Clegg; the cutthroat world of children's food; the Great American rail-trail; and more.

By: Jemima Kelly

Alphaville meets Pamela Anderson, the original influencer

The Baywatch star on Assange, pan-Europeanism and activism-for-all.

By: Jemima Kelly

LGC-Coin fights back against the Financial Times

  1. A $100m ICO being sued by the SEC wants more of your money
  2. A crypto Buffett lunch is on the cards. Poor Warren Buffett.
  3. Introducing the “exit coin” for the luxury sector
  4. A failed ICO is trying to flog itself on eBay
  5. Crypto-shills
  6. Parliament gets it, crypto-currency bunkum edition
  7. The ICO whose team members are literally cartoon characters
  8. The London School of Cryptonomics
  9. Intel's disruption, and the problem with every token pitch
  10. Buy SEC tokens! Now!
  11. Crypto “hedge fund” update
  12. The CryptoMillionsLotto
  13. We ran away with your bitcoins!! LOL, JK
  14. About that Petro
  15. Michelle Mone brings a touch of the avant-garde to finance
  16. Conservative peer stakes her name on a crypto offering, just as the market crashes
  17. Crypto market put on notice — yet again
  18. ICO regulator anger translator
  19. Kodak makes last desperate bid for relevance with cryptocurrency
  20. Crypto cards just suffered a major setback

“We ask for consideration in publishing this momentous achievement which will change the complete cryptocurrency landscape for all.”

By: Jemima Kelly

Introducing the “exit coin” for the luxury sector

  1. A $100m ICO being sued by the SEC wants more of your money
  2. A crypto Buffett lunch is on the cards. Poor Warren Buffett.
  3. LGC-Coin fights back against the Financial Times
  4. A failed ICO is trying to flog itself on eBay
  5. Crypto-shills
  6. Parliament gets it, crypto-currency bunkum edition
  7. The ICO whose team members are literally cartoon characters
  8. The London School of Cryptonomics
  9. Intel's disruption, and the problem with every token pitch
  10. Buy SEC tokens! Now!
  11. Crypto “hedge fund” update
  12. The CryptoMillionsLotto
  13. We ran away with your bitcoins!! LOL, JK
  14. About that Petro
  15. Michelle Mone brings a touch of the avant-garde to finance
  16. Conservative peer stakes her name on a crypto offering, just as the market crashes
  17. Crypto market put on notice — yet again
  18. ICO regulator anger translator
  19. Kodak makes last desperate bid for relevance with cryptocurrency
  20. Crypto cards just suffered a major setback

The “prestigious LGC-Coin cryptocurrency”.

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading

5G's terrifying potential; the tractor monopoly; death by democracy; the “odd couple”; and more.

By: Jemima Kelly

How Monzo is banking on customer apathy

For those who like subpar interest rates with their avocado on toast.

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading

Mark Zuckerberg, “master of leverage”; yield-spread information; Surging support for Stalin; The mysterious disappearance of Fan Bingbing; and more.

By: Jemima Kelly

Binance delists Craig Wright's “Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision”

The bitcoin holy war is getting real.

By: Jemima Kelly

The quality of chart needed to raise $2m in an ICO

  1. Presented without comment
  2. The fall and rise of nations
  3. Why chartcrime has destroyed the blockchain
  4. Happy birthday bitcoin. Your gift: a log chart in The Times
  5. Chart crime as a measure of crypto-desperation
  6. Creative destruction concerns
  7. Wage brain
  8. Et tu, Beto?
  9. Charts and misdemeanours
  10. Deutsche Bank and the thin blue line
  11. The crypto periodic table (sigh)
  12. Wot is colour
  13. US debt is going to crush us all (and gold is the answer)
  14. Wot is gravity
  15. Pie in the sky
  16. Some help please

And then to shut up shop, with all the money gone.

By: Jemima Kelly

Whoever said fintech was really all about branding? (Update*)

  1. UK fintechs aren't eating the banks' lunch just yet
  2. What is a “Domo”?
  3. Fintech’s security/access paradox problem

Halifax wants to be down with the Monzo kids.

By: Jemima Kelly and Martin Coulter

Further reading

The internet is not real life; thanks TurboTax; Johnson & Johnson; London's money-laundering horror; and more.

By: Jemima Kelly

Blockchain for Brexit: a wonderfully terrible idea

  1. The warm fuzzy feeling of indirectly owning Tencent
  2. The best of Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas
  3. Apple/Tesla: M&A and heartbreak
  4. Did Beyonce make $300m from Uber's IPO?
  5. Bitcoin is the 10-year Treasury of our time
  6. High resolution music is a solution looking for a problem
  7. Amazon is furious about this negative review
  8. Missing: $500bn of American savings
  9. The Bank of Hodlers [sic] (sigh)
  10. Behind the curtain at China Ding Yi Feng
  11. An answer to Mark Cuban's question
  12. Crumbs! It's CRYPTO: the movie!
  13. National Beverage Corp loses its fizz, and its mind
  14. Amazon won't spin-off Amazon Web Services
  15. Mensch! Dan McCrum is innocent, ok?
  16. Europe's $1 trillion tax gap
  17. Why online propaganda mobs are an investment red flag
  18. Davos has produced an amazing new guide on precisely how not to think about risk
  19. When the public relations industry does PR for itself
  20. Who wants to be crippled by student debt?

But also an opportunity to show how nonsensical the technology is.

By: Jemima Kelly

Yanis Varoufakis on “radical Europeanism”, erratic Marxism and... Pamela Anderson

  1. Will Davies on populism, data and experts.
  2. Robert Kaplan on jobs, oil and credit
  3. Mithril Capital's Ajay Royan on the next growth frontier
  4. Banking culture since the crisis
  5. Weak spots and worries in the global financial system
  6. The most complicated debt restructuring in history
  7. Alphachat on immigration: This time is (mostly) like the others
  8. Our Bond villain technocracy
  9. Is the eurozone fixable?
  10. Could climate change spark the next financial crisis?
  11. Mehrsa Baradaran on “opportunity zones”
  12. The math wizard who became a customer loyalty scheme guru
  13. Alphachat is back! Vol 2.
  14. Alphachat is back! Vol. 1
  15. Jim Millstein discusses the financialisation of America
  16. Alphachat is on hiatus this week
  17. Benn Steil explains the Marshall Plan
  18. Marcel Fratzscher on the dark side of the German economy — now with transcript!!
  19. Marcel Fratzscher explores the dark side of the German economy
  20. Emi Nakamura on calculating inflation

The former Greek finance minister and economist chats to Alphaville.

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading

Sovereign citizens; a Kinder egg on MMT; financial prey for the populists; a house and a Harvard place; and more.

By: Jemima Kelly

Elon Musk reveals his favourite cryptocurrency

  1. ARK Invest's effective Tesla model
  2. Finally, a Tesla Model 3 for $39,900
  3. Tesla's shifting capital raise narrative
  4. Tesla returns to the capital markets
  5. Three questions about Tesla's first quarter results
  6. The Tesla Twitter war, charted
  7. Autonomy Day brings flat cash flow expectations to Tesla
  8. Tesla and Panasonic hold fire on the Gigafactory
  9. Tesla's dire deliveries
  10. Why Tesla is such a great place to work [Update]
  11. Tesla's parallel universes
  12. Tesla's number one retail investor begins to doubt himself
  13. Tesla's war against whistleblower Martin Tripp
  14. The Tesla semi-truck is ready to reserve [UPDATED]
  15. Tesla: “Surprise! You may not be fired"
  16. German watchdog slaps down Tesla's pricing practices
  17. How much does Tesla have in the bank?
  18. Tesla: 'Surprise! You're fired!'
  19. Meanwhile, just past midnight on the West Coast...
  20. Stuff Elon says, SEC compliance edition

And it's... Dogecoin, obvz. Elon's all about the lulz.

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading

Lachlan Murdoch; the outlandish story of Ollies; mapping the IRS; HYPHENS! and more.

By: Jemima Kelly

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