Y NO BLOCKCHAIN? (But also: Y BLOCKCHAIN?)
Is it transparent enough? And why is it called Libra anyway?
We've done the reading so you can impress at dinner parties.
Facebook takes a page out of JPMorgan and the Fed’s playbook; attempts to create a global digital reserve.
While investigating bitcoin transaction fees, this reporter got stung with a $3.1 fee. Yes really.
Nearly two years after the introduction of a coding fix called SegWit intended to help scale bitcoin, transaction fees collected by miners are on the rise again...
“Cathio, the Catholic blockchain.”
An outfit called Affinity Capital Exchange thinks they can and is pitching airlines to use their points as would-be collateral.
F is for FUDsters.
Decentralised fintechs are making big promises about liquifying illiquid assets with tokenisation. But are they alert to the associated risk?
FightTheSECCoin, anyone?
TFW you feel sorry for the third-richest person in the world.
“This is what we'd hoped would happen.”
And regulators need to wake up to this risk.
The art of presenting crypto experimentation as about-to-be rolled out initiatives has reached its zenith.
US copyright registration ≠ government endorsement.
Where US-China trade tensions go, bitcoin will follow. (Up.)
“We ask for consideration in publishing this momentous achievement which will change the complete cryptocurrency landscape for all.”
The “prestigious LGC-Coin cryptocurrency”.
How one crypto exchange may have become the worst of the conventional system.
The bitcoin holy war is getting real.
And then to shut up shop, with all the money gone.
(By launching the shittest of all the shitcoins, of course.)
And it's... Dogecoin, obvz. Elon's all about the lulz.
We at Alphaville have egg all over our face.
Pinch, punch, first of the month.
And the myth of decentralisation.
Skilling is sniffing out the blockchain bros, says the WSJ.
“Seller does not accept returns”.
“FEAR. IS THE ULTIMATE. CURRENCY.”
