While it takes more to be a sovereign than just operating your own central bank, it doesn’t half help with appearances.
“There would be more women investing in bitcoin if they had more educational materials to help them, a new report found.”
Deutsche’s fuzzy concept of cryptocurrency leads to silly prediction.
When you unpack the structures, there’s not a lot of difference between an ETF and a stablecoin.
Attention future PMs and kings: the Blockingdon Club awaits you.
Why Bitcoin’s Lightning Network is just another pathway back to version 1.0 of the financial system.
(And shows a remarkable correlation to avocados.)
Or when theories of money collide with trendy digital fads.
It makes no sense.
Pegging is naturally centralised.
Why you can’t make a stablecoin out of a stablecoin.
If that seems obvious to you, you are clearly not a bitcoiner.
*Bitcoin bro is a term used by Alphaville and the wider internet, but which not all bitcoin bros self-identify as (including the one in question in this post).
One chart crime to rule them all.
And why stablecoins are less than revolutionary on many fronts.
And is not actually, in any meaningful way, blockchain-based.
Class action lawsuit filed against Tether and Bitfinex by the same lawyers who sued Craig Wright.
Alexa, I’m not in the mood.
ICE introduces deliverable futures, and crypto crashes.
David Marcus says Libra is an “instrument of development” that will (somewhat paradoxically) allow Western nations to preserve their influence.
“Every stock, bond, currency, and commodity will be digitised” - Anthony Pompliano, predicting the future in 2019.
“Open source is going to outer space!”
... the dying liquidity they offer ain’t ever going to be much of a living for crypto outlaws.
“BoJo has helped Bitcoin rediscover its mojo.”
Did we hear you say blockchain, sir? FT Alphaville is here to assist you with your media coverage.
Via the magic of multiple interlocking positive feedback loops, of course.
Craig Wright gets caught with his pants down.
“And what’s your wife’s name?”
Steve Wozniak finds himself in Malta with a token offering endorsed by the prime minister himself.
“If you don’t believe in bitcoin, you’re essentially saying you don’t believe in cryptography.”
