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More People Dipping Toes Into Web Monetization
5.11.2020
Léonie Watson:
I do think that Coil and Web Monetization are at the vanguard of a quiet revolution.
Here’s me when I’m visiting Léonie’s site:
Enjoy the pennies!
My Coil subscription ($5/month) doles out money to sites I visit that have monetization set up and installed.
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Why Crypto Is the Next Big Trend in Financial Planning
5.11.2020
If the robo-advising trend taught advisers anything, it's that millennial and Gen X investors will invest how they want. And right now, they want crypto
‘Economics Will No Longer Be the Handmaiden of Politics’: A History of the Cypherpunks, Feat. Jim Epstein
4.11.2020
An enlightening conversation with Reason’s Jim Epstein, who just released a four-part YouTube documentary on the cypherpunk movement
FTC Sending More Than $470K to People Duped by Bitcoin Funding Team, My7Network Scams
4.11.2020
Most of the the participants in the schemes failed to recoup their initial investments, the FTC said
A (Not Quite) Complete History of Money, Feat. Planet Money’s Jacob Goldstein
3.11.2020
One of the hosts of NPR’s legendary “Planet Money” takes us on a whirlwind tour of some of the key moments of money history in the last 1,000 years
China’s digital yuan is ‘a long way’ from beating USD says financial firm exec
3.11.2020
Sounds like its CBDC is unlikely to dethrone the United States dollar as the world’s reserve currency anytime soon
Who Is Better for Bitcoin, Trump or Biden?
2.11.2020
In a chaotic year of dueling recriminations and very different visions of the future, the real question of this U.S. presidential election is: Who is better for bitcoin?
Hut 8 Appoints Jaime Leverton as CEO
2.11.2020
Interim CEO Jimmy Vaiopoulos will return to his role as CFO
iOS/Android sales deep dive: 'Meteorfall: Krumit's Tale'
2.11.2020
[The GameDiscoverCo game discovery newsletter is normally written by ‘how people find your game’ expert Simon Carless, and is a regular look at how people discover and buy video games in the 2020s. Following a look at how his deckbuilding roguelike Meteorfall: Krumit’s Tale...
China’s digital yuan pilots have processed $300M so far, says PBoC head
2.11.2020
China’s digital yuan pilot program is picking up speed
By the Numbers: More Bitcoin Bulls Than Ever Before
1.11.2020
A Long Reads Sunday reading of Grayscale’s recent “Bitcoin Investor Survey.”
BitMEX Chiefs Looted More Than $440M From Exchange After Finding Out About Probes, Suit Alleges
31.10.2020
The suit seeks an order of attachment against the parent company of BitMEX
$1.1 Billion Crypto Ponzi: Masterminds of Wotoken Head to Prison in China
31.10.2020
A Chinese court has confirmed the sentencing of the masterminds behind the 7.7 billion yuan Chinese Ponzi scheme Wotoken, which had over 715,000 investors. Wotoken Scammers Sentenced to Prison The Intermediate People’s Court of Yancheng city, Jiangsu province, denied an appeal by four...
The World Is Never Getting Off Government Stimulus
31.10.2020
The Breakdown weekly recap looks at bitcoin buying by Iran, JPM Coin and the latest round of lockdowns coming to Europe
FTX Increases Trump Futures Margins Before the Election, Biden Futures Lead by 64%
31.10.2020
At the beginning of the year, the trading platform FTX Exchange launched a futures market so people can bet on the U.S. election and created a futures contract token called TRUMP. On Friday, FTX revealed that the exchange is lifting the initial margin requirements to $0.50 for its TRUMP token...
How the IRS tracks down people who don’t report their crypto
30.10.2020
The United States tax authority doesn't seem to be very efficient when it comes to tracking down who owes crypto taxes — for now
People Want Data Privacy But Don't Always Know What They're Getting
30.10.2020
Gabriel Kaptchuk , Researcher Assistant Professor in Computer Science, Boston University.
Elissa M. Redmiles, Faculty member & Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute.
Rachel Cummings, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute...
Why Satoshi Chose Halloween to Release the Bitcoin White Paper
30.10.2020
Was Satoshi’s release of the Bitcoin White Paper an allusion to the Reformation or something to do with the ancient pagan tradition of Samhain?
FTX Raises ‘TRUMP’ Futures Margins as Price Suggests Lower Expectations of Election Win
30.10.2020
FTX said the price of one TRUMP contract roughly equals the president's expected chances of reelection
Advising the Advisers: ‘On Purpose’ Podcast Live Taping Party
30.10.2020
As a financial adviser, you might feel pressured to know every answer to your clients’ portfolio needs. But you’ve got some burning questions about digital assets like bitcoin. Now’s your chance to ask: On Purpose podcast host and Onramp Invest CEO Tyrone Ross invites the public to CoinDesk’s first...