2022-04-21
Interesting argument: PoS creates Ponzis by locking up coins such that the earliest stakers are eligible to unlock their funds first and sell at the top. https://twitter.com/...
Cobie
A look at the evolution of crypto staking, from a useful tool to a quasi-Ponzi scheme, and how Yuga Labs is effectively paying people in ApeCoin to hold ApeCoin
Recently, I was contacted by a member of the board of ApeCoin, which is the BAYC token's equivalent of a board of directors I guess. Tweets: @cobie , @degenspartan , @cobie , @chof...
2022-03-29
You have two options for financial instruments: commodities and securities. Removing PoW and replacing it with some Rube Goldberg “staking” creates securities and Ponzis, and divorces a coin from being a commodity. Energy is the only reasonable commodity on which to base Bitcoin. https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Greenpeace and other groups are running ads in the NYT, WSJ, and others, funded by Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen, highlighting bitcoin's environmental impact
Consortium launches effort advocating changes to the cryptocurrency's code — A consortium of environmental groups launched …
2020-10-12
Remember Watergate? Do you really think the political landscape is less contentious now than it was in 1972, and that no political candidate could ever abuse these proposed powers? https://twitter.com/...
ZDNet
Five Eyes governments as well as India and Japan make a new call for backdoors into products that are end-to-end encrypted
A number of experts have pointed to the information … Manik Berry / Fossbytes : Five Eyes, India, And Japan Want ‘Backdoor’ To End-To-End Encryption Phil Muncaster / infosecurity-m...
2020-07-03
This shouldn't have been newsworthy. Check the RBF flag. Users, check that your wallets handle RBF correctly. https://www.coindesk.com/...
CoinDesk
Researchers expose a flaw in at least three major crypto wallets, Ledger Live, Edge, and Breadwallet, which could be exploited for double-spending users' funds
Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk :