hi all. bitcoin had a wild, rollercoaster year. it seems to have hit some massive threshhold/ tipping/ turning point last year. saw a bitcoin ATM briefly at a mall this year during the huge bubble in the 1st half. the ATMs spread all over the country, and theyre probably down to a fraction of what they were. a sign of the times.
it looks like its starting to level out/ stabilize by the end of the year.
a cohort at work told me that “bitcoin sounds like a science fiction novel at times”. have been telling others that. its really neat to have 1 thing in life that defies the status quo, expectations, groupthink/ conventional wisdom, the Establishment, “consensus reality” etc… do believe that in the 21st century cryptocurrencies will have an extraordinary far-reaching effect on human social systems eg govts, corporations etc… aka all The Powers That Be™.
there is some idea of a “Digital Autonomous Organization” emerging and its more than paradigm shifting, its revolutionary, a worldwide gamechanger.
am hoping it will involve building a more humane system. so-benignly/anodynely-called “late stage capitalism” is a house of horrors, increasingly nightmarish/ dystopian/ even verging on apocalyptic. adam smith would be horrified at the “invisible hand” turned to “iron fist”. and our political system has failed to reign it in, because its fundamentally compromised.
so actually a more humane system is increasingly no longer optional. the future of the human race depends on it.
one might think this is a “mere” emergent/ mindless accident or “unintended consequence”, but decades of study have revealed to me/ others there are hidden architects of our “neoliberal” system, and they seemed to know exactly what they were doing. it was designed to create maximal inequality because an equivalent synonym not well recognized is “power imbalance/ power seizure”.
bitcoin will force them out of the shadows (already happening to some degree) and a day of reckoning is coming. am foreseeing/ predicting some pain, possibly quite serious, but freedom and integrity will win out in the end.
bitcoin is one of the most extraordinary inventions of my lifetime. and have seen a lot by now, have been making some lists on this site. lived thru the dotcom era. bitcoin reminds me of the good old days. silicon valley bumper sticker: “please god just one more bubble!”
bitcoin is a foundation and many very dynamic innovations are being built on top of it, some of it can be seen at the moment but suspect there will be key advances that were not foreseeable by anyone.
- a. leaders
- b. loss/ crime
- c. rise
- d. national
- e. pushback
- f. innovation
- g. fall
- h. advocacy
- i. overview/ analysis
- j. energy
- k. funds
a. leaders
- 1. Ripple founder beats Zuckerberg as fifth richest man | Daily Mail Online
- 2. The secret Bitcoin billionnaire | Daily Mail Online
- 3. Ripple’s Meteoric Rise Puts Founders Amongst World’s Richest – Bitcoin Wiki
- 4. Jamie Dimon: ‘I regret’ calling bitcoin a fraud
- 5. Silicon Valley Legend Tim Draper: Bitcoin And Crypto Will Take Over The World
- 6. Forbes’ First List Of Cryptocurrency’s Richest People: Meet The Secretive Freaks, Geeks And Visionaries
- 7. PayPal CFO: Bitcoin’s Success is Very Likely – Bitcoinist.com
- 8. Anonymous Bitcoin Donor Rains $56 Million on Stunned Nonprofits – The Chronicle of Philanthropy
- 9. Deutsche Bank’s Marcus Schenck on the future of banking – Business Insider
- 10. Islamic Scholar Declares Bitcoin Sharia Law Compliant, Potentially Opening Market to 1.6 Billion Muslims | CryptoGlobe
- 11. China’s Crypto Millionaires Are Using Bitcoin to Buy Real Estate Abroad – CoinDesk
- 12. Nick Szabo: Bitcoin ETF ‘Might Cause More Problems Than It’s Worth’ – Bitcoinist.com
- 13. If Bitcoin is Rat Poison, the Banks Are the Rats: Pantera Capital CEO
- 14. Bitcoin brawl: Cryptocurrency ‘celebrities’ get into heated exchange on a blockchain cruise | Daily Mail Online
- 15. Crypto Leaders Advise The U.S. Congress To Hurry Up With The Regulation Or They Will Leave The Country | Oracle Times
- 16. The Whales of Bitcoin: Study Shows Their Impact on the Market | Fortune
- 17. ‘Dr. Doom’ economist Nouriel Roubini calls crypto ‘stinking cesspool’
- 18. Op Ed: Why Satoshi Nakamoto Deserves a Nobel Prize | Bitcoin Magazine
- 19. Elon Musk Teases Bitcoin Service in Cryptic Crypto Tweet – CoinDesk
- 20. Elon Musk Mocks Bitcoin Security And Scams With Tongue-In-Cheek Tweet
- 21. Pro-Bitcoin Congressman Jared Polis is Colorado’s New Governor – Bitcoinist.com
- 22. How Self-Proclaimed Tech Know-Nothing Paul Krugman Got it Wrong… Again – Bitcoinist.com
- 23. Hey Paul Krugman, Bitcoin Doesn’t Need ‘Men With Guns’ to Have Value – Bitcoinist.com
- 24. Bitcoin Won’t Last, But Crypto is Here to Stay: Edward Snowden
- 25. Nakamoto’s Neighbor: My Hunt For Bitcoin’s Creator Led To A Paralyzed Crypto Genius
- 26. Ryan Zinke Now Works for Blockchain Kingpin With a Shady Past
- 27. This “Crypto-Genius” Tried to Debate Bitcoin. It Wasn’t Pretty. | WIRED
b. loss/ crime
- 1. ‘I Forgot My PIN’: An Epic Tale of Losing $30,000 in Bitcoin | WIRED
- 2. Japan Suffers the Biggest Cryptocurrency Heist in History (Again!)
- 3. Forget Hacking, Thieves Are Stealing Bitcoins at Gunpoint
- 4. More than 10 percent of $3.7 billion raised in ICOs has been stolen: Ernst & Young
- 5. Coincheck Confirms Crypto Hack Loss Larger than Mt Gox – CoinDesk
- 6. Tales From the Cryptocurrency: The Bitcoin Mystery Death That’s Rocking South Korea
- 7. UK Company Linked to the Theft of 650,000 Bitcoin from Mt Gox – Coinjournal
- 8. Hookers and escorts now taking BITCOIN for ‘full girlfriend experience’ as cryptocurrency revolution reaches sex industry
- 9. Citrus Department employee arrested on grand theft charges
- 10. Our Civil Asset Forfeiture Nightmare – By Brian Krassenstein & Edward Krassenstein – IR.net
- 11. New York Woman Charged with Sending ISIS Bitcoin Faces 90 Years In Prison » Alex Jones’ Infowars: There’s a war on for your mind!
- 12. Dubai police use AI to nab group behind $1.9M crypto heist – Coingeek
- 13. Criminals Thought Bitcoin Was the Perfect Hiding Place, but They Thought Wrong – MIT Technology Review
- 14. Mt Gox Creditors Are Preparing to Claim for Bitcoin Repayments – CoinDesk
- 15. John McAfee’s ‘unhackable’ Bitfi wallet got hacked — again | TechCrunch
- 16. Bitcoin’s ‘First Felon’ Faces More Legal Trouble – The New York Times
- 17. 10-Year Jail Term Sought for Former Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles – CoinDesk
- 18. Kidnappers Demand $10 Million Cryptocurrency Ransom for Norwegian Billionaire’s Wife
- 19. Russian scientists ‘used supercomputers to mine bitcoins’ | Daily Mail Online
- 20. Someone ‘Accidentally’ Locked Away $150M Worth of Other People’s Ethereum Funds – Motherboard
- 21. Hackers are stealing processing power to mine cryptocurrency and are making MILLIONS | Daily Mail Online
- 22. Australia’s Biggest Bank: No to Bitcoin, Yes to Mafia Money Laundering – Bitcoinist.com
- 23. Rabobank Fined $369M for Money Laundering After Calling Bitcoin ‘Risky’
c. rise
- 1. Researchers find that one person likely drove Bitcoin from $150 to $1,000 | TechCrunch
- 2. Everyone Is Getting Hilariously Rich and You’re Not – The New York Times
- 3. Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble – The New York Times
- 4. Bitcoin Storms Back From Dip Below $10,000 in White-Knuckle Ride – Bloomberg
- 5. Bitcoin price could hit $50,000 this year, experts say
- 6. The Bitcoin Evangelists Selling ‘Millennial Gold’
- 7. The Mountain West Is Experiencing A Second Gold Rush. This Time They’re Mining Bitcoin.
- 8. Bitcoin Mining Firm Bitmain Made $3 to $4 Billion in 2017 Profits | Fortune
- 9. Bitcoin wins over small business looking to cut credit card fees | Fox Business
- 10. College students are using student loans to invest in bitcoin. Yes, really – The Boston Globe
- 11. Polls Indicate South Koreans in Twenties, Thirties, Heavily Invested in Crypto – BitcoinNews.com
- 12. 27% Of Millennials Would Choose Bitcoin Over Traditional Stocks – BitcoinNews.com
- 13. Bitcoin industry steals top talent from banks and tech companies – TokEnthusiast
- 14. Bitcoin is the world’s 6th largest currency | Challenge Coins
- 15. Bitcoin’s Future Looks Bright for the First Time in 2018 – Bitcoinist.com
- 16. Bitcoin Speculators, Not Drug Dealers, Dominate Crypto Use Now – Bloomberg
- 17. Coinbase Says It Was Signing Up 50,000 Users a Day – Bloomberg
- 18. Bitcoin Transaction Volume Tops PayPal, Creeps Up on Visa | CryptoSlate
- 19. Bitcoin Growing Popularity In Countries With Failing Monetary Systems – 7Bitcoins
- 20. Ethereum Is Soaring, Pulling Bitcoin And Ripple (XRP) With It–Here’s Why
- 21. Mega Crypto Mining Facilities to be Established in Two Russian Provinces | BTCMANAGER
- 22. Bitcoin ATM Installations Skyrocket Throughout Market Correction
d. national
- 1. Bulgaria has enough Bitcoins to pay off FIFTH of debt | Daily Mail Online
- 2. South Korea Is Not Banning Bitcoin Trade, Financial Regulators Clarify
- 3. Korean Crypto Exchanges to Share Data with Banks in New Account System This Month – Bitcoin News
- 4. Russia Denies Any Possibility to Ban Cryptocurrencies –
- 5. Can China Contain Bitcoin? – MIT Technology Review
- 6. Australia’s Major Banks Confirm They Won’t Ban Buying Bitcoin
- 7. India Is Not Banning Cryptocurrency, Here’s What It Is Doing Instead
- 8. Bitcoin Price Tops $10,000 Following South Korean Regulatory Turnaround – Crypto News Magnet
- 9. White House Official: Bitcoin Regulation Won’t Happen Anytime Soon | Logical World
- 10. Venezuela Earns $735m in a Day From Petro Cryptocurrency Sales | News | teleSUR English
- 11. Iran Already Developing Its Own Cryptocurrency – BTCNN
- 12. Bitcoin Rush in Venezuela: Transaction Volume Reaches $1 Million per Day Milestone | BTCMANAGER
- 13. Iran’s Bitcoin Volume Soars as Rial Value Enters ‘Death Spiral’
- 14. Venezuela devalues bolivar and pegs it to cryptocurrency – Business Insider
- 15. China Lifts Bitcoin Ban; Individuals and Businesses Can Now Own Cryptocurrencies Legally – BTCNN
- 16. Japan Approves Self-Regulation for Cryptocurrency Industry
- 17. Venezuelans Trade Bolivars for Bitcoin Amidst Runaway Inflation | CryptoSlate
- 18. Russia plans to tackle US sanctions with Bitcoin investment, says Kremlin economist
- 19. U.S. Regulators Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether – Bloomberg
e. pushback
- 1. Bitcoin Is Soaring. Here’s Why It’s Not Ready for the Big Time | WIRED
- 2. Bitcoin is none of the things it was supposed to be | The Outline
- 3. Egypt’s grand mufti says bitcoin forbidden in Islam | Daily Mail Online
- 4. Bank of England Governor Claims “Bitcoin Has Failed” – Coinjournal
- 5. Poland central bank paid YouTube star for video about cryptocurrency crash
- 6. Poland Central Bank Allegedly Funded Anti-Digital Currency Campaign
- 7. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are like the Bre-X stock — they will leave investor hopes in tatters | Financial Post
- 8. Multiple US Banks Call Digital Currency a Threat to Financial Services
- 9. Cryptocurrencies Were Never Good for Anybody But the Rich – Motherboard
- 10. Marshall Islands warned against adopting digital currency – BBC News
- 11. SEC Suspends Exchange-Traded Bitcoin and Ether Investment Vehicles – CoinDesk
- 12. IMF Advises Against Crypto as Legal Tender in Marshall Islands Report – CoinDesk
- 13. Opinion | Transaction Costs and Tethers: Why I’m a Crypto Skeptic – The New York Times
- 14. We Need To Shut Bitcoin And All Other Cryptocurrencies Down. Here’s Why.
- 15. Bitcoin should be having a good year. Its decline is a warning signal
- 16. The Bitcoin Hoax | HuffPost
- 17. Men’s Rights Activists: Use Bitcoin to Hide Money From Your Future Ex-Wife
- 18. Lloyds Bank in Bitcoin crackdown: credit card owners banned from buying cryptocurrency
f. innovation
- 1. Bitcoin Now Comes From Satellites In Space – Motherboard
- 2. Hong Kong Startup Plans to Issue 100,000 Crypto-to-Fiat Visa Cards
- 3. Could Cryptocurrency Revolutionize Porn?
- 4. Crypto-Activists Experiment with Voluntary Nations
- 5. New Bitcoin Embassy Opens in the United States – CryptoANTEG.com
- 6. Bitcoin may finally disrupt the credit card rails starting in 2018 – Daily Fintech
- 7. Samsung confirms it is making ASIC chips for cryptocurrency mining | TechCrunch
- 8. MobileCoin: A New Cryptocurrency From Signal Creator Moxie Marlinspike | WIRED
- 9. Are we ready for companies that run themselves? | Aeon Essays
- 10. [1802.04451] Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence
- 11. Premier League clubs trial cryptocurrency as experts predict bitcoins will replace sterling in transfer industry
- 12. Dubai’s first licensed Bitcoin trader: ‘It’s a commodity not a currency’ | Crypto Data
- 13. A Multi-Trillion Dollar Blockchain Use Case – Hacker Noon
- 14. Artificial Intelligence + Blockchain = Passive Income (Forever?)
- 15. Bitcoin Cash Infrastructure Dev: ‘Something Very Wrong with Bitcoin Cash ABC’
- 16. The resolution of the Bitcoin Cash experiment – _unwriter – Medium
- 17. Bitcoin has a huge scaling problem—Lightning could be the solution | Ars Technica
- 18. The Lightning Network Could Make Bitcoin Faster—and Cheaper | WIRED
g. fall
- 1. Bitcoin Whipsaws Investors as Bubble Shows Signs of Bursting – Bloomberg
- 2. Bitcoin Lenders Take the Money and Run During Crypto Crash
- 3. South Korean millennials are reeling from the Bitcoin bust – The Verge
- 4. Bitcoin has lost more than half its value since last year’s all-time high | Ars Technica
- 5. Over 800 cryptocurrencies are now dead as bitcoin feels pressure
- 6. Fear and loathing in cryptocurrencies [Video]
- 7. Bitcoin price: Cryptocurrencies drop suddenly with no explanation
- 8. Bitcoin price: Cryptocurrency market drops as XRP, ethereum plunge
- 9. Bitcoin’s Relative Quiet May Mean That It’s Finding a Bottom – Bloomberg
- 10. Bitcoin Plummets To Its Lowest Price In Over A Year — Here’s What’s Going On – Digg
- 11. $63 Billion Deleted From Crypto in 7 Days, Ethereum Drops to Double Digit
- 12. Bitcoin Op-Ed: Welcome Darkness, My Old Friend
- 13. Bitcoin prices continue their epic plunge – CNN
- 14. Analyst: 25% Recovery In Bitcoin Price Was A “Zombie Rally” | NewsBTC
- 15. Report: Wall Street Is Getting Cold Feet on Bitcoin as Crypto Crash Continues
- 16. The five reasons Bitcoin could enter a more extreme death spiral in 2019 – Alternet.org
- 17. Bitcoin lost a third of its value in 24 hours
h. advocacy
- 1. I’m As Certain As Ever – Bitcoin’s Revolution Is Only Just Beginning – CoinDesk
- 2. Are you guys ready for $5000 tomorrow 🙂 : Bitcoin
- 3. Looking Ahead To $20,000 Bitcoin
- 4. How bitcoin grew up and became big money – The Verge
- 5. The Dollar’s 70-Year Dominance Slowly Coming To An End – Gold Telegraph
- 6. The Central Bank Bubble: It Will Be Ugly – Gold Telegraph
- 7. “Real Users”: In This Italian Mountain Town, Everyone Knows About Bitcoin
- 8. Bitcoin Blockchain Demonstrates the Value of Anarchy – Bloomberg
- 9. The Failure of Fiat Currencies – Gold Telegraph
- 10. Terrified Of Bitcoin – Banks Forced To Innovate For First Time In 40 Years | Zero Hedge
- 11. Bitcoin is backed by something – Tomer Strolight – Medium
- 12. Why Bitcoin? Patreon Pushed By Mastercard to Ban Accounts in ‘Terrible Precedent’ – Bitcoinist.com
- 13. Google Has Suddenly Scrapped Its Bitcoin Ad Ban — Here’s What That Means
- 14. The Trade Of The Decade: Betting On Bitcoin
- 15. Here’s the Solution to the 3-Year-Old, $50,000 Bitcoin Puzzle – Motherboard
i. overview/ analysis
- 1. A Blockchain Explainer
- 2. The 2008 global meltdown and the birth of Bitcoin – Livemint
- 3. Decoding the Enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto and the Birth of Bitcoin – The New York Times
- 4. Does Bitcoin Have a Future? | Alternet
- 5. Bitcoin: The Complete Guide | WIRED
- 6. Is Bitcoin Financing America’s Radical Right Wing? | Alternet
- 7. Bitcoin Donations to Alt-Right Surge Ahead of Charlottesville Anniversary
- 8. Inside the group chats where people pump and dump cryptocurrency | The Outline
- 9. Your Sloppy Bitcoin Drug Deals Will Haunt You for Years | WIRED
- 10. ’04 | Use me baby, one more time – blockwhat? – Medium
- 11. Millennials think stocks are too risky — but bitcoin is awesome | New York Post
- 12. Bitcoin prices could be 40% lower because Tether propped it up — Quartz
- 13. Bitcoin is becoming a “nightmare” for divorce lawyers – VICE News
- 14. Salon Wants to Borrow Your Computer to Mine Cryptocurrency
j. energy
- 1. Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future
- 2. The Hard Math Behind Bitcoin’s Global Warming Problem | WIRED
- 3. There Is Nothing Virtual About Bitcoin’s Energy Appetite – The New York Times
- 4. The Bitcoin Network Consumes as Much Energy per Day as Some Medium-Sized Countries | Alternet
- 5. Bitcoin is consuming as much energy as the country of Ireland | The Outline
- 6. Bitcoin backlash as ‘miners’ suck up electricity, stress power grids in Central Washington | The Seattle Times
- 7. Myth Busting: Bitcoin Mining Is Not Necessarily Bad for the Environment Says Clean Energy Researcher | XBT.net
- 8. Banks Consume Over Three Times More Energy Than Bitcoin, According to Researcher – Bitcoinist.com
- 9. Energy cost of ‘mining’ bitcoin more than twice that of copper or gold | Technology | The Guardian
k. funds
- 1. Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund Makes Monster Bet on Bitcoin – WSJ
- 2. Number of Cryptocurrency Hedge Funds doubled in the last 4 months | Coin Social
- 3. One of the most secretive trading firms on Wall Street has started trading bitcoin – Business Insider
- 4. Soros, Rothschild, and Big Institutional Investors are Entering Bitcoin
- 5. There’s Now an Exchange-Traded Bitcoin Note That American Investors Can Buy – Bloomberg
- 6. Fidelity, World’s 4th Largest Asset Manager, Says Crypto Products ‘Underway’ – Bitcoinist.com
- 7. Yale University Will Invest in 400 Million USD Crypto Fund – 7Bitcoins
- 8. Bill Miller’s hedge fund has half its money in bitcoin
- 9. Bitcoin rises after report says Thiel is buying massive amounts
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