Link list, collected by Geert Lovink and many others of the MoneyLab networks, for the MoneyLab email list, February-October 2017:
Blockcerts: Using blokchain for identity management is (mostly) ridiculous
https://blog.xot.nl/2017/09/06/blockcerts-using-blokchain-for-identity-management-is-mostly-ridiculous/
Bitcoin price bubble ‘will collapse’ while the tech that underpins it lives on, Kenneth Rogoff predicts
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/news-blog/2017/oct/09/bitcoin-price-bubble-government-cryptocurrency
Mastermind Of $4 Billion Bitcoin Money Laundering Operation May Be Extradited To US
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-02/mastermind-4-billion-bitcoin-money-laundering-operation-may-be-extradited-us
Raghuram Rajan breaks silence, says neither he nor RBI under him wanted demonetisation
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/raghuram-rajan-breaks-silence-says-he-wasn-t-on-board-for-demonetisation/story-6rXr8VWBpFd4w37NySulEN.html
Yet another intro, this time via the Blockstack lens (including video)
https://reason.com/reasontv/2017/06/22/blockstack-bitcoin-blockchain-internet
Chaos and hackers stalk investors on cryptocurrency exchanges
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/bitcoin-exchanges-risks/
“That’s not Bitcoin, this is Bitcoin.”
https://medium.com/@StopAndDecrypt/thats-not-bitcoin-this-is-bitcoin-95f05a6fd6c2
Diese Idee ist radikaler, als Google und Facebook je waren (in German)
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/unternehmen/deutsches-start-up-diese-idee-ist-radikaler-als-google-und-facebook-je-waren-15226701.html
ZeroNet: open, free and uncensorable websites, using Bitcoin cryptography and BitTorrent network
https://zeronet.io/
The prospects of Blockchain as an electric heater
https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/policy/the-ridiculous-amount-of-energy-it-takes-to-run-bitcoin
Blockchain and Privacy (three parts)
https://decentralize.today/zero-knowledge-proofs-zcash-and-ethereum-f6d89fa7cba8
What Cryptocurrency Enthousiasts Probably Won’t Tell You
http://www.ofnumbers.com/2017/09/21/eight-things-cryptocurrency-enthusiasts-probably-wont-tell-you/
Amir Taaki in Syria
https://www.coindesk.com/radical-academy-amir-taakis-new-hacker-team-spreading-bitcoin-syria/
The Blockchain Research Institute Manifesto (Tapscott inc.)
https://bitcoinsaltcoins.com/the-blockchain-research-institute-manifesto-blockchain-research-institute-medium/
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/
Quartz Bitcoin Eduporn
https://qz.com/email/quartz-obsession/1080141/
‘Better than blockchain’ new asset trading system unveiled
Visual instruction video about what a blockchain is
https://anders.com/blockchain/
Bitcoin Orbituaries
https://99bitcoins.com/obituary-stats
Why We Built a Social Network that Costs 10¢ to Post Content
https://www.yours.org/content/why-we-built-a-social-network-that-costs-10–to-post-content-b82af95f96bf/
https://www.yours.org/about/
Wind energy used to mine cryptocurrency to fund climate research
https://julianoliver.com/output/harvest
Is There a Cryptocurrency Bubble? Just Ask Doge
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/business/cryptocurrency-bubble-doge.html
Google introduces Tez, a mobile money wallet for India
https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/17/google-debuts-tez-a-mobile-wallet-and-payments-app-for-india/
India: Narendra Modi tries to shut down demonetisation critics with these big numbers
http://www.financialexpress.com/economy/narendra-modi-tries-to-shut-down-demonetisation-critics-with-these-big-numbers/836290/
Bankers, Economists Say Demonetisation Had Other Successes Even If It Lost Black Money Fight
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/2017/08/30/rbi-annual-report-data-demonetisation-cash-returns-bankers-economists-comment
The next big gold rush: virtual goods
https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/13/the-next-big-gold-rush/
Carlo lynX: Do we have to make financial use of blockchains illegal?
http://my.pages.de/illegalblockchains
Daren Stevenson: Bitcoin = Death Processor
https://medium.com/ill-ixi-lli/-da9326e97d1f
US Tax Crackdown on Bitcoin: Tracking Bitcoiners with Chainanalysis
https://news.bitcoin.com/irs-crackdown-tracking-bitcoiners-with-chainalysis/
Does Bitcoin Have a Mining Monopoly Problem?
http://fortune.com/2017/08/25/bitcoin-mining/
Who Has your Back in Crypto?
http://hackingdistributed.com/2017/08/26/whos-your-crypto-buddy/
Why aren’t Indians angrier over note ban failure? (via PR)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-41109272
The Cost of Decentralization in 0x and EtherDelta
http://hackingdistributed.com/2017/08/13/cost-of-decent/
US Launches Quiet Crackdown On Cryptocurrencies
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-13/us-launches-quiet-crackdown-cryptocurrencies
China’s Bitmain dominates bitcoin mining. Now it wants to cash in on artificial intelligence
https://qz.com/1053799/chinas-bitmain-dominates-bitcoin-mining-now-it-wants-to-cash-in-on-artificial-intelligence/
Meet the consequences of trust-less transactions (thanks to EdJ)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/business/dealbook/phone-hack-bitcoin-virtual-currency.html
Wikileaks now accepting Zcash donations
https://www.coindesk.com/wikileaks-now-accepting-zcash-donations/
Four quadrants of the crypto universe
https://www.coindesk.com/four-quadrants-dividing-conquering-crypto-universe/
Geknabbel aan het bank monopoly op betalen (in Dutch)
https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2017/07/119566-bank-england-allow-non-bank-payment-providers-access-rtgs
The DeMo story continues:
http://blog.mondato.com/global-demonetisation/
Poverty reduction and financial inclusion:
http://paymentsviews.com/2017/07/26/poor-wanting-and-without-the-payments-gap/
‘Greed is good’ now becomes too much greed is death
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/business/dealbook/initial-coin-offerings-sec-virtual-currency.html
Bitfinex: Regarding Forks and Margin Trading (March 27, 2017, via EdJ)
https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/197
Bitcoin impending accounting disaster
http://hackingdistributed.com/2017/07/29/bitcoin-impending-accounting-disaster/
New initiative aims to deliver on the promise of blockchain for identity (via VM)
https://www.devex.com/news/new-initiative-aims-to-deliver-on-the-promise-of-blockchain-for-identity-90620
Blockchain and Economic Development: Hype vs. Reality (via Hapee)
https://www.cgdev.org/publication/blockchain-and-economic-development-hype-vs-reality
Is the stock market going to crash?
https://isthestockmarketgoingtocrash.com/
Silicon Valley’s push for universal basic income is — surprise! — totally self-serving (via P. de Vries)
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rushkoff-universal-basic-income-silicon-valley-20170721-story.html
Parity’s Wallet Bug is not Alone (via Eduard de Jong)
http://hackingdistributed.com/2017/07/20/parity-wallet-not-alone
Debunkimg Contactless Payment fraud info (via EdJ)
http://blog.mondato.com/contactless/
The Big News Behind the BTC-e Arrest and Mt Gox Connection
https://www.coindesk.com/coindesk-explainer-btc-e-arrest-mt-gox-connection-big-news/
US Government Seizes Russian Bitcoin Exchange BTC-e Domain
https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-government-seizes-russian-bitcoin-exchange-btc-e-domain
Urban China goes Cashless (NYT)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/16/business/china-cash-smartphone-payments.html
Hacker steals Ethereum coins from clueless ICO people
https://thehackernews.com/2017/07/ethereum-cryptocurrency-heist.html
Proposal for a decentralized bitcoin exchange: Bitsquare
https://bitsquare.io/
The Coming PSD2 Drama: “How PSD2 is sparking European innovation”
https://medium.com/@The_LHoFT/beyond-compliance-how-psd2-is-sparking-european-innovation-7aa8e4b47ab8
ICOs: A Shortcut to Boom or Bust (Via EdJ)
http://blog.mondato.com/icos-boom-or-bust/
Nobody Understands Bitcoin
http://www.coindesk.com/nobody-understands-bitcoin-thats-ok/
The Crazy Security Behind the Birth of Zcash, the Inside Story
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/.WWt_NS1uwR8.hackernews
Why CryptoCurrencies are Falling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rDid6M8GGU
Buy/Sell Bitcoin Meme
https://imgur.com/a/Gq6fy
The Ego Game
http://www.coindesk.com/watches-bitcoins-watchmen-scalings-great-game-egos/
Let’s link this to MoneyLab: The next big gold rush (via Aram Bartholl)
The next big gold rush
Initial coin offerings: cryptocurrency’s next high-risk big money maker (via Patrice Riemens)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/10/initial-coin-offerings-cryptocurrency-next-high-risk-big-money-maker
The Question of Chinese Domination of Bitcoin
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/6me4v5/is_it_true_that_bitcoin_is_totally_being/
The ultimate 3500-word guide in plain English to understand Blockchain
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/blockchain-absolute-beginners-mohit-mamoria
underground hackers event in Amsterdam
https://hackon.nl/
Proposal to kill the cryptocurrency term
http://www.coindesk.com/killing-cryptocurrency-time-retire-term/
WTF is ethereum?
http://whatthefuckisethereum.com/
Researchers finding out about bitcoin manipulation, demand “to work with regulators”
http://voxeu.org/article/price-manipulation-bitcoin-ecosystem
Unlike Us meets MoneyLab: BAT–Blockchain-based Digital Advertising
https://medium.com/@AttentionToken/announcing-a-new-blockchain-based-digital-advertising-platform-775203933c44
NYT discovers a trend: getting rid of VCs
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/business/dealbook/coin-digital-currency.html
AI Hedge Fund Goes Live On Ethereum
https://medium.com/numerai/an-ai-hedge-fund-goes-live-on-ethereum-a80470c6b681
“I went inside Genesis Mining Farm”
https://steemit.com/trevonjb/@trevonjb/i-went-inside-genesis-minings-bitcoin-and-ethereum-mining-farm
Digital currencies will make next crisis worse
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-14/bundesbanks-weidmann-digital-currencies-will-make-next-crisis-worse
Duniter, or the other ideas on cryptocurrencies (via Patrice)
https://en.duniter.org/theoretical/#a-free-economy
DJ Hardwell on hacking and the blockchain
https://thenextweb.com/insider/2017/05/31/hardwell-growth-hacked-career/
Asking the Obvious: Is China Manipulating the Bitcoin Prize?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-15/peoples-bank-china-manipulating-bitcoin-price
Marc Cuban Roasts Bitcoin on Twitter
https://futurism.com/mark-cuban-roasts-bitcoin-on-twitter/
Ray Kurzweil: “People need to have confidence in their currency”
http://www.coindesk.com/googles-director-engineering-wont-invest-bitcoin/
Why Bitcoin is not a Bubble (for future use)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/four-reasons-bitcoin-is-not-a-bubble-analyst
WhalePanda: I was wrong about Ethereal
https://medium.com/@WhalePanda/i-was-wrong-about-ethereum-804c9a906d36
Zeptochain: The Million Dollar Bitcoin (via Jaromil)
https://medium.com/@zeptochain/the-million-dollar-bitcoin-4c108f3706b
Blockchains are the new Linux, not the new Internet (via Florian Cramer)
https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/28/double-double-cryptocoin-bubble/
Ian Bogost: Cryptocurrency Might be a Path to Authoritarianism (via Florian Cramer)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/blockchain-of-command/528543/
A surge in the value of crypto-currencies provokes alarm (via Eduard de Jong)
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21722235-bitcoin-far-only-game-town-surge-value-crypto-currencies
Buzz Factor or Innovation Potential: What Explains Cryptocurrencies’ Returns
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0169556
The Current InsurTech Landscape: Business Models and Disruptive Potential http://www.ivw.unisg.ch/~/media/internet/content/dateien/instituteundcenters/ivw/studien/ab-insurtech_2017.pdf
Untimely Theory
https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/330.pdf
Bitcoin’s Fatal Flaws
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-18/bitcoins-fatal-flaw
How Onecoin Became One of the Biggest Scams in Crypto History
http://bitsonline.com/onecoin-biggest-scam-history/
Demonetization Roulette: India’s unusual approach to creating a cashless economy
http://paymentsviews.com/2017/03/28/demonetization-roulette-indias-unusual-approach-to-creating-a-cashless-economy/
Demystifying India’s Digital Payment Infrastructure
http://paymentsviews.com/2017/03/23/demystifying-indias-digital-payment-infrastructure/
Is Mobile Money Safe for Hackers?
http://blog.mondato.com/mobile-money-hack
ICO Irrationality? 300-million Gnosis Valuation Sparks Market Concerns
http://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-ico-irrationality-300-million-gnosis-valuation-sparks-market-concerns/
Beach Boy Bitcoin
https://medium.com/bitcoin-think/beach-boy-bitcoin-64f62bed4c7e
Cheap monnies… hack bitcoin and get those coins!
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.07524.pdf
Financial Times published an article supportive of platform co-ops
https://www.ft.com/content/beb85bdc-1f8e-11e7-b7d3-163f5a7f229c
Something to analyse: launch of IMF’s fintech advisory board
https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2017/03/15/pr1784-imf-managing-director-welcomes-establishment-of-high-level-advisory-group-on-fintech
Meet Eva—The Horror of the Invisible Bank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXaStS5UPVM&feature=youtu.be
How Amir Taaki Tried to Build Bitcoin Economy in Syria While Fighting ISIS
https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-amir-taaki-tried-to-build-bitcoin-economy-in-syria-while-fighting-isis
Mondato on financial inclusion
http://blog.mondato.com/financial-inclusion-eclipse-consumer-protection-concerns/
Blockchains believers can make any claim, and there is no one there to object, lovely!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iF73cybTBs&feature=youtu.be
http://blockchain-documentary.com/
Segwit vs. Bitcoin Unlimited and Bitcoin’s Fork Explained Simply
https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-fork-segwit-vs-bitcoin-unlimited-explained-simply/
Making Money-Promise and peril in the Indian bitcoin economy
http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reportage/bitcoin-india-after-demonetisation
Cashless Society: a Credible Death Threat to Privacy
https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2017/sessions/cashless-society-credible-death-threat-privacy
Could Blockchain Put Money Back in Artists’ Hands?
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-blockchain-money-artists-hands
Nobody understands bitcoin (and that’s OK)
http://www.coindesk.com/nobody-understands-bitcoin-thats-ok
Lees jij net als wij journalistiek gratis? Dan hebben we je nodig (in Dutch)
http://www.denieuwereporter.nl/2017/03/lees-jij-net-als-wij-journalistiek-gratis-dan-hebben-we-je-nodig/
S.E.C. Rejects Winklevoss Brothers’ Bid to Create Bitcoin E.T.F.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/business/dealbook/winkelvoss-brothers-bid-to-create-a-bitcoin-etf-is-rejected.html
Interesting read re: potential Bitcoin hardfork
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-13/bitcoin-miners-signal-revolt-in-push-to-fix-sluggish-blockchain
Reserve Bank India warns against cryptocurrencies like bitcoin
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-rbi-deputy-guv-warns-against-virtual-currencies-like-bitcoin-2339028
A discussion forum inside the Bitcoin blockchain
https://bitaps.com/1K69sEhUwNgiva3xzPnToxS89dzydU7nPm
Bitcoin’s “creator” races to patent technology with gambling tycoon
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/bitcoin-wright-patents/
A blockchain of 200 lines of code
https://medium.com/@lhartikk/a-blockchain-in-200-lines-of-code-963cc1cc0e54#.64hi8ei9w
The Potential for Blockchain to Transform Electronic Health Records
https://hbr.org/2017/03/the-potential-for-blockchain-to-transform-electronic-health-records
Building the Hyperconnected Future on Blockchains
http://internetofagreements.com/files/WorldGovernmentSummit-Dubai2017.pdf
The Great Cryptocurrency Heist
https://aeon.co/essays/trust-the-inside-story-of-the-rise-and-fall-of-ethereum
The Reception of the Financial Crisis in Hollywood Movies
https://www.diggitmagazine.com/articles/broad-daylight
Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/19/basic-income-finland-low-wages-fewer-jobs
Blockchain 101—A Visual Demo
https://anders.com/blockchain/
What Would Ghandi Think?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/31/india-may-give-billions-of-free-money-to-its-citizens-what-would-gandhi-think/?utm_term=.df6958a1a70f
Demonitization Would Have Caused Lasting Damage
https://scroll.in/article/827546/demonetisation-may-have-done-permanent-damage-to-india-political-economist-barbara-harriss-white
Trump2Cash
https://github.com/maxbbraun/trump2cash