Phi: a platform that connects people in remote off-grid communities to clean, low-cost energy
http://futurearchitectureplatform.org/projects/73faa23f-564b-4df1-92f9-595fd2e63465/
Facebook is developing a cryptocurrency for WhatsApp
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-21/facebook-is-said-to-develop-stablecoin-for-whatsapp-transfers
Pump-and-Dump Groups Become ‘Widespread’ as Market Remains Largely Unregulated
https://cointelegraph.com/news/pump-and-dump-groups-become-widespread-as-market-remains-largely-unregulated
Fraud with ‘blockchain journalism’
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/civil-unrest-how-a-blockchain-based-journalism-startup-bumbled-its-launch/
Cryptocurrencies are like lottery tickets that might pay off in future by Kenneth Rogoff
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/10/cryptocurrencies-bitcoin-kenneth-rogoff
Ken Rogoff: Betting on Dystopia
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/cryptocurrencies-are-like-lottery-tickets-by-kenneth-rogoff-2018-12
International fiscal disobedience consultancy against the Troika (via Patricia): “The artist in collaboration with Catalan activist Enric Duran has created an agency that will consult on the complexities of tax avoidance, playing within the rules of the European Union’s single market. The consultancy advises on strategies borrowed from tax havens, tax assessors that reduce the tax liability of multinational companies.”
https://use.fair-coin.org/listings/troika-fiscal-disobedience-consultancy/
What is the sound of recession? (via Patricia)
https://soundofebb.wordpress.com/download-the-compilation/
A Reddit quote: “Meanwhile BTC hashrate is tanking, utility nonexistent and people are realising that the store of value narrative was an absolute bullshit and that BTC is a ponzi scheme. It costs 200k to 51% to attack BTC now, this figure will just keep going down and down as users abandon BTC shitcoin and miners finish milking it. So not only BTC is useless and is sold on lies but it’s security is at risk big time.”
Exchanges always make money, also when ‘value’ of crypto goes down
https://www.ccn.com/zurcoin-co-founder-alleges-most-exchanges-manipulating-cryptocurrency-market/
Patreon, alt.right and the war on platforms
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/jordan-peterson-says-hell-launch-patreon-alternative-before-christmas-2018-12
Open Music (via Inte)
http://open-music.org/about/
Rachel O’Dwyer on CryptoKitties
https://circaartmagazine.net/a-celestial-cyberdimension-art-tokens-and-the-artwork-as-derivative/
A certain mister Townsend (podcast)
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/12/mb-fund-podcast-erik-townsend-future-bitcoin/
About Ravencoin
https://ravencoin.org/about/
Prof. Steve Keen on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/ProfSteveKeen
“We’re closing. The hard truth behind crypto.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxbCHlXZ-0U
Simon Denny’s Proof of Work CryptoArt Exhibit in Berlin
https://www.schinkelpavillon.de/de/exhibition/curated-by-simon-denny-in-dialogue-with-distributed-gallery-harm-van-den-dorpel-sarah-hamerman-and-sam-hart-kei-kreutler-and-aude-launay/
https://www.monopol-magazin.de/simon-denny-hat-berlin-die-ausstellung-zur-stunde-kuratiert
NYT: 5 Reasons Cryptocurrency Prices Are Plunging Again
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/technology/cryptocurrency-price-drop.html
Hodlers Have a ‘Problematic Mindset’
https://www.ccn.com/wealthbuilding-guru-says-bitcoin-hodlers-have-a-problematic-mindset/
DOJ Probes Possible Crypto Market Manipulation
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/50b539
Cryptogeddon Statsporn
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-24/cryptogeddon-bitcoin-battered-below-4000-long-liquidations-continue
Snowden on Bitcoin and Future of Cryptocurrencies
https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-wont-last-but-crypto-is-here-to-stay-edward-snowden/
Experte zum Thema Blockchain beim Ausschuss Digitale Agenda des Bundestages
https://tante.cc/2018/11/28/experte-zum-thema-blockchain-beim-ausschuss-digitale-agenda-des-bundestages/
Blockchain study finds 0.00% success rate
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/1/30/blockchain_study_finds_0_per_cent_success_rate/
Crypto Fantasies Event in Rotterdam
https://www.facebook.com/events/2277157785852625/
Bitcoin and Beyond (Open Access)
https://www.routledge.com/Bitcoin-and-Beyond-Open-Access-Cryptocurrencies-Blockchains-and-Global/Campbell-Verduyn/p/book/9780415792141
The Crypto Anarchy Institute in Prague
https://www.paralelnipolis.cz/koncepty/cryptoanarchy-institute/
Blockchain’s Hype is Dying
https://medium.com/utopiapress/blockchains-hype-is-dying-according-to-corporate-america-s-s-p-500-earnings-calls-citations-56b97771ce58
ICOs: It Will Only Get Worse
https://www.ccn.com/crisis-after-30-billion-invested-most-crypto-icos-have-nothing-to-show/
Human’s impossibility to deal with arbitrary pricing
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-20/cryptos-collapse-perils-price-reflexivity
3 Reasons for the Crypto Collapse
http://fortune.com/2018/11/19/bitcoin-price-collapse/
Brett Scott: Five Monetary Rebellions
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/five-monetary-rebellions-change-money-system_us_5b9a819ae4b0b64a336ca248
Is Initiative Q the new Bitcoin?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lelalondon/2018/11/01/is-initiative-q-the-new-bitcoin/#3955514c783f
Academics Analyze Crypto Pump and Dump Schemes
https://www.ccn.com/academics-analyze-crypto-pump-and-dump-schemes-in-new-paper/
Martin Zeilinger on KodakCoin
https://unthinking.photography/articles/first-as-snapshot-then-as-decentralised-digital-asset
What is it like to be a Bitcoin?
https://medium.com/@nic__carter/what-is-it-like-to-be-a-bitcoin-56109f3e6753
Fraud via Bitcoin
http://lapdonline.org/home/news_view/64711
A recent Emin Gu Sirer lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4z6NAPBxfk
Bitcoin on the Brink of Implosion
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-09/bitcoin-on-the-brink-of-an-implosion-researcher-juniper-says
The Story of Stone Money
https://possessions-inc.mattsgallery.org/
On the Prediction Market called Augur
https://decryptmedia.com/2018/10/15/augur-ico-prediction-market/
The Dogecoin Story
https://decryptmedia.com/2018/10/16/dogecoin-inventor-jackson-palmer-regrets-nothing/
EU Price Competion: Blockchains for the Good
https://ec.europa.eu/research/eic/index.cfm?pg=prizes_blockchains
Blockchain Solution for Fake News: Make Media Great Again
https://www.mmga.io/
Bitcoin Art Revolution Exhibition in Paris
https://bitcoinartrevolution.wordpress.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/9k86sf/vid_of_bitcoin_art_revolution_opening_show_in/
Cash shows resilience:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/world/asia/modi-india-rupee-cash.html
Same old hype, told by Brian Armstrong: “A Billion People Will Be Using Cryptocurrency in 5 Years”
https://www.ccn.com/a-billion-people-will-be-using-cryptocurrency-in-5-years-brian-armstrong/
Monetary Rebellions (via Inte)
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/five-monetary-rebellions-change-money-system_us_5b9a819ae4b0b64a336ca248
What happens to privacy when we decentralize digital identity?
https://www.meetup.com/blockchain-and-identity/events/254851136/
Bankspeak (via Mieke Gerritzen)
https://newleftreview.org/II/92/franco-moretti-dominique-pestre-bankspeak
Nouriel Roubini: Crypto is the Mother of All Scams
https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Roubini%20Testimony%2010-11-18.pdf
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/15/blockchain-democracy-decentralisation-bitcoin-price-cryptocurrencies
Professor sifts data for signs of rigged markets
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-12/this-texas-finance-professor-sifts-data-for-signs-of-rigged-markets