FATF and the Red Flag Act of Money
As the outsiders were working hard to push automobiles on to the streets, the horse-carriage industry was busy lobbying the regulators in an effort to stifle innovation. They wanted to hype up the conjectured dangers of automobiles and bring the progress down to a level they were…
A 10 year anniversary and many forgotten ones
Last week many of us celebrated the 10th anniversary of the bitcoin white paper. And there are many more of these that are going to follow, 10 years for: the Bitcoin software, the mining of the genesis block, the first bitcoin transaction to Hal Finney, the…
Financial infrastructure for a technology poised to disrupt finance?
We have seen many headlines of financial giants entering the crypto space in one way or another. Some from the recent past: – $7.2 Trillion Fidelity Will Help Customers Invest in Bitcoin (story) – The NYSE’s Owner Wants to Bring Bitcoin to Your 401(k) (story)…
Liquid: Bitcoin’s sidekick?
Buried under the news of the market crash (another one) and Nouriel Roubini’s rhetorics (again) was an announcement that would have caught your attention if you were interested in the technical infrastructure development of the crypto space and not just the price or MSM headlines. It was about the…