Cryptonite Feb 2022
Gold is the New Gold
Its time for Cryptonite - our monthly roundup of all things crypto - with Tejaswi Nadahalli.
You can follow Tejaswi on twitter @nadahalli and he blogs at tejaswin.com
Stuff that we discussed:
Canada’s blockades make it clear: Crypto can be a form of shadow banking — and needs a crackdown (GlobeAndMail)
Canada’s crackdown puts crypto to the test (Protocol)
Bitcoin’s Use Case Strengthens As Canadian Bank Accounts Get Frozen (Forbes)
The Theory of a Blockchain Circular Economy (Coindesk)
How Bitcoin Mining Pools Work (River)
The Blocksize War: The battle over who controls Bitcoin's protocol rules (Amazon)
What is programmable money? (Fed)
BIP 119. What is BIP 119 and how would it change Bitcoin? (Voonze)
$1.7 million in NFTs stolen in apparent phishing attack on OpenSea users (Verge)
Opensea CEO Dismisses $200 Million Hack Rumor, Claims Incident Was a Phishing Attack (Bitcoin)
Two Arrested for Alleged Conspiracy to Launder $4.5 Billion in Stolen Cryptocurrency (justice.gov)
Inside the Chess Match That Led the Feds to $3.6 Billion in Stolen Bitcoin (Time)
A cringe rapper slash Forbes contributor allegedly found with billions in stolen Bitcoin (Verge)
RBI on offline payments (Notification, Mint, DH, BL)
Links
Why Ukraine Matters (quillette)
A Military and Political Disaster The Calamitous Errors of Germany's Russia Policy (spiegel)
Putin’s war and its economic and geopolitical realities (berkeley)
Why is Russia invading Ukraine and what does Putin want? (BBC)
Europe is the free-rider continent (Economist)
Markets this Week
So, Putin.
Meme of the Week
