Closing tabs. Some China related news scattered below as well.
The Bank of England published a couple of papers that have been making the rounds. One area of contention, by some, is a section in the 2nd paper The sustainability of digital currencies’ low transaction fees which discusses some of the issues brought up in Chapter 3.
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- Peter Thiel on Bitcoin/bitcoin (starting at 7:22) see also his AMA response to bitcoin
- Over 20,000,000 USD was wagered on SatoshiBet last month on reddit (41382.298 BTC)
- Paul Krugman on Bitcoin (probably the least popular person in the cryptocurrency world, here is an exit interview at Princeton)
- Coinbase Expands Internationally, Now Available In 14 Countries from Coinbase (was a project that Charlie Lee worked on)
- China seems doomed to repeat the mistakes that hobbled Japan’s economy for a decade from Quartz
- Mobile Money Accounts are Outnumbering Bank Accounts in Africa from Let’s Talk Payments (“there are 242 mobile money service providers operating in 89 countries holding a total of 203 million mobile money accounts. Although Kenyans have been using such service for more number of years as compared to others, but they are not the leader anymore. In Tanzania, in 2013, 44% of adults used some form of mobile money as compared to 38% of Kenyans. Tanzanians conducted 99.9 million mobile money transactions worth $1.8 billion.”)
- Here’s why Apple Pay will shake up consumer payments, even if it gets lost amid the iDevice frenzy from PandoDaily
- Details on the Central Bank of Ecuador’s digital currency project (en espanol)
- A simple explanation of how Apple Pay works (probably): It’s all about tokenization from Richard Brown
- Bonafide and Coinomat
- Check out IBM’s proposal for an internet of things architecture using Bitcoin’s block chain tech from GigaOm
- Modern anti-spam and E2E crypto by Mike Hearn
- Make Master Protocol harder to censor by Ron Gross (tragedy of the commons/public good’s problem)
- Foreign students: Coming and going Bright foreigners like to study in America. Shame they can’t stay from The Economist
- Afforestation in China: Great Green Wall from The Economist
- How Bitcoin Brokers Trade Millions Without an Exchange from CoinDesk
- An Analysis of Darkcoin’s Blockchain Privacy via Darksend from Kristov Atlas (see also Reply to Kristov’s paper from Darkcoin developer eduffield)
- The Digital Wallet Revolution from The New York Times
- China’s Global Mining Play Is Failing to Pan Out from The Wall Street Journal
- Dogecoin Community Celebrates as Merge Mining with Litecoin Begins from CoinDesk
- The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew Mcafee
- State of the Bitcoin Economy – Jonathan Levin, Co-Founder Coinometrics (video)