‘They’re Missing the Point!’ – Antonopoulos Slams Banks’ Blockchain Romance
Bitcoin visionary Andreas Antonopoulos recently stated that blockchains would “suck” at doing the things the world’s biggest banks hope to achieve. Moreover, the futile effort of creating private blockchains is just one of the “five stages of grief” that traditional finance is going through as they come to grips with the open-access, decentralized,....
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At his most recent talk in Toronto, Andreas Antonopoulos pointed out the folly of relying on tradition — particularly that of using identity verification — or what he calls the “means” that’s no longer needed to achieve the end in blockchain transactions. The End to the Means. On June 20-21, Mastering Bitcoin author Andreas Antonopoulos, gave yet another....
Andreas M Antonopoulos gave a talk on Bitcoin as a part of the Wired Money 2015 series the other week. No slides, just a pure talk about what Bitcoin essentially is, and what people are doing to it, how they’re using it, and where we’re headed—regardless of these independent areas and actions. Bitcoin attacks and addresses finance in a fundamental “genetic” way. Antonopoulos says, “Bitcoin is really disruptive. Bitcoin is really strange. Bitcoin is really different.” But it’s this uniqueness that can put off big international conglomerates. So what’s Corporate America and the like to do?....
In 2021 alone, victims within the FBI San Francisco division’s territory lost more than $64 million to romance scams, compared to just over $35 million in 2020. The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a warning against the rise in romance scams in the San Francisco Bay Area, with the latest trend involving cryptocurrencies. Just a few days ahead of Valentine’s day, the FBI San Francisco field office alerted the public about the rise in romance scams based on the complaints filed with the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). A romance scam involves....
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned about romance scams using cryptocurrency. Scammers use romance as a hook to lure people into bogus investments, especially crypto, the federal agency explained. “2021 numbers are nearly five times those reported in 2020, and more than 25 times those reported in 2019,” said the FTC. FTC Warns About Crypto Romance Scams The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a warning Thursday about crypto-related romance scams. The FTC is an independent agency of the U.S. government whose principal mission is the enforcement of civil....
Cryptocurrency advocate Andreas Antonopoulos speaks out against PayPal, claiming Bitcoin bought on the payments platform isn’t real Bitcoin. ICYMI The headlines say, "Bitcoin is now available on PayPal!" But is it? Here’s why PayPal #bitcoin isn’t bitcoin: https://t.co/sFU7GL9ZP6 pic.twitter.com/dMCRtBKDHr — Andreas ☮ 🌈 ⚛ ⚖ 🌐 📡 📖 📹 🔑 🛩 (@aantonop) December 15, 2020 […]