Does Bitcoin Need a John Law?
Jamie Dimon opened his mouth in Davos about bitcoin and nonsense came out. "It's a terrible store of value," Dimon told CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin. "It could be replicated over and over." "It doesn't have the standing of a government," added Dimon. "And honestly, a lot of it - what I've read from you guys - a lot of it is being used for illicit purposes."....
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The highly controversial and highly entertaining John McAfee is dead. As our sister site Bitcoinist informed, “According to a spokeswoman for the Superior Court of Catalonia, former crypto promoter John McAfee was discovered dead in his prison cell near Barcelona, Spain at the age of 75.” A cybersecurity pioneer and an eccentric millionaire, McAfee became […]
This article was first published in Issue 16 of the print edition of Bitcoin Magazine. Today, John Law is often hailed as one of the greatest financial innovators of all time. What would he say about Bitcoin and other digital currencies? Let's take a look at this enigmatic man to discover how yesterday's financial innovations shed light on our own times. Before there were MIT graduates counting cards in casinos, there was John Law. He was naturally gifted with numbers and loved gambling. It was only natural that we would learn to calculate the odds. Before there were stock markets,....
Julian Lennon, John Lennon’s eldest son, is releasing some of his personal collection’s most precious artifacts of music history to be auctioned as NFTs. John Lennon Memorabilia To Be Auctioned Some of the most sought-after Beatles items available for auction include John Lennon’s coat from the film “Magical Mystery Tour,” his cape from “Help!,” three […]
John McAfee, the founder of the antivirus software company McAfee, was found dead in his cell in Spain, apparently by suicide, just hours after the country’s highest court approved his extradition to the United States, where he was wanted on tax-related criminal charges carrying a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. John McAfee: Crypto […]