Mr. Crypto Market Never Liked Bitcoin SV (BSV)

One would think that the beating that Bitcoin SV (BSV) has taken the last few days was due solely to a crypto community collective hatred of Craig Wright. One would be wrong. A price comparison between Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and BSV since the fork of Nov. 15 reveals a deeper problem that BSV has. The… Read more

What Fidelities Stealth Cryptocurrency Launch Can Tell Us About the State of the Crypto Market

Fidelity is one of the largest asset management companies in the world, with 2.46 trillion dollars of assets under management, and to the cryptocurrency world, it is one of the strongest institutional supporters. Fidelity began mining Bitcoin before it was cool, with operations that began in 2015. Not many financial companies were truly interested in… Read more

OneCoin: A $4 Billion ICO That Ended up Being A Ponzi Scheme, Never Had a Functioning Cryptocurrency or Blockchain, Leader Arrested But Founder Still on the Run

The War On Shitcoins Episode 14: OneCoin. The war on shitcoins is a Crypto.IQ series that targets and shoots down cryptocurrencies that are not worth investing in either due to their being scams, having serious design flaws, being centralized, or in general just being worthless copies of other cryptocurrencies. There are thousands of shitcoins that… Read more

The Charge of the Lite Brigade: Riffing on Alfred Lord Tennyson

(This story first appeared in the February 2019 edition of Crypto.IQ’s newsletter “Proof of Brain”) 2019 feels decidedly more optimistic than 2018 for the crypto markets so far. But analysts are looking for confirmation of the bottom so that we can charge forward with confidence. Unfortunately, that’s something we can only know for sure with… Read more

Verge (XVG) Has Lost 94 Percent of Its Value After Three Time Warp Attacks and a 51 Percent Attack in 2018, Now Mining Code Is Malfunctioning and Developers May Fork to Proof of Stake (PoS)

The War On Shitcoins Episode 13: Verge (XVG). The war on shitcoins is a Crypto.IQ series that targets and shoots down cryptocurrencies that are not worth investing in either due to their being scams, having serious design flaws, being centralized, or in general just being worthless copies of other cryptocurrencies. There are thousands of shitcoins… Read more

In National First, Florida Appoints Director of Blockchain and Legislative Affairs

Florida just made national history by creating the first director of blockchain and legislative affairs in the country. The position has been created by the Seminole County Tax Collector’s Office. “The Director’s overall goal will be to advocate for government adoption of Blockchain technology and assist in providing public policy solutions and to achieve legislative… Read more

Atonomi (ATMI) Has Lost 99 Percent of Its Value Since ICO, Pulled a Bait and Switch on Investors and Diverted All ICO Funds to Centri, Simultaneously Centri Fired the Entire Atonomi Team

The War On Shitcoins Episode 12: Atonomi (ATMI). The war on shitcoins is a Crypto.IQ series that targets and shoots down cryptocurrencies that are not worth investing in either due to their being scams, having serious design flaws, being centralized, or in general just being worthless copies of other cryptocurrencies. There are thousands of shitcoins… Read more

Bitcoiin (B2G): an ERC-20 Token That Claims to Be Superior to Bitcoin (BTC) but Has No Redeeming Qualities, Raised $75 Million in ICO and Lost 94 Percent of Its Value

The War On Shitcoins Episode 11: Bitcoiin (B2G). The war on shitcoins is a Crypto.IQ series that targets and shoots down cryptocurrencies that are not worth investing in either due to their being scams, having serious design flaws, being centralized, or in general just being worthless copies of other cryptocurrencies. There are thousands of shitcoins… Read more

Reality Shares Blockforce Global Currency Strategy ETF Wants to Be the First Bitcoin (BTC) Related ETF, but it Uses Bitcoin Futures on CME and CBOE Instead of Actual Bitcoins and 75 Percent of the ETF Is Fiat Currencies

Every single Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) proposal in the United States has been either rejected by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or delayed into oblivion. Most notably, the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin ETF, which was to be backed by actual Bitcoins (BTC) got the cold shoulder from the SEC. Now Reality Shares has proposed… Read more

The Laws That Govern Bitcoin Part 1 — Moore’s Law

As Bitcoin enthusiasts and investors, we can’t let Bitcoin run unbridled across the financial landscape without trying to define it every chance we get. Luckily, there are a variety of eponymous laws, principles, effects, and maybe a razor or two that seem to govern how Bitcoin grows, changes, and interacts with we humans. These laws… Read more