Stablecoin battles / Trade Wars & Safe Havens / Berlin Blockchain Recap
Libra Association on the verge of losing members? That's the report from FT as members get spooked by EU antitrust proceedings. Over in the trade war, Trump ratchets up the rhetoric against China, and...
23 Elo 201917min
Terrorism, Sanctions & Global Opioid Rings: The Return of the Crypto Crime FUD Narrative
What do Palestinian bitcoin brokers, bitcoin rewards via hangover deliveries and a Russian spy scandal have to do with one another? It's all on today's 3@3. First, we look at the return of the crypto ...
22 Elo 201921min
EU antitrust action on Libra / SEC dings ICO rating sites / CEOs vs. China on Hong Kong
Well that didn't take long. The European Union has already started looking into antitrust action on Facebook around Libra. In other regulatory news, US Sec of State Mike Pompeo says crypto should be r...
21 Elo 201919min
Dovey Wan on Binance's Venus / Snowden on surveillance at Web3 / INX $130m IPO / Bitcoin Miniscript
Binance is pursuing a strategy that is a bottoms-up "belt and road" alternative to Facebook's top down global cryptocurrency Libra. VC Dovey Wan explores that strategy, and why their Chinese announcem...
20 Elo 201919min
Narrative Watch: Binance, Venus and the coming battle of CBDCs & non-sovereign fiat
Binance blew open the doors on the global battle for stablecoin supremacy today when they announced Venus - a project that seems to combine some aspects of permissioned corporate chains with central b...
19 Elo 201912min
The 11 Archetypes Of People You Need To Follow On Bitcoin/Crypto Twitter
Bitcoin and Crypto Twitter are wild, weird places. On this special "sorry I'm traveling, can't give you the news" edition of 3@3, I provide a guide to 11 key types of people that you should be followi...
16 Elo 201914min
Ponzi scam selling, Hong Kong protest bank runs & buying creators with internet money
Why number go down? That's all anyone was asking as BTC plunged below $10k, a line that, according to Hodlonaut, we'd never cross again. Was it Ponzi scam selling in China or something less sinister? ...
15 Elo 201917min
The SEC's ICO cleanup / China's convenient surveillance money / Recruiting new blood
What is dead may yet still die. At least, that seems to be the case as the SEC goes one by one through its list of unregistered securities offerings and outright scams. This week it was one unregister...
14 Elo 201914min
