CeX, Drugs, and a Fond Farewell
John Law recaps the week's news and forecasts the future, in his final column for CoinDesk.
John Law is an 18th century Scottish entrepreneur, financial engineer and gambler. Having reformed the French economy, invented paper currency, state banks, the Mississippi Bubble and other ideas essential to modern economics, he took three hundred years off in a small cottage outside Bude. He has returned to write for CoinDesk on the foibles of digital currency.
John Law recaps the week's news and forecasts the future, in his final column for CoinDesk.
This week John Law glues together broken China, mops up Canada's sticky MintChip mess and proposes new altcoin 'karmacoin'.
This week John Law gives the taxman some ideas, makes micropayments, and gives you bitcoin without the hassle, almost.
John Law remembers a 1930s currency revolution, survives exuberant optimism, and (almost) finds something good about mobile malware mining.
John Law wonders if cryptocurrencies could secure your cash, BLTs could protect your ID and bitcoin is wrongly named.
John Law discusses revolution in regulation, putting competition back into banking and shares his outlandish bitcoin art ideas.
John Law suggests privacy seekers should stay hidden, bitcoin doesn't need Tor and a novel purchase for the Winklenauts.
John Law ponders what could destroy bitcoin, and what a ban would look like, but finds it remarkably hard.
This week, John Law invents insults for Gox clients, finds a DIY ATM and has a rather good idea.