[Cryptography] actual journalism, was LRB article, Satoshi's Trump Card

[John Levine]

In article <CAD2Ti29bVn7E3Y=J_uO3jDLdowQVL0Ak1gWVcrj1v-PyLWAm=Q at mail.gmail.com> you write:
>>>> https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-ohagan/the-satoshi-affair
>>>
>>>"The full text of this essay is only available to subscribers of the
>>>London Review of Books."
>>>
>>>Needs liberated by punks using the schwartz...

>> Well, you know, you could subscribe and read it it like civilized
>> people do so the author gets paid.
>
>Perhaps if the author, who appears to have some knowledge
>of and interest in cryptocurrencies and cypherpunks, would post
>their own BTC address on their page...

>Then maybe some combination of them could earn some crypto coin.

Having looked at the articles the author wrote before and after the
pair he wrote last year on the Craig Wright affair, I think I can say
with fair assurance that he has better things to do than to screw
around with cyber funny money.  If you want to read stuff in the LRB,
which is quite a good magazine, you send them real money, US$ 50,
C$70, or if you live in the UK, a special promo of £12 and they send
you a year of the paper magazine and online access.  They take credit
cards and UK bank transfers.  If you don't think it's worth that much,
or you have theoretical issues with paying for stuff with real money,
that's fine, don't pay and don't complain that you can't read it.

Speaking of actual journalism, online magazine Slate has a weekly
Slate Money podcast which is quite good because host Felix Salmon when
he's not making dorky jokes has an excellent grasp of finance and
economics.  Last week's edition had an interesting segment on Initial
Coin Offerings.  It starts at about 31:14 in the podcast.  

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/slate_money/2017/06/uber_amazon_buying_whole_foods_and_initial_coin_offerings_on_slate_money.html

They conclude (I think correctly) that most ICOs are scams even if
their proponents don't think they are, and they note that for most
alt-coins the only practical way to buy them is to use bitcoin as an
intermediary.

It also has a link to this blog entry by Emin Gün Sirer about why
Bancor is bogus as is anything layered on top of it:

http://hackingdistributed.com/2017/06/19/bancor-is-flawed/

R's,
John