Published: Oct. 6, 2019, 4:23 a.m.
This week the team talks about cryptocurrency news regarding Libra, scams and more.
- (Crypto Exchanges Creating a Token Rating System)
- Coinbase Blog - "Introducing the Crypto Rating Council"
- Create system that rates tokens on how close they are to a security
- "Although the U.S SEC has issued helpful guidance...
- Analysis requires fact-intensive analysis by knowledgeable experts
- Analysis is difficult, expensive, and will lead to judgement calls & disagreements
- So Coinbase brought together industry leaders, securities law experts to create
- "a scalable, points-based rating system centered around a set of several dozen, yes / no factual questions."
- Question derived directly from SEC guidance and case law
- They say they focused on "objective, repeatable, fact-driven questions"
- Council Members
- Anchorage
- Part of the Libra association
- Basically a crypto vault were transactions are validated by Quorum
- No usernames/passwords/phonenumbers nothing a hacker could use or get
- "clients whitelist devices held by their employees, who use the Anchorage app to submit transactions. You’d propose selling $10 million worth of Bitcoin or transferring it to someone else as payment, and a minimum of two-thirds of your designated co-workers would need to concur to form a quorum that approves the transfer."
- Also uses behavioral analysis, biometric signals, network signals. Its human AI mix
- Bittrex
- Circle
- Coinbase
- DRW Cumberland
- Genesis
- Grayscale Investments
- Kraken
- Scores range between 1 and 5 (5 being most like a security)
- Expected to change over time, and open to feedback
- Crypto Rating Council
- Bitcoin - 1.0
- Absence of a marketed token sale & marketing efforts
- decentralized development and usage
- Anonymity of the Project Team
- Litecoin, Monero
- Ethereum - 2.0
- Current functionality of the platform
- Absence of investment-like language or marketing
- Decentralized development and usage
- Zcash
- EOS - 3.75
- Absence of investment-like language or marketing
- Current functionality of the platform
- Raised funds in excess of what would reasonably be necessary for development of the platform
- Decentraland, Hedera Hashgraph, Loom Network, Stellar, Tezos
- XRP - 4.0
- Usage of securities-like language
- Sale of tokens or token interests prior to the existence of token utility
- Marketing of the token suggesting an opportunity to earn profits
- Decentralized development and usage
- CEO of Ripple has said its pretty clear XRP is not a security
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- (Libra Update, Thing Looking....Not Great)
- We know there's been tons of official opposition
- WSJ Report Tuesday that
- Visa, Mastercard, and “other financial partners that signed on to help build and maintain the Libra payments network” are now reconsidering whether they should remain involved.
- Apparently FB been asking them to help and show support, and they are declining
- "Their reluctance has Facebook scrambling to keep Libra on track."
- Prior August reporting said Libra partners were wary that pushing Libra would "attract broader regulatory scrutiny of their activities"
- Lo and behold, DOJ requested Visa, Mastercard, Stripe & PayPal to provide a "complete overview of their money-laundering compliance programs and how Libra will fit into them.”
- Here's the rub
- None of the 28 association members have committed beyond nonbinding letters
- The $10 million that FB asked for each member for development? No one has paid it
- Multiple flanks
- FB facing heat from DOJ opening an antitrust investgation. Also the FTC and multiple states, like multiple
- Led by NY AG, but Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nebraska, NC, Ohio, Tennessee, and DC involved
- Federal investigation getting cooperation from Snapchat
- Legal team for years kept a dossier of "ways that the company felt FB was trying to thwart competition"
- The tile of the documents....Project Voldemort
- Allege things like Instagram effectively barred users from linking to their Snapchat profiles in their bios.
- Also that Snapchat content was prevented from trending on the platform
- Supressed search results of snap-related searches
- But apparently FTC has contacted "dozens of tech executives and app developers”
- Investigators also looking into Onavo
- VPN FB bought in 2013
- Later pressured into shutting it down amid reports it was sucking up lots of data about user app usage
- Its apparently this data that clued them in on WhatsApp posing a potential threat, and pushing them to buy it
- They were also using Onavo to monitor how people used Snapchat, how many snaps a day they sent
THAT'S A SCAM
- Fair Win Story
- What is fair win? Well shit I might as well let them tell you word for word - Blockchain + gambling, blockchain + game, establish industry standard interface, 70% income anti-subsidy investor players.
- So this is being listed as a $150M Ponzi Scheme. Posted about on medium by Philippe Castonguay
- First red flag - the team consisted of a famous piano player (Dang Thai Son) and an instagram influencer's (Jessica Vu) pictures.
- Dude found typos and bugs all over the contract.
- He also found that the contract had been drained for 2600 ETH once on 7/27 with an old exploit.
- He then finds an exploit where you can essentially swap out an invite code and steal ETH from depositors to the contract.
- They got a group together to decide what to do and exposed the scam last week.
- And of course as soon as they announced the problem, team drained the accounts.