Monthly Archives: May 2019

October 1, 2018, marked five years since I was imprisoned. My physical surroundings today are ironically similar to what they were after my arrest back in 2013. I’m in the SHU again (Special Housing Unit, aka “the hole”). It means permanent lockdown, separated from the general prison population, in a small cell. There is a…

Industry regulators are finally catching up with blockchain companies that have dubiously defined their tokens as "utilities" (therefore avoiding the strict issuing and management requirements of "securities"). The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has publicly brought a number of enforcement actions against over 20 such companies and individuals, which is encouraging the rest of the…

In the latest development over its security breach, cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia has filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S. The New Zealand-based exchange, which has been dealing with the fallout of a January 2019 hack, went into liquidation and stopped all trading earlier this month. Cryptopia's assigned liquidator, Grant Thornton, then petitioned the Southern District…

Lightning Network app Tippin.me has released a version 1.0 update, which includes a host of new features and promotional measures intended to increase the user base and improve the user experience. Originally launched in December 2018, Tippin was introduced as a novel way to use the Lightning Network to make micropayments easily accessible for a…