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The Week In Bitcoin - Issue #110: FINMA Releases Guidance On ICOs, Tulips Mania, JP Morgan Tells Us About Bitcoin & More

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The Week In Bitcoin - Issue #110: FINMA Releases Guidance On ICOs, Tulips Mania, JP Morgan Tells Us About Bitcoin & More
By Alan Tsen • Issue #110 • View online
This week the Swiss financial markets regulator releases some guidance on ICOs (TBH, I’m still working my way through it) and it looks interesting. 
I’ve also included a great story about tulip mania and what people get wrong about it.
Also, JP Morgan writes a paper on bitcoin. Check it out for the data and visualisations.
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News This Week
In guidelines published today, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA sets out how it intends to apply financial market legislation in handling enquiries from ICO organisers. The guidelines also define the information FINMA requires to deal with such enquiries and the principles upon which it will base its responses, creating clarity for market participants.
www.finma.ch  •  Share
Bitcoin is being compared to tulips, but I researched tulip mania for years and found no evidence of mass bankruptcies or economic meltdown.
theconversation.com  •  Share
We have officially gone from “Bitcoin is a fraud” to “cryptocurrencies could potentially have a role in diversifying one’s global bond and equity portfolio”…
www.zerohedge.com  •  Share
For ethereum 2018 is the year of infrastructure. This is the year when early adoption will test the limits of the network, renewing focus on technologies built to scale ethereum. Ethereum is still in…
medium.com  •  Share
That thing about “Y no real blockchain use cases yet tho?” popping up again. A blockchain is an accounting database that sits between accounting entities. Let me walk through this quickly. An…
medium.com  •  Share
Much has been written by passionate critics on Tether, the supposed 1–1 USD-backed token issued by Tether Limited. Some see it as today’s version of Willy, the Mt Gox trading bot that manipulated…
hackernoon.com  •  Share
Two long term “big prizes” in the cryptocurrency world are (i) the primary store of value token and (ii) a payments token. Programable money has the potential of a multi-trillion dollar market cap, unlike most every other crypto market or use case[1]. The top contender to date for digital value store is bitcoin.
blog.eladgil.com  •  Share
It was my pleasure to once again attend the Satoshi Roundtable; this year it was scaled up immensely and I didn’t even have a chance to talk to all of the attendees. We also had a ton of breakout…
medium.com  •  Share
The Silk Road might have started as a libertarian experiment, but it was doomed to end as a fiefdom run by pirate kings
aeon.co  •  Share
A guide to building your own Blockstream Satellite Bitcoin node.
hackernoon.com  •  Share
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