Archive - Once a Bitcoin Miner: Epilogue

This newsletter is now defunct; go to ethanlou.substack.com

We have moved. Existing subscribers have been moved to the new subdomain.

Sep 26, 2021 •

July 2021

And we're back: New column in Financial Post, new project to come

Oh, hi there. It's been a while. I have a new column in the Financial Post now.

Jul 21, 2021 •

April 2021

Toronto Star's Saturday Debate: Should mainstream businesses use cryptocurrencies?

I wrote in the Toronto Star on Saturday, taking the Yes side. Also, an update on my book, to be released in the fall.

Apr 25, 2021 •

February 2021

Coinye: The Kanye West cryptocurrency that never was

Coinye is very much like the Dogecoin that has been making all the news lately, a funny cryptocurrency project made as a joke. The musician Kanye West…

Feb 21, 2021 •

November 2020

How the pandemic ruined happenstance and serendipity

I wrote in the Literary Review of Canada. It’s an idea I had for "Field Notes from a Pandemic" that never really made it into the book.

Nov 11, 2020 •

October 2020

'Field Notes from a Pandemic' updates: I wrote in the CBC about China, etc.

Essay in CBC, excerpts in the Walrus, Literary Hub; Reddit Ask Me Anything on Oct. 13; CBC's The Current upcoming

Oct 8, 2020 •

September 2020

An announcement from Ethan

We interrupt your regular programming to bring you "Field Notes from a Pandemic"

Sep 27, 2020 •

Battle for Bitmain: Saga at China’s leading mining-machine maker a spotlight on inner turmoil

Bitmain’s plight highlights coming upheaval and reckoning for cryptocurrency mining, a backbone for the wider industry

Sep 20, 2020 •

Much ado over DeFi: The saga of SushiSwap in the cryptocurrency Wild West

DeFi blockchain platforms allow for applications that run without a central administrator and have been popular lately; for many in the cryptocurrency…

Sep 13, 2020 •

Ethereum Classic hit by 51 per cent attack yet again, may face delisting

These attacks often result in the loss of millions of dollars’ worth of coins and demonstrate the weakness in some smaller cryptocurrencies.

Sep 6, 2020 •

August 2020

New documentary, new book — just what is the deal with the Satoshi claimant Wright?

A Canadian gambling mogul who has long backed the Australian computer scientist who claims to have created Bitcoin is funding both a documentary and…

Aug 30, 2020 •

An update and preview of my forthcoming book 'Once a Bitcoin Miner'

You may have heard, somewhere, probably from me, that I have a book coming out.

Aug 23, 2020 •

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