Each week ~175 long dormant Bitcoin wallets wake up

Here's a closer look at these 1.8M 'lost' Bitcoins w/new data from Chainalysis
fortune.com/crypto/2024/04…

Irony alert: 'TechFreedom' is complaining about non-compete ban

Non-competes are the antithesis of freedom. They are a form of indentured servitude

How times change. Coinbase 🛡️ was vilified for its 'leave your politics at home' policy

Now Google has adopted 'mission first' too!

fortune.com/crypto/2024/04…

Left wing media echo chamber still going strong

venture capital

I made a list of who at Coinbase 🛡️ has the most pull: Choi, Haas, Grewal are at the top

Only one crypto native (aside from Armstrong) made the cut—shows how corporate Coinbase has become!

fortune.com/crypto/2024/04…

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Have you heard of Bittensor? It's a decentralized AI project built on Bitcoin-style mining incentives and has raised hundreds of millions

Main backers include DCG and crypto OG Olaf Carlson-Wee. Leo Schwartz with the lowdown

fortune.com/crypto/2024/04…

Tsk. More money laundering and shady behavior by the usual suspects
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🚨 SEC prepares to sue Uniswap Labs 🦄. This is a major escalation in Gensler's campaign against crypto.

Case will be critical to the future of DeFi. Hard to predict outcome but Uniswap has some good law on its side

fortune.com/2024/04/10/sec…

So NPR has NOT lurched far to the left in recent years?!? Could of fooled me

'Instead of pride and celebration, the Netflix series has been met with anger, sneer and suspicion in China. .... They don’t take pride where it’s due and take offense too easily.'

nytimes.com/2024/04/08/bus…

Yikes. Hackers have planted fake NFT promos—that are really drainers—on over 2000 WordPress sites
bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…

Bold take by Silver: Justice Sotomayor must retire

He's right. RBG destroyed her formidable legacy by clinging to power until it was too late

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I wrote about a silly WSJ trend piece that says millennials are snapping up Costco gold bars.

The trend is BS of course. But it does raise the interesting question:

If banks fail and things go to hell, are you stocking up on gold ... or Bitcoin?
fortune.com/crypto/2024/04…

This 'code is law' defense is fascinating and might just work.

Defendant's 'crime' was like exploiting a casino's warped roulette wheel. It's dishonest but is it theft?

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Semi-nude sushi models are 'raising new questions about the culture of the industry.'

Not a great look for Copper—but also feels like more pearl-clutching by the crypto-hating FT
ft.com/content/eba0ea…

Big move here by Robinhood .

A year ago, the company looked like road kill—now it's competing with Amex and Chase Sapphire Reserve

fortune.com/2024/03/26/rob…

David Sacks is underwritten by Putin to a degree that is mind boggling. The very definition of 'tough behind the keyboard'.

🚨Scoop: SEC expands push to make Ethereum a security

Subpoenas sent to 3 well-known crypto companies asking for docs/records about the Ethereum Foundation

Agency is using Merge as a pretext to reclassify. w/Leo Schwartz

fortune.com/crypto/2024/03…