Telegram is quietly rolling out what Facebook tried to do with Libra/Diem, except more centralized

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Someone bring an orb to Jeff Roberts

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'At this point, it’s not whether there will be proof of personhood—the question is, will it be open source, decentralized, and privacy preserving?” tiago sada, told me. Worldcoin (think Sam Altman's orbs) launches its own blockchain 👁️
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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!

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TIL Binance.US is still pushing for a comeback

SCOOP: A TikTok data scientist says he was assigned a Seattle-based manager on paper, while actually reporting to a Beijing-based ByteDance executive, who ordered him to regularly email U.S. data in spreadsheets to ByteDance workers in China during 2022. fortune.com/2024/04/15/tik…

The SEC opened an investigation into the NFT unicorn Dapper Labs but closed it last September.

The firm told Ben Weiss it had never been contacted by the SEC and was unaware of the investigation:

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I kicked off Paris Blockchain Week yesterday moderating a fireside with Binance CEO Richard Teng.

We talked about Nigeria, the global HQ, the DOJ monitor, and Binance's surprising reliance

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UBI for writers: Everyone gets commissioned for a longform article about going on a cruise once in their career

It has come to my attention that I'm not getting invited to pretentious media parties