Warren’s Reactionary Crypto Policy vs. Dorsey’s Decentralized Social Media Gambit
Policy actions that decry decentralization in response to FTX sort of miss The Point.
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Dec 18, 2022 at 3:50 p.m. UTC
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Jack Dorsey Gives Decentralized Social Network Nostr 14 BTC in Funding
The former Twitter CEO has donated roughly 14 BTC worth $245,000 to fund Nostr's development, after recently publishing his views on a native internet protocol for social medi...
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Dec 15, 2022 at 10:02 p.m. UTC
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Goldman Sachs Is Trying to Make Blockchain Bonds Happen
But it probably won't – for blockchain bonds, tomatoes or whatever.
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Dec 11, 2022 at 3:50 p.m. UTC
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Jack Dorsey-Backed East African Bitcoin Miner Gridless Raises $2M
Dorsey’s Block and bitcoin venture-capital firm Stillmark co-led a seed funding round.
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Dec 6, 2022 at 7:45 a.m. UTC
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A European Central Bank Blog Decries the End of Bitcoin, and We Aren’t Buying It
Plus: What happens when you go from bitcoin-only to … not?
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Dec 4, 2022 at 3:50 p.m. UTC
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Some Things to Be Thankful For, Even Though Everything in Crypto Is On Fire
This has been an overall bad year for crypto, but here are some positive things.
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Nov 27, 2022 at 3:45 p.m. UTC
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Crypto Markets Are Suffering – but Is It Really ‘Contagion’?
Sure, this crypto credit contagion is bad, but it’s unlikely to spread to other markets.
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Nov 20, 2022 at 3:45 p.m. UTC
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Crypto Lender BlockFi Updates Users on Platform, FTX Exposure
The company denied rumors that a majority of its assets are custodied at collapsed crypto exchange FTX.
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Nov 14, 2022 at 9:31 p.m. UTC
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All Custodial Crypto Exchanges Should Adopt Proof-of-Reserve Programs, but Even That Isn’t Enough
After last week’s FTX debacle, customers who don’t wish to take custody into their own hands should demand far better from their service providers.
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Nov 13, 2022 at 3:45 p.m. UTC
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Bitcoin (Magic Internet Money!) Again Proves Less Volatile Than Stocks
The Federal Reserve stirred up markets last week, but bitcoin was less reactive than plain old stocks.
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Nov 6, 2022 at 2:45 p.m. UTC
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