The Binance CEO's sentencing draws near, and prosecutors have been busy chasing down other crypto criminals. Also, lawmakers take another stab at stablecoin regulation. | Continue reading
AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a "kind of useful" tool justifies the harm. | Continue reading
The bitcoin "halving" looms, and that may not be as good news as coiners hope. Also, Terra committed fraud and Uniswap got a Wells notice. | Continue reading
An interview with Ryder Ripps, a defendant in the Yuga Labs v. Ripps case about Bored Ape Yacht Club trademark infringement and racism. | Continue reading
Crypto-related litigation is in full swing, as the Terra civil fraud trial has kicked off and two other cases against crypto companies have survived motions to dismiss. | Continue reading
"The judgment has to adequately reflect the seriousness of the crime, and this was a very serious crime." | Continue reading
Sam Bankman-Fried maintains that his crimes were victimless and resulted in zero losses, and therefore warrant only six years of imprisonment. Prosecutors argue that 40–50 years are justified. | Continue reading
Euphoria has risen along with crypto prices, but nothing has changed from the last bubble. | Continue reading
Bitcoin prices are spiking. Are we in for another round of crypto mania? Also, Sam Bankman-Fried doesn't want to go to jail for 100 years. | Continue reading
What will we do if Wikipedia falls to the type of AI-generated garbage that seems to be proliferating on the web? The number one thing you can do is learn to edit, and I will walk you through how to get started in only 30 minutes. | Continue reading
It's been a quiet few weeks in the world of crypto disasters... too quiet. | Continue reading
"Ownership" means ten different things to ten different people. Let's talk about what we actually want. | Continue reading
Prominent crypto venture capitalist Chris Dixon provides an unconvincing bible for blockchain solutionists. | Continue reading
Governments seize huge quantities of bitcoin, and a few people seem to be yearning for the days of peak crypto mania. | Continue reading
Bitcoin ETP approval, God-sent crypto scammers, and more trouble in Justin Sun's world. | Continue reading
In December, not long after the Department of Justice announced charges against cryptocurrency giant Binance and its CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, I started writing up an overview of everything that had happened to the company over the past few years. I'd written separately about a lo … | Continue reading
not for the faint-hearted or non-technical, but gives her far more control than any other platform # | Continue reading
I migrated Citation Needed from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. Here is exactly how I did that. | Continue reading
Bitcoin ETF fakeouts, imaginary CEOs, and a bridge hack make for an eventful start to the new year. | Continue reading
Citation Needed is no longer hosted on Substack. Welcome to my antifascist bar. | Continue reading
All my "absolute top tier apes" gone, anti-rug-pull rug pulls, and an update on this newsletter. | Continue reading
A collective letter to Substack leadership. | Continue reading
Cheating chess-players, cursed mansions, and more defi centralization. | Continue reading
Rising bitcoin prices bring echoes of the crypto mania from years past, and an ambitious hacker decides to manifest a new job for themselves. | Continue reading
Silicon Valley's "effective altruism" and "effective accelerationism" only give a thin philosophical veneer to the industry's same old impulses. | Continue reading
The Justice Department's interest in Binance isn't just "FUD" anymore. | Continue reading
From billions of mysterious Tethers to the apparent identity theft of Thai sex workers, many questions remain about what happened at Bankman-Fried's crypto empire. | Continue reading
Two crypto firms emerge from bankruptcy, and a Bored Ape party turns out even worse than it sounds. | Continue reading