Former OpenSea executive Nate Chastain arrested for insider trading of NFTs
Rule 13: If you’re going to insider trade, don’t do it on a permanent public ledger of all transactions.
Author: David Gerard
News: Québec pension fund invested in Celsius, Terra’s tax troubles, Anchor pass-through Ponzis, Wright v. McCormack trial
And the central bank that sent its hacker dick pics.
Early history of NFTs, part 2: Monegraph, Spells of Genesis, Rare Pepes
Part two of the early history of NFTs, from the book I’m writing with Amy Castor, is up now, over on Amy’s blog.
I filmed for 60 Minutes Australia for this Sunday evening
Tell everyone you know in Australia to be watching Nine at 8:30pm on Sunday!
Tortoise Media: Making sense of Web3 with Luke Gbedemah — with Stephen Diehl, Geoffrey Huntley and David Gerard
The levels are all over the place, so get ready to adjust the volume on the fly. But our content was excellent, and it’s worth the effort. It runs a bit over an hour.
The prehistory of NFTs
This is a draft of part one of the history chapter for our planned NFT book. Corrections and nitpicking are most welcomed!
Your guide to the crypto crash — Terra UST, Bitcoin and El Salvador
Is this THE END OF CRYPTO?? We should be so lucky.
News: UST fallout, Central African Republic fallout, Coinbase Custody not safe in bankruptcy, Catalonia and Russian bitcoins
History always repeats, but only the dumb stuff.
Foreign Policy: The Cryptocurrency Crash Is Replaying 2008 as Absurdly as Possible
A version of my UST writeup for an audience that will understand that mentioning “2008” is the air-raid sirens going off.
Terra’s stablecoin does its own 2008 crisis — UST crashes and takes Bitcoin with it
A store of inflation, a hedge against value.