Interview with me on AmericanScream’s IORadio podcast
We go through my general background and how I wrote Attack, but also a pile of stuff about current events in crypto.
Author: David Gerard
Tether and sanctions: what’s coming for Paolo’s beautiful launderette
Tether is Liberty Reserve but on the blockchain.
Jack Dorsey, Bluesky, decentralised social networks and the very common crowd
“I could easily get him to pay me $125,000 for a jug of something called Diarrhea Water in the understanding that it would ‘detoxify his beard.'”
Robinhood Crypto receives an SEC Wells notice for securities violations
Gazing into the orbital laser cannon of regulatory clarity.
Coinbase Q1 2024 earnings: number go up, with a bit of juicing
Numbers go up! When you change how you count them.
Regulatory clarity: Roger Ver tax charges, CZ sentenced, Avi Eisenberg convicted and charged again, crypto mixers go down
The precise thing you would expect from a rich and successful libertarian who suddenly decides he knows more about tax laws than his own lawyers.
Consensys gets a Wells notice over MetaMask Swaps and Staking
The expensive lawyers who wrote this complaint seem only to have been able to find the crayons that day.
Christopher Harborne defamation suit: WSJ motion to dismiss, Bitfinex/Tether, Bank of America, Sackville Bank
“Plaintiff has not pled facts from which it is reasonably conceivable that the statement is not substantially true.”
Crypto is going sideways: Avi Eisenberg trial begins, Uniswap gets a Wells notice, Bitfinex Securities in El Salvador
What are you gonna do, convict me?
Pivot to AI: Hallucinations worsen as the money runs out
Remember when AI had proper hallucinations? Eyeballs! Spurious dogs!