David Golumbia, 1963–2023
An obituary for my friend David, remembering how he lived.
Pivot to AI: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
The LLM is for spam.
Crypto collapse: Tether’s new bank Britannia, Binance woes, nobody uses PayPal’s stablecoin, Avi Eisenberg is not getting his phones back
Bitcoin can become a tire fire for real.
CoinDesk retracts stories about sponsors, makes implausible excuses
There are no respectable media outlets in a crypto winter — except us, of course.
Crypto collapse: Tornado Cash arrests, Federal Reserve shuts down Farmington Bank, Prime Trust played Terra-Luna
It woz my lawyers wot done it.
Crypto collapse: Sam Bankman-Fried goes to jail, SEC appeals Ripple ruling, Prime Trust bankrupt, the tangled tale of TrueUSD and Tron
“Where people without jobs ask people without companies for jobs.”
Crypto collapse: The Fed takes on crypto banks, Coinbase earnings call is bad, FTX 2: Ex Harder
Inch the Inchworm, his Ty askew, hitting the sauce after checking his altcoin portfolio.
John Jay Ray sues FTX inner circle for $1 billion, prosecutors want Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail revoked
“I get a sense that they are [cowboy emoji] over there.”
Stalking a charity: Why the FBI raided Kraken founder Jesse Powell’s home
Powell assures us that he respects “vaxxed people, some of whom are statists with compromised immune systems.”