Tag: balaji srinivasan

Vitalik Buterin’s philosophical essays: they’re not good

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Smart people need the ghost of Socrates to follow them around as a Memento Stultus. “Remember: you too are a dumbass.”

News: what’s the Tory crypto story, US stablecoin bill, Facebook’s Libra even deader, the ignominious death of SingularDTV and Breaker

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They’re made out of Meta.

News: Crypto crime statistics, Axie Infinity hack, Kevin Roose debunked, Lightning Network speed, NFT lawsuits

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I shall henceforth be calling Bitcoin mining “extreme bingo.”

News: the EOS ICO was a fake pump, Cardano smart contracts fail, cyclists vs. NextHash, MicroStrategy de-indexed, El Salvador Bitcoin goes live tomorrow

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Wile E. Cardano, supergenius.

El Salvador to adopt proprietary payment network denominated in Bitcoin

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Dictators are good news for Bitcoin, as long as number goes up. The Lightning Network is also involved.

News: stupid DeFi tricks, Tether doesn’t have the documents for NYAG, Craig Wright loses again

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“I’m going to put a lot of money into three card monte. Everyone I watch who plays it wins: it’s a sure bet.”

Balaji Srinivasan’s plan to save journalism

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A venture capitalist on how to save journalism — or save venture capitalists from journalism, in any case.