Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI
The same grift by the same grifters.
Tag: vitalik buterin
News: blockchain MEP Eva Kaili corruption arrest, Nigerian CBDC rewrite, BBC blockchain misadventures
RMS Titanic NFTs: You wouldn’t download a corpse.
Ineffective altruism — FTX and the future robot apocalypse
“Doing bad to do good” surely won’t become just an excuse to do the bad thing for money.
Vitalik Buterin’s philosophical essays: they’re not good
Smart people need the ghost of Socrates to follow them around as a Memento Stultus. “Remember: you too are a dumbass.”
US sanctions Tornado Cash — and crypto shrieks in horror
The fundamental fallacy of cryptocurrency: that you can code your way around the rules of society.
NFT news: Salesforce NFTs, Latvian NFT money laundering, gamers still hate NFTs
There can’t ever have been any such thing as Second Life, or all this Metaverse hype would just be stupid.
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!
News: Facebook’s Zuck Bucks; Worldcoin wants your eyeballs; Bitcoin miners still can’t sell their coins; NFT gaming fails
“please note how they’ve taken the actual melbourne course design and just … pasted it onto the sydney image. so half the track is underwater.”
If you want a scalable Ethereum blockchain, then P=NP
Ethereum makes more sense if you first assume it never mattered if the fancy promises ever worked out.
News: Purse.io shuts down, Chinese CBDC test, new Libra member Heifer, North Korea does not dump its bitcoins
Zack Voell from CoinDesk fights the good fight to destroy the crypto markets, and do Buttcoin — and North Korea — proud.