I'm always wary of conspiracy theories, for various reasons. But in Epstein case, default assumption has to be it was a hit. US can keep Guantanamo prisoners from killing themselves for decades, but an NYC correctional facility's suicide watch fails after less than a month!
Aligning Trump, Warren, Hannity & Musk against it, Bitcoin's ideologically diverse community has put an overdue end to the tired, 20th century idea of a socialist/left v conservative/right dichotomy, replacing it with a new divide: centralized/incumbent v decentralized/disruptor
It saddens me that my ex-employer @WSJ, which I hold in the highest esteem, and that former colleagues I similarly, fondly respect, have, frankly, botched this.
It's not just that the original was wrong. That's the easy bit. It's the refusal to correct.
Guys. Do the right thing
The @WSJ published a misleading article about crypto being used by Hamas. Its claims about $ are provably false.
This is exactly what blockchains are good for - provable, verifiable, public ledgers that anyone can use.
I asked @WSJ to meet its own stds:
tinyurl.com/yckrsxjb
COVID-19 was a stress test of our Web 2.0 system for societal truth discovery.
Conclusion: it's a dysfunctional mess that's undermining trust and making it harder for the best ideas to win.
We MUST redesign that system.
cc @balajis
I have no opinion on the Lab Leak theory. No "priors" to update. Nothing. But the fact that Facebook has changed its stance on discussion of Covid's origin seems like a sign that that the whole combatting misinformation industry is really broken. google.com/amp/s/www.poli…
The SEC might seem like a power unto itself but there are other nodes of US power looking to curtail it. This week's lawsuits v @binance & @coinbase lay up a battle with those other branches. This could get bloody.
This week's #MoneyReimagined column:
coindesk.com/consensus-maga…
Of all my tasks in this job, this has to be the best!
On behalf of all @CoinDesk, I’m thrilled to share that @IanAllison123 and @0x_tracy are joint recipients of a highly prestigious @PolkAwards prize for three scoops that led to FTX’s unraveling. 1/23
Today's the day. #TheTruthMachine, sequel to The Age of Cryptocurrency, is finally on sale. You can buy it "anywhere good books or sold." But let's face it, it's probably easiest to slip Jeff Bezos a few cents and pick it up here: amazon.com/Truth-Machine-…@paulvigna
