Crypto recaps
Issue 50 – Bitcoin busts
Governments seize huge quantities of bitcoin, and a few people seem to be yearning for the days of peak crypto mania.
Molly White
Molly White is a researcher, software engineer, and prominent critic of cryptocurrencies and blockchain-based projects.
Crypto recaps
Issue 49 – And so the Lord says "give them a 10x"
Bitcoin ETP approval, God-sent crypto scammers, and more trouble in Justin Sun's world.
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Video: The charges against Binance
In December, not long after the Department of Justice announced charges against cryptocurrency giant Binance and its CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, I started writing up an overview of everything that had happened to the company over the past few years. I'd written separately about a lot
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Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the details
I migrated Citation Needed from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. Here is exactly how I did that.
Crypto recaps
Issue 48 – Bitcoin has "no chance" of going to the moon
Bitcoin ETF fakeouts, imaginary CEOs, and a bridge hack make for an eventful start to the new year.
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Citation Needed has a new home
Citation Needed is no longer hosted on Substack. Welcome to my antifascist bar.
Crypto recaps
Issue 47 – Residual garbage
All my "absolute top tier apes" gone, anti-rug-pull rug pulls, and an update on this newsletter.
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Substackers Against Nazis
A collective letter to Substack leadership.
Crypto recaps
Issue 46 – Checkmate, crypto
Cheating chess-players, cursed mansions, and more defi centralization.
Crypto recaps
Issue 45 – I'm the director now
Rising bitcoin prices bring echoes of the crypto mania from years past, and an ambitious hacker decides to manifest a new job for themselves.
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Effective obfuscation
Silicon Valley's "effective altruism" and "effective accelerationism" only give a thin philosophical veneer to the industry's same old impulses.
Crypto recaps
Issue 44 – Four
The Justice Department's interest in Binance isn't just "FUD" anymore.
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The stones left unturned in the Sam Bankman-Fried trial
From billions of mysterious Tethers to the apparent identity theft of Thai sex workers, many questions remain about what happened at Bankman-Fried's crypto empire.
Crypto recaps
Issue 43 – Laser eyes
Two crypto firms emerge from bankruptcy, and a Bored Ape party turns out even worse than it sounds.
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New York Times: Crypto's fragile foundations
My article in the New York Times describes the common practice throughout the cryptocurrency industry that can lead to death spirals like the one at FTX.
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Sam Bankman-Fried: guilty on all charges
Jurors spent less than five hours deliberating before returning the verdict.