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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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I migrated Citation Needed from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. Here is exactly how I did that.
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Citation Needed is no longer hosted on Substack. Welcome to my antifascist bar.
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A collective letter to Substack leadership.
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Silicon Valley's "effective altruism" and "effective accelerationism" only give a thin philosophical veneer to the industry's same old impulses.
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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.
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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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Jurors spent less than five hours deliberating before returning the verdict.
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Bankman-Fried comes off as sullen and cagey in his cross-examination in front of the jury.
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Taking the stand before the jury for the first time, Sam Bankman-Fried recounts familiar events we've heard described by previous witnesses, but gives a very different version of those stories.
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After a few other brief witnesses, it was time for the main event — or, at least, a preview of it.
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If you're dying to hear about today's events at the FTX trial, here's a livestream to hold you over until I can write!
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I'm taking this show on the road to hear Sam Bankman-Fried testify in person.
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Is the defense team doing as poorly as it looks, or do they have a trick up their sleeves?
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Sam Bankman-Fried's direct messages to a journalist about "unethical shit" were admitted as evidence, much to the dismay of his legal team.
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The defense team finally scores a few points, and cell phone records reveal Bankman-Fried's extensive influence tour in Manhattan.