Card game developer says it paid an 'AI artist' $90,000 to generate card art because 'no one comes close to the quality he delivers'. Can you guess what the "cards" are? In 2024, even (www.pcgamer.com)
Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison (www.web3isgoinggreat.com)
The ‘halvening’ is coming — what this means for bitcoin (amycastor.com)
shocked to hear in 231 pages of detail that Prof Dr Dr Craig Wright might not in fact be Satoshi Nakamoto and instead may be some sort of, dare I say, perjuring fraud (PDF) (d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net)
Crypto collapse: SEC takes on Terraform and Coinbase, ETF fallout continues, Tether is for crime (davidgerard.co.uk)
Tether is ... pivoting to AI?? What the (tether.to)
Bitcoin hits a new all-time high! World reacts: “Wow, that thing’s still around?” (davidgerard.co.uk)
the return of our messiah Roaring Kitty (www.bloomberg.com)
archive archive.ph/g9Y6a
SEC approves bitcoin spot ETFs — what this means for crypto (davidgerard.co.uk)
In response to a post bemoaning racist memecoins, Balaji suggests "proof of slur" to show you're free of the jackboots of the statist oppressors.The Tiananmen Square of the N-word (archive.today)
original tweet: twitter.com/balajis/status/1772370302028366335
so much for Nakamoto Dundee (twitter.com)
The identity trial is over, Judge Mellor has clearly had enough, says the evidence is overwhelming and issues a ruling from the bench that Craig Wright is not Satoshi. Game over.
boy those ETFs were the juice bitcoin really needed eh
https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/7c80ee77-72f5-4888-b9dc-ce4519ec539c.png...
The Lightning Network barely worked and could never solve bitcoin congestion. The proponents are finally giving up trying to push this dumb idea uphill. (protos.com)
Zeke Faux: crypto is still a pile of fraudulent dogshit (www.bloomberg.com)
archive: archive.ph/7U5hT
Reminder that doing something extremely cool and good once doesn't make you immune to posting cringe (x.com)
Edward Snowden [blue checkmark] @snowden...
"Going Infinite": Michael Lewis Takes On Sam Bankman-Fried - If Books Could Kill (www.buzzsprout.com)
As is tradition I am sharing this link without having listened yet.
Hackers steal $112 million of XRP Ripple cryptocurrency (techcrunch.com)
He Emptied an Entire Crypto Exchange Onto a Thumb Drive. Then He Disappeared (www.wired.com)
“Crypto is already a giant video game — and we are here to make it more fun and rewarding.” (medium.com)
The video game in question:...
Man vanishes after allegedly pocketing about $500,000 in cryptocurrency account error (www.abc.net.au)
John Jay Ray at the corpse of FTX is not having any of SBF's shit (storage.courtlistener.com)
As set forth more fully below, Mr. Bankman-Fried contends in his sentencing submission that, based on a mischaracterization of statements made in the Chapter 11 proceedings by representatives of the FTX debtors, the “harm to customers, lenders, and investors is zero,” because “[t]he money was there—not lost,” and that...
Bitconeeect (www.youtube.com)
OK OK old news I know. But this is a metal cover of a bitconnect speech that I found pretty amusing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ-Ayj-ht_I