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Read_674 – FTX & Alameda, Through the Looking Glass [NYDIG]

“I will start with the conclusion: my piece failed. Nothing has changed. DeFi-driven blowups have continued. Therefore, in the strongest possible terms, I repeat, with humility: do not invest in non-Bitcoin crypto. Do not invest in non-Bitcoin DeFi. This is why NYDIG is a bitcoin company. Always has been, always will be.” – Ross Stevens

Today we take a short dive down the FTX and Alameda rabbit hole with an article put out from NYDIG and Stone Ridge that prefaces the situation with a call to action for those in the space, and then is followed by a breakdown of the events and what we know so far from Greg Cipolaro. If you are wondering what has been going on in crypto, this is a good place to start.

Check out the mentioned article below written 6 months ago on the risks and potential failures of crypto and Defi with the incredible piece co-authored by Ross Stevens, Nic Carter, & Allen Farrington:
https://nydig.com/on-impossible-things-before-breakfast

Check out the original shareholder letter at the link below:
https://nydig.com/research/through-the-looking-glass-the-ftx-and-alameda-saga

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Read_673 – Crypto is Peak Silicon Valley [Allen Farrington]

“My learned opinion is that although your average toxic Bitcoin maximalist might be able to sniff out this bullshit a mile away, Silicon Valley cannot, because Crypto is peak Silicon Valley, and Silicon Valley has sadly become peak fiat.” – Allen Farrington We bring another great piece by Allen just after our last great piece…

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Read_672 – No, Let’s Not: Perpetrators of Pandemic Authoritarianism Cannot Be Forgiven [Allen Farrington]

“It must become embarrassing to admit one ever supported uninformed and nonconsensual participation in a medical experiment or mass house arrest and coerced isolation.” – Allen Farrington Amnesty for the tyrants who pushed for the destructive policies and gross abuses of power we witnessed over the past few years, is acceptance that these abuses and…

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Chat_74 – Synonymous with Sovereignty, with John Carvalho

Today we bring John Carvalho back on to talk about Bitkit and the release of Synonym’s first major product in the BitKit wallet and Slashtags. Re-Decentralizing the internet with serverless identities, default encryption, and where your Bitcoin seed is the key to your online kingdom. The first lego blocks of a potentially massive ecosystem. Download…

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Read_671 – Greenpeace Attacks Only Galvanize Bitcoiners [Daniel Batten]

“They will come to understand that Bitcoin is hope for non-violent revolutionaries in the environmental movement who seek to end the petrodollar, usher in a world that is not based on the excessive consumption that inflationary (fiat) currencies incentivize, stabilize the intermittency of renewable energy, find a home for new solar and wind on the…

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Read_670 – Capital Misallocation, Bitcoin Fixes this – Part 2 [Steven Lubka]

“The creation of new money by insiders debases the savings ability of the existing money. It is critically important for money to maintain value, as it reflects work which was performed but not redeemed for goods and services. Is the value of your forty hour work week last month suddenly not worth as much because…

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Bitcoin Astronomy, The Third Law – Part 1 [Dhruv Bansal]

“Astrobiologists increasingly believe that conditions are frequently right for life. Hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and the life-sustaining molecules they form are the most common substances in the universe and we know there are millions, potentially billions, of rocky planets just like Earth orbiting stars just like our Sun in our galaxy alone.” – Dhruv Bansal Today we…

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Bitcoin Astronomy, The Third Law – Part 2 [Dhruv Bansal]

“But if technological civilizations are more common, then we must resolve the Fermi Paradox in a different way. We know that any “solution” is really an a reflection in the mirror of universality, an interpretation of humanity’s future based on what one believes about the present. With this understanding, and with many speculations about the Laws of…

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The Nature of Man, Proclaim Your Bitcoin Part 1 [Simply Bitcoin]

“to survive and prosper in this world, man can either make the things he needs and wants, or he can take them. This was true thousands of years ago and it is true today. To use a modern linguistic framing of this notion; man can either perform work to satisfy his wants and needs, or…

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Debunking the ESG Attacks on Bitcoin [Spencer Nichols]

“While Bitcoin does not litigate the ethics of hydrocarbon production, it is not controversial to point out that the dollar, in that it is sustained by the continuation of the US military-industrial complex (the single largest consumer of oil in the world), carries an incomparably greater carbon footprint than the Bitcoin network will ever begin…

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