“A bitcoin full node is a certainty machine. When a user runs a full node, they are granted a level of certainty about a monetary network that no human had prior to bitcoin’s existence. Every other monetary technology is riddled with uncertainties. Bitcoin fixes this.” – Micheal Goldstein Bitstein is back with another banger of…
Read MoreOn the nature of sovereignty, the challenges of the world we live in, the fog of war that has descended upon our lives, and on the tools and systems we need (and are building) in order to ensure we will find ourselves in a future of sovereign individuals. Opting Out with Matt Hill is a…
Read More“As the Web became much more complex, we now engage with multiple companies for each of those functions. Including all the writing, editing, commenting, revising, and so on, even a simple post like this one will involve the services of a few ISPs, a few email providers, a few cloud storage platforms, a few cloud…
Read More“The primary work undertaken by thieves to maintain their systems of thievery is manipulation. Deceit and lies are the tools of the trade for the thief. And there is no grander system of theft than the debt based monetary system of the US dollar, enforced under deadly monopoly powers and perverse amounts of public manipulation.”…
Read More“They used to own everything, and in a way they still do; the media, the banks, the NGOs, the international organizations, and almost all the governments and corporations in the world. And with that, of course, they also own the armies, the loans, the money supply, the credit ratings, the narrative, the propaganda, the factories,…
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“These two jobs are almost always in tension. Any added protection to keep a bad actor out adds a risk that it may also trip up the owner, and any new backup or alternative way to access creates a new potential security hole.” – @max_guise Today we dive into a practical piece on how to…
Read More“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…
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“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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