November 2022: My Web3 Social Earnings As you read this, I am sitting in a classroom with a hundred other authors learning how to turn book writing into a full-time income. And just in time too. My forthcoming book Web3 Social: How Creators Are Changing the World Wide Web will publish soon after the start of the new year. That book tells how other creators can use the Web3 platforms I’m playing on to monetize their content better, take control over their identities and…
SBF Just Can't Stop Talking (But His Lawyers Would Like Him To) Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) doesn’t think he’s criminally liable for the FTX failure that sent the markets into a topsy-turvy two weeks ago, but his lawyers don’t want him speaking publicly. Nevertheless, all to willing to play by his own rules, he’s encouraging crypto investors to put their money in exchanges that don’t operate like FTX. As soon as his big money boat his turbulent waters, he called his Stanford law…
Web3 Wednesday: Ledger's NFT Hardware Wallet Ethereum’s NFT dominance drops to 8.3 percent. 5 Ethereum features Cofounder Vitalik Buterin gets excited about. *Not just an ordinarily listicle, these five features are things anyone should get excited about.* In the future, Ethereum could be banking on DAO-backed stablecoins. https://bitcoinist.com/nft-dominance-ethereum-drops-8-3-interest-stays-low/…
The Ultimate Fallout from the FTX Failure You’ve likely heard by now about the failure of FTX, the world’s second largest crypto exchange, founded by Richie Rich aka Sam Bankman-Fried aka SBF aka self-avowed book skeptic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Rich_(character) https://lithub.com/crypto-nerd-sam-bankman-fried-who-just-lost-16-billion-would-never-read-a-book/ I’m not going to bother you with the details of the so-called collapse and its timeline. After all,…
Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary Calls Himself an Idiot for Investing in FTX Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes says bitcoin has hit bottom. ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood says Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) doesn’t like bitcoin because he can’t control it. A European Central Bank blog post says bitcoin is nearing its end. Robert Kiyosaki says bitcoin holder will get rich when the Fed prints more money. Can bitcoin enrich our interior lives? *The most interesting of these stories, to me, is the…
Web3 Wednesday: Ledger Intros DeFi Tracking on Hardware Wallets If you haven’t seen Twitter Tuesday yet—wherein Sam Bankman-Fried is arrested and the Twitterverse shares its schadenfreude (and I share my poem by that title)—then you’ve got to check this out. Schadenfreude runs wild and free. Click here to collect the NFT. Only 75 will be issued, so get yours before they fly away! https://cryptocracy.substack.com/p/twitter-tuesday-sam-bankman-fried…
How Elon Musk's War Over Twitter Proves Web3 Is Needed Elon Musk has declared war on anyone who doesn’t like him. As you know, in October, Musk purchased Twitter for $44 million after spending months trying to renege on the deal he publicly announced earlier this year. Several celebrities then left Twitter in a huff. https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-owns-twitter-deal/…
Personality Cult in Crypto? Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) has decided to quit fighting extradition. Before his arrest, SBF said he’d testify before Congress from home (in the Bahamas) because he was concerned about the paparazzi. *I’m concerned about the paparazzi too, but I still take my wife to dinner once a week.* 3 ways the FTX disaster will impact crypto going forward. *I expect Nos. 1 and 3 to play out for sure, but I hope that No. 2 doesn’t produce anti-competitive…
Web3 Social: Help Me Launch My Next Book I’m pleased to announce I’m getting closer to launching my book **Web3 Social: How Creators Are Changing the World Wide Web (And You Can Too!)** every day. Instead of my usual Web3 fare today, I’m going to issue an invitation for you to join my book launch team. What is a Book Launch Team? A book launch team is a very important part of a book launch. They are instrumental in helping an author get early momentum in book sales and…
Guess What? You're Likely to Hear a Lot About SBF, FTX in 2023 Good morning, and I hope you had a Merry Christmas. I know I did. But my inbox has been exploding with news about Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) and FTX. A lot has happened since last week. Let’s have a quick review: You already know SBF was arrested in the Bahamas. But it was revealed last week that Caroline Ellison, SBF’s on-and-off girlfriend and CEO of Alameda Research, as well as FTX Cofounder Gary Wang both plead…
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