EXCLUSIVE:
With the publication of my book today, I can finally announce: in the course of writing my book, my sources and I believe we uncovered the identity of the Ethereum's 2016 DAO hacker.
On Unchained, stock-to-flow creator
@100trillionUSD
discusses:
*why he thinks BTC's price floor for Dec. is $135,000
*whether he thinks we're in a “supercycle,” in which there won’t be a massive drawdown before the next halving
*why the S2F model works
To the people tweeting at me “have fun staying poor,” and that I actually do regret not owning Bitcoin for now, I’d like to say: 1) I’m having the time of my life. And I consider myself rich in many, many, many things that other people do not have — just not BTC, for now
I never thought, when I first started covering crypto, that this work would lead me to a black tie gala at a palace in Prague Castle, but there you have it — peak moment in the life of a crypto reporter ♥️
@EricHolthaus
Eric, I’ve been covering
#bitcoin
for almost six years, and based on my reporting, I would say you definitely haven’t figured it out.
Take a listen to my shows — happy to send you some beginner material that might be helpful
Some key quotes from
@HesterPeirce
's 🔥🔥🔥 statement on the approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs (honestly makes me wonder if it's ever awkward in the SEC office 😂):
"Today marks the end of an unnecessary, but consequential, saga."
"For reasons I have explained many times before,…
“Ripple is highly centralized & XRP is more akin to a PayPal account than a trustless system like bitcoin.... It's hard to come up w any rational reason why XRP exists in the Ripple protocol, other than as a means for Ripple to make money. Lots of money.“
@winklevoss
Cameron, I respectfully have to strongly disagree with you here. Fact checking is to help people uncover the truth. Censorship is to cover up the truth.
I almost never post anything personal on Twitter, but today is the 10th anniversary of my being self-employed, and for anyone who needs to hear this, I feel compelled to tell the story of how this leap has led me to more career success than I ever could have imagined 🧚🏻
🌪 .
@BlackRock
’s new institutional crypto fund received 0.97 unsolicited ETH via Tornado Cash within hours of launching, potentially creating legal problems for the world’s largest asset manager.
✍️ by
@httpsageyd
🗒 via
@ArkhamIntel
🗞 Read more:
The blockchain infrastructure company will work towards implementing the Perseus Upgrade on Pyth Network as it moves to a permissionless mainnet with token-led governance in 2023.
@IOHK_Charles
@amilcaronline
Hi Charles, speaking of fiction, do you want to address the discrepancies between your claims of dropping out of a PhD program and the schools' assertions that you were enrolled as an undergrad?
I've published an article on Forbes revealing this person's identity:
I also unveil their identity on today's episode of
@Unchained_pod
, which also features an interview by
@Steven_Ehrlich
of
@ForbesCrypto
with me about the findings:
Hey everyone, I'm shopping a book idea right now. Please like/retweet this if you would buy a book by me about how crypto went mainstream in 2017, with ~40 million+ new users, 900 ICOs (up from 34 in 2016) and the total market cap skyrocketing from $17 billion to $565 billion. 🙏
Some news:
1 Unchained now comes out WEEKLY! This was the most requested “improvement” to the show.
2 I’m launching a new podcast! Hits next Friday. (🤞) Stay tuned!
3 After five amazing years at Forbes, I’ve decided to depart. More later on where you’ll see my writing next!
.
@stablekwon
insists that Terra was a “massive market failure,” but not a scam. And…he still wants to build. 🛠
He says, “The way that I think about it is, I am but 31, and I would still love to contribute.”
Watch the full episode:
Omg, I’m in an Uber in Berlin and my driver is on speakerphone talking in a foreign language, and the only word they keep saying that I understand is “Bitcoin.”
Hey all,
My book, The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze, is now available for pre-order.
The book, which is all about Ethereum and the 2017 ICO mania, comes out Nov. 2nd. Pre-order it today!
👿👺🤡 The "villains" of crypto in 2022 all have *one* thing in common: They didn’t do anything bad, they swear 😇
Look back at crypto this year from the viewpoint of its biggest villains — and then give us your input! 😄
.
@stablekwon
joins Unchained for the first time since Terra's collapse.
🌎Where is he?
🪙Where's the money?
🧑⚖️What does he say to allegations of business irregularities?
💭 What does he think about the direction his life took?
📺Don’t miss this episode.
OK, Crypto Twitter. Only one (maybe two*) people at the party I went to totally got my costume. I imagine the number here will be far higher. Happy Halloween! 🎃
@HesterPeirce
Wowowowow -- she DOES NOT mince words 💥💥💥
"Today’s order does not undo the many harms created by the disparate treatment of spot bitcoin products."
"First, our arbitrary and capricious treatment of applications in this area will continue to harm our reputation far beyond…
@EM_RESUS
Also, doctors, please listen to and believe patients even when they’re not at the point of death!
My personal experience has been that the vast majority do not at all listen. The person whose been living in their body for many years has way more experience with it than you do!
How are you explaining this to your non-crypto friends? My preferred method starts with:
“It’s like if the person you thought was Hermione actually turned out to be Voldemort.”
On
@Unchained_pod
, Do Kwon (
@stablekwon
), a self-described “toymaker,” dives into the details of UST’s bitcoin forex reserve and unveils an idea for a fungible labor market that, by the sound of it, could change the way crypto devs are paid forever:
Hey guys, I see a lot of misconceptions about North Korea underlying a lot of the tweets on it, and I think it's important to understand what makes this country different before you form an opinion on the Virgil situation.
Does anyone else feel like the algorithm changed in the last week or two, and not for the better?
I feel like I’m getting a lot more random tweets that aren’t related to the main topic I follow (crypto). As if Twitter is going more toward Facebook than being a curated Reddit.
Omg!!! The Cryptopians is
#364
on the Amazon ranking!!! My agent said it’s really hard to crack the top 1,000. 🙌🏻🥰
🙏🏻 to all of you who bought the book!!!
Kinda crazy that this amendment got put forward at the 11th hour, now with support from the White House, after Ethereum has spent years planning and has begun to execute its transition to POS ...
Hey guys, I scheduled an interview with someone and last minute, we decided to go in a different direction, which happens frequently. Now this person has gone full ballistic on me and is hosting this Spaces. Can you all please report him? 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
@NAChristakis
Would be great to look more closely at how South Korea managed it because they are a democracy and I don’t think they restricted movement anywhere near to this extent. However they did it would probably be much easier to manage in the US.
A bunch of you criticized me for interviewing Kyle on the show. However, those that did so also said that they would not watch it or that I was platforming him.
I just want to say: if you didn't listen to the show, you don't know whether or not I was platforming him and have no…
3AC’s Kyle Davies on Why He’s Crypto’s Lloyd Blankfein and Why He’s Not Sorry
Few crypto figures have been as vilified as
@KyleLDavies
, the co-founder, along with Su Zhu, of crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital, which imploded in mid-2022, losing $3 billion and bringing many…
My next book is about FTX, however I’ve had to take a pause on it due to health issues.
But I will correct the record on all this. If you want that to happen sooner rather than later, pray for me to get better so I can resume work at my normal level 🙏🏻
🌏Is
@stablekwon
‘on the run’?📣What does he wish to say to the victims of Terra’s collapse?💸Where did TFL/LFG funds go?
🎥Check out these previous interviews re Do/Terra on
@Unchained_pod
+ this sneak peek at the NEW episode, which drops Tuesday.🔥🔥
I took a class recently and the teacher asked us what our favorite thing about ourselves was. Others wrote things like their compassion, creativity, joy, etc. I wrote, “I go after what I want and don’t care what other people think.” 😂
Hey all, it’s my 7-year anniversary covering crypto! 🎉
Thanks to all of you for reading my articles 🗞 and my book 📚 and for 🎧 listening to my podcasts and/or 📺 watching my videos.
These have been the most fun and rewarding 7 years of my career. Excited for more! 😍
Crypto lawyers, why didn’t he just say ether is a security? He’s implied exactly that multiple times — “all crypto assets but Bitcoin are securities.” I don’t get why he’s hemming and hawing
Gary Gensler, the chair of the SEC, was interviewed in Congress today.
Here is a clip of him and Representative McHenry arguing on whether Ethereum, $ETH, is a commodity or a security, with Gary unable to answer the question.
Just realized that Unchained crossed over 5 million downloads sometime recently. Totally amazed at this podcast I started on a lark! Thanks to everyone who's been listening!
On The Chopping Block, in light of Solana’s recent 7-hour outage, Andre Cronje questions whether Solana is even a blockchain.
Is Solana better categorized as a hosting solution than a blockchain?
Full ep:
Today's Unchained: Vitalik Buterin on
#Ethereum
at 5, Ethereum 2.0, ETH's monetary policy, criticisms of Ethereum 2.0,
#DeFi
, yield farming, Virgil Griffith, Steven Nerayoff, the EF's transparency, and the future of Ethereum.
🥳 It’s my 11th year anniversary of working for myself. Retweeting this thread for anyone who needs some inspiration or who could use a reminder that you don’t have to have everything figured out right now.
Pursue your own joy, trust your heart, and DGAF what anyone else…
I almost never post anything personal on Twitter, but today is the 10th anniversary of my being self-employed, and for anyone who needs to hear this, I feel compelled to tell the story of how this leap has led me to more career success than I ever could have imagined 🧚🏻
When I wrote this tweet I did not think it would blow up like this. Thanks to all of you who wrote lovely, encouraging responses, including those of you who slid into my DMs.
I had barely used the block button before but used it liberally these past 24 hours 🙏🏻 for the support
📈 .
@weremeow
says there’s no reason all types of companies shouldn’t be able to publicly list themselves on chain, instead of on an exchange.
🗣️ Do you think that someday company shares will be listed on a DEX like Jupiter?
🎧 :
According to
@stablekwon
,
@terra_money
is a Layer 2 solution for BTC where “Bitcoin only needs to be good at being one thing, being an asset.” What do you think – will Terra be the layer 2 for bitcoin?
Episode link:
Here's how Miami Mayor
@FrancisSuarez
reconciles his interest in Bitcoin, which some say has an outsized environmental impact, against his love for Miami and his desire to mitigate the effects of climate change there.
Do you think more mining in the US is the answer?
On Unchained,
@woonomic
and
@n3ocortex
break down turbulent times in BTC using on-chain analytics, covering:
- How much Elon's tweets matter
- What whales are doing
- What stablecoin trends say about BTC
- Why we're still in a bull market
Episode Link:
On the
@Unchained_pod
:
-
@woonomic
gives his Bitcoin price target for December 2021
-
@PeterLBrandt
explains why he now trades to accumulate BTC rather than USD
Check out the full episode by clicking one of the links below! Thanks to
@RealVision
for hosting
Would you be interested in seeing screenshots from ICO projects that approach me offering a pay for play deal? I get so many of these, and it's disgusting. Why not develop a project good enough to get organic support? If you have to pay people to get buzz, you're doing it wrong.
A lot of big name crypto investors with egg on their faces. Their backers are a Who’s Who of crypto VC firms 🫣
This will definitely have big ramifications
Hey all, I’m taking a little health sabbatical for some, not all, of my work. You won’t notice anything different other than that I won’t do the weekly recap on Fridays. The wonderful
@delrayman
will fill in for me. Besides that, the shows will be the same. But if I’m not very…
Mike
@novogratz
thinks BTC is going to consolidate for a while between $35k-$50k, because institutions are coming -- but slowly.
How do you think the rest of 2021 will go and what’s your EOY price prediction?
Watch the full episode here:
Arthur Hayes and Will Clemente on How This Bitcoin Halving Is Different
The
#Bitcoin
halving is just around the corner, expected to be on April 19 or April 20.
@CryptoHayes
, CIO of Maelstrom, and
@WClementeIII
, co-founder of Reflexivity Research discuss the rise in Bitcoin…
I'm sorry, people, but this is totally not cool. What do they plan to do when they find him? WTF
People are crazy -- Do was right when he said on my show that he can't reveal his whereabouts
Seriously, don't do this
In the US, we typically pronounce ETH like eeth.
In Europe, they typically pronounce it “eh” with a “th” sound at the end.
Is there one right way to say it? Apparently not. So just say it whatever way feels more comfortable to you and don’t care what other people think 😊
On today’s Unchained,
@RaoulGMI
discusses how ETH's price trajectory mirrors the early days of the
#BTC
price movements — and that's how he concluded "ETH = BTC." Do you agree with his analysis?
Epic episode of Unchained with
@cz_binance
out today! A fun, exhilarating but substantive conversation. I ask him some tough questions, and he gives it right back. Could be my all-time favorite so far. Be sure to check it out!
A must-listen episode on $XRP, the third-largest crypto by market cap.
@twobitidiot
and
@mattleising
go over whether or not it plays an essential role in Ripple's products, why banks are unlikely to adopt it, & why it's centralized. Check it out!
@winklevoss
But Twitter isn't being an arbiter. This is a verifiable fact. They're just saying, go check it out here yourselves.
Censorship would be like what happened to Li Wenliang. Twitter just saying, here's a resource where you can check the facts isn't censorship.
On
@Unchained_pod
, two investors and guiding voices for Crypto Twitter,
@Cobie
and
@cburniske
, discuss survival techniques for the crypto bear market, including:
* judging market tops/bottoms
* lessons from previous bears
* catalysts for the next bull
👉
So far this month,
@AxieInfinity
has generated more than $200M in revenue. On Unconfirmed,
@leah_cb
covers:
-why Axie Infinity is so popular in the Philippines
-how much $$ players can earn gaming full-time
-why Axie Infinity scholarships are coveted
Here's what
@woonomic
predicts for this upcoming cycle in Bitcoin — who he thinks will come in when, and what narratives are already being proven false. What do you think will happen in 2021? What are your projections?
On Unchained,
@woonomic
covers everything on the BTC bull-run, saying why the price doubled in the past month, what price projections various models give, who is buying, and why there is an influx of hodling whales. Plus, he tells us what to expect in 2021.
Play-to-earn is a Web3 concept that
@AxieInfinity
COO
@Psycheout86
describes as “proof-of-play.”
What do you think of the play-to-earn concept? Is it here to stay?
Link:
Terraform Labs wants access to wallets used by short sellers on FTX to trade UST and LUNA to prove that a “coordinated attack” was behind the depeg of its algorithmic stablecoin.
3AC’s Kyle Davies on Why He’s Crypto’s Lloyd Blankfein and Why He’s Not Sorry
Few crypto figures have been as vilified as
@KyleLDavies
, the co-founder, along with Su Zhu, of crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital, which imploded in mid-2022, losing $3 billion and bringing many…