I wrote about DUNE (the books) and how we make meaning from all the spice and worms and wars and false gods and Duncan Idaho gholas. huge thanks to
@Jacob_Brogan
and
@nthjohnwilliams
for the edits. also in print today in
@washingtonpost
Google NYC employees who arrived at the office early this morning stood in a line to test their badges-- if light turned red, it meant you had been laid off. if green, you were safe. ๐
Derrick Rose's insane Adidas endorsement contract includes Adidas paying Rose's brother $250k to $350k per year and Rose's best friend $50k to $75k per year.
@jon_wertheim
!! Walmart EVP of corporate affairs Dan Bartlett tells
@YahooFinance
that amid
#coronavirus
: โWe are seeing increased sales in tops, but not bottomsโ because so many people are doing video conferences from home. and all that matters is the above the waist shot. $WMT
the craziest part of this insane clip is when Brian Williams says "don't tell us if you're ahead of us on the math" and you think he's about to realize on air that it's wrong-- and he doesn't.
there are Google people calling this "fake news" because layoff emails were sent around 7am. I didn't say otherwise. I described a scene that happened today: Googlers arrived at office and if they hadn't seen work email on their subway ride, surprise: badge red -- can't come in.
Google NYC employees who arrived at the office early this morning stood in a line to test their badges-- if light turned red, it meant you had been laid off. if green, you were safe. ๐
inbox:
@PremierLacrosse
says its 2020 championship game had total audience of 340k viewers on NBC, up 23% from last year's championship. overall, the 2020 PLL tournament's 14 broadcasts on NBC/NBCSN averaged 153k viewers, up 33% from the 2019 season.
SEC chair Jay Clayton at
#ConsensusInvest
gets applause from the room after he says: "An asset like
#bitcoin
, weโve determined that doesnโt have the attributes of security... itโs designed to be akin to the dollar, the yen, the euro. And it operates that way."
Hey Dan! Long time no talk. You and I were barely acquainted in college 12 years ago, now I've decided I want to get into crypto, when can you carve out an hour in the middle of your workday to walk me through it and tell me how I can make money in this industry? ๐
scoop: I'm joining
@variantfund
as the firm's first editor in chief! The team there is insanely smart and plugged in, and I believe in the portfolio and the thesis. We are going to put out world-class writing, ideas, and thought leadership for builders in a crypto-native way.
NFL makes it official: press release announcing Pizza Hut as the new pizza sponsor. (note: Papa John's still has existing partnerships with 22 teams that it says it will continue.)
this is low-key fascinating / says a lot: look at the numbers on
@SInow
โs tweet of its own esports cover (1.7m followers) vs
@NICKMERCS
tweet of it (1.9m followers).
"we are not starbucks, we aren't political-- we aren't gonna put stuff on our cups to start conversations. we don't want to engage you in political conversation, we want to get you in & out of our store in seconds. it's donuts & ice cream-- just be happy."
#dunkin
#inta2019
personal news! Iโm joining
@decryptmedia
as EIC. Iโve been a fan of the team there since its launch in 2018, canโt wait to help take it to the next level as the go-to place for clear explanatory coverage of this red hot industry. AND
@jeffjohnroberts
is joining as exec editor! ๐
NEWS: Ripple announces full commercial launch of xRapid, the product that uses $XRP for liquidity. 8 companies were pilot-testing, 3 have now fully implemented:
@YahooFinance
"When Jamie Dimon came out and blasted
#bitcoin
as vociferously as a person can, the price fell but then it came back stronger because the world doesn't care what somebody from a 19th century institution thinks anymore." --
@ReformedBroker
playing to the crypto crowd
Trevor Lawrence has signed a multi-year, multi-million-dollar endorsement deal with FTX-owned Blockfolio, and will receive a "significant signing bonus" fully paid in crypto:
Text from a bond trader friend at a major bank: โThis strikes me as monumentally important. The bond market is antique in many ways and blockchain is basically a perfect model for how bonds should be created/settled/traded.โ
On our
@YahooFinance
crypto heat map today, almost every coin is seeing red except ripple.
$XRP is up 20,000% in 2017. twenty thousand percent.
What is ripple, you ask? A company, a protocol, and a coin. explainer:
BUFFETT on U.S. economy after
#coronavirus
: "I remain convinced, as I was after WWII, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 9/11, the financial crisis, that nothing can basically stop America. We have faced great problems in the past. And the American miracle has always prevailed."
๐ DraftKings CEO
@JasonDRobins
is wearing a CryptoPunk t-shirt to ring the opening bell at the Nasdaq this morning. heโs with board member Shalom Meckenzie, who bought the โCovid Alienโ CryptoPunk for $11.7m in Sothebyโs auction this week.
The incredible efficient fast and frictionless Ethereum blockchain will require... $150 in gas fees to accept an offer of 0.001 ETH ($3.95) for an NFT of my dog. lolololol
"I think a lot of people were wrongly expecting that the merge would significantly increase network throughput or make the tech a lot more scalable. But the Ethereum Foundation repeatedly said no, the purpose is to remove proof of work."
@michaelfkong
Ripple and Western Union both confirm: $WU is 5th customer to test xRapid,
@Ripple
's product that uses $XRP. (100+ customers are using xCurrent, which does not use XRP.)
XRP up 11% today on the news.
@YahooFinance
#YahooAMS
hi yโall we got married over the weekend on a farm in Nashville and the night ended with fireworks and we rode off in Waylon Jenningsโ 1962 Cadillac limo.
Jay-Z has joined Puma as head of basketball ops. (via
@Complex
scoop.) reminder: Roc Nation Sports basketball clients include: Durant, Jeremy Lin, Danny Green, Chris Boucher, Rudy Gay, Justise Winslow, Wilson Chandler, Willie Cauley-Stein, Moritz Wagner, Zhaire Smith.
.
@Dame_Lillard
is the newest investor and equity partner in PlayersTV. joins Chris Paul, Carmelo, Kyrie, Trevor Bauer &more. Dame talked to
@YahooFinance
about his investments off the court + social justice + the violence in DC. important candid chat!:
I just sent $100 worth of bitcoin from my
@Coinbase
wallet to a hardware wallet (Ledger Nano S) as part of a video demo, and the Coinbase fee was $15 !!!!!!
Today
@Mailchimp
, which we have used for 4+ years, deactivated our newsletter account with no warning or explanation. now I see from Twitter searches it has happened to lots of crypto content creators this week. has it happened to you? we'd like to hear about it.
"Instead of trying to bring Bitcoin in a wrapped fashion to some smart contract chain, why don't you bring the smart contract functionality directly to Bitcoin?"
@muneeb
@decryptmedia
"It's exciting to imagine a future where DAOs function like decentralized media companies. A creator DAO could honestly be a bunch of talented artists who come together and create multimedia projects on their own with no company" --
@pplpleasr1
at
#EtherealSummit
This story from
@ahaywa
on Stacks building dapps (and now NFTs) atop Bitcoin -- and
@muneeb
's effort to prove doubters wrong that the Bitcoin blockchain can do this -- is fantastic and important:
one note: Harvard Blockchain Conference happened during Avalanche Summit in Barcelona, and also felt like an Avalanche event: sponsored by Ava Labs; tons of attendees in Avalanche gear; keynote speaker was John Wu. $AVAX having a moment...
in 2017,
@Fanatics
:
- got investments from NFL, NFLPA, NBA, MLS
- got a $1b investment from SoftBank
- bought Majestic
- finagled extensive new rights deals with NBA, NHL, MLS
so: it's our
@YahooFinance
sports business of the year.
We werenโt going to announce this until later this week, but hate cannot win the day. No one should ever be asked to apologize for standing up for whatโs right โ we are proud to welcome
@bubbawallace
to the Beats by Dr. Dre family.
"I believe Ripple will demonstrate an intrinsic value for $XRP that some of these sillier coins and assets donโt have and wonโt have"
@CoryTV
@YahooFinance
Draymond Green talks business with
@YahooFinance
; credits
@KingJames
: "He's opened up a lot of doors for a lot of us athletes in the route that weโre taking now, in being more involved as partners, as opposed to endorsees."
"Rico Nasty told Decrypt she hadnโt heard about the controversy over the environmental impact of NFTs, but said it sounded 'really fucked up.'" ๐
@Rico_nastyy
@lil_smush
@decryptmedia
extremely creative movie marketing: Jake Gyllenhaal just posted this phone number on Instagram; if you call it, you hear a recording of him taking a 911 call, presumably a trailer for his new Netflix movie โThe Guiltyโ (from โTraining Dayโ director Antoine Fuqua) cc
@adnansvirk
โI was 100% sure this guy was a scammer. Like, no way. 13 years old? Heโs probably some big hairy dude.โ
I love this โฆ
@lil_smush
โฉ story on โฆ
@robogajesh
โฉ:
your Zoom call probably does not need to have video, and thus probably does not need to be conducted over Zoom. it can just be a phonecall, remember those?