Crypto’s competitive advantage: $3,950 transaction fee for a $260 NFT
https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF/status/1520597019726950400
Just in case you forgot the Web3 promises: you will be your own boss
https://cointelegraph.com/explained/is-web3-like-playing-minecraft
Bored Ape Theft
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/26/bored-ape-yacht-club-nft-hack-theft-art-simian-oblivion
Jaromil: The Real Crypto Movement
https://www.makery.info/en/2022/04/30/english-the-real-crypto-movement/
Surfing with Satochi, Art, Blockchain and NFTs, new book by Domenico Quaranta
https://aksioma.org/surfing.with.satoshi
NFT event in Berlin
https://nftberlin.org/
Why has the Terra stablecoin broken its US dollar peg and why sould you care?
https://moneyweek.com/investments/alternative-finance/bitcoin-crypto/604833/terra-stablecoin-broken-its-us-dollar-peg
When the expert speaker at an NFT tech panel goes rogue (via Eduard de Jong)
https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/16/something_for_the_weekend/
David Golumbia: The Best Arguments Against Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain
https://davidgolumbia.medium.com/everything-about-the-cryptocurrency-grift-faed1308ace7
Crypto cult explains to cult members what went wrong with the Terra debacle
https://cointelegraph.com/news/what-happened-terra-debacle-exposes-flaws-plaguing-the-crypto-industry
Goodbye to Stablegains
https://blog.stablegains.com/were-discontinuing-the-stablegains-service-please-withdraw-your-remaining-funds-405e6bfb89c4
Late Insights for Cointelegraph Believers
https://cointelegraph.com/news/needed-a-massive-education-project-to-fight-hacks-and-scams
Snowden Revealed As Participant In Ceremony Creating $2 Billion Cryptocurrency (via Patrice)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2022/04/27/edward-snowden-revealed-as-key-participant-in-mysterious-ceremony-creating-2-billion-anonymous-cryptocurrency/
Adam Tooze: The end of crypto’s “Wild West”?
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-116-the-end-of-cryptos
My first impressions of web3
https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
Crypto Enthusiast Sentenced to 5 Years for North Korea Trip (via Patrice)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/crypto-enthusiast-virgil-griffith-sentenced-to-5-years-for-north-korea-trip
US Adds Axie Infinity Hacker to North Korea Sanctions List
https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vdg3/us-adds-axie-infinity-hacker-to-north-korea-sanctions-list
Ethereum Has Issues
https://blog.dshr.org/2022/04/ethereum-has-issues.html
DAO regulation in Australia, 3 parts
https://cointelegraph.com/authors/oleksii-konashevych
When a new technology comes along, our existing laws don’t just go away (via Eduard de Jong)
https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/gensler-remarks-crypto-markets-040422
Janet L. Yellen on Digital Assets (via Eduard de Jong)
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0706
Safe moon had a rough landing (via David Golumbia)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/u7htpz/looks_like_safemoon_had_a_rough_landing/
How crypto giant Binance built ties to a Russian FSB-linked agency
https://www.reuters.com/technology/how-crypto-giant-binance-built-ties-russian-fsb-linked-agency-2022-04-22/
Crypto Traders Seek Treatment For Compulsive Gambling
https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/it-could-destroy-your-life-crypto-traders-seek-treatment-compulsive-gambling
Podcasts on the Politics and Poetics of Blockchain as a Tool for Radical Imagination
https://pod.link/1608790925
This is Financial Advice, new essay by Geraldine Juárez
https://paletten.net/artiklar/this-is-financial-advice
Welcome to the Girlbossification of Crypto
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/06/women-crypto-nft/
Luke Plant: The technological case against Bitcoin and blockchain
https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/the-technological-case-against-bitcoin-and-blockchain/
‘Crypto Ruined My Life’: The Mental Health Crisis Hitting Bitcoin Investors
https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvn8z/crypto-bad-for-mental-health
How to finance a dictatorship – cryptos, cyber attacks and hacking
https://www.rug.nl/research/globalisation-studies-groningen/calendar/gsg-public-lecture
Defining Web3: An Off-Chain Collective Research Project
https://gitcoin.co/grants/4719/defining-web3-an-off-chain-collective-research-pr
Stop spreading the Beeple myths (Jon Ippolito)
https://twitter.com/jonippolito/status/1502394306933534730
NFT use during the Ukraine War (via Patrice Riemens)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/13/ukraine-nft-history-of-russian-invasion-war
Dutch public broadcasting VPRO documentary by Bregtje van der Haak about NFT craze @Art Basel Miami
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UPAiMCuMTU
Six months in, El Salvador’s bitcoin gamble is crumbling
https://restofworld.org/2022/el-salvador-bitcoin/
The Blockchain Socialist interviews Tina Rivers Ryan
https://theblockchainsocialist.com/from-net-art-to-the-rise-of-nfts-in-an-age-of-austerity/
Punks and Sellouts by Mitchell F Chan
https://outland.art/yuga-labs-cryptopunks-sale/
Facebook’s Crypto Practices Worry a Major Regulator
https://www.thestreet.com/technology/facebooks-crypto-practices-worry-a-major-regulator
Max Keiser Deletes Pro-Russia Tweets, Quits Russia Today
https://thedeepdive.ca/max-keiser-deletes-pro-russia-tweets-quits-russia-today/
Bored Ape Yacht Club is Racist and Contains Nazi Dog Whistles
https://gordongoner.com/
Music meet Web3 event in Berlin
Protocol.bgnm.de
Were we wrong about Web3?
https://terminusdb.com/blog/were-we-wrong-about-web3/?hss_channel=tw-1125795648442441729
625 million USD worth of ETH up in smoke
https://roninblockchain.substack.com/p/community-alert-ronin-validators
Jason Lowery & IA: Can Bitcoin Bring Peace? Asset Protection, Great Reset, Mars + more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK7YiSkjiJ0
NFT-museum of the war of Putin’s Russia against Ukraine
https://metahistory.gallery/warline
Academia Excludes Bitcoiners And Supports Tyranny
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/academia-excludes-bitcoin-support
Cabaña & Linares: Decolonising money: learning from collective struggles for self-determination
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-022-01104-3
About the Association of Cryptocurrency Journalists and Researchers
https://acjr.network/
Wendy Yan: an Artist in Crypto
https://reboothq.substack.com/p/crypto-artists
NFT accident at ZKM Karlsruhe (in German)
https://www.monopol-magazin.de/zkm-cryptopunks-nfts
Ian Bogost on NFTs and the Securitazation of Data
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/02/future-internet-blockchain-investment-banking/621480/
Cory Doctorow on Crypto: Money is Power
https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/03/liquidation-preference/#sweet-sweet-corruption
Tante explains the third web (not just for beginners)
https://tante.cc/2021/12/17/the-third-web/
AssangeDAO raises 38m (later increased to 53m)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/assangedao-raises-38m-in-donations-to-help-free-wikileaks-founder
Feds arrest married couple, seize $3.6 billion in hacked bitcoin funds
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/02/08/bitfinex-hack-bitcoin-arrests/
Casey Newton: The man who got fired by his own DAO
https://www.platformer.news/p/the-man-who-got-fired-by-his-dao
Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou (via Patricia de Vries)
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo125281793.html
Channel Wants Content Creators to ‘Squad Up’ via Web 3
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/channel-wants-content-creators-squad-212259855.html
Briton creates ‘crypto utopia’ in South Pacific (via Patrice Riemens)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/12/bitcoin-paradise-briton-creates-crypto-utopia-in-south-pacific
the blocked chain
https://theblockedchain.xyz/
Conversation between Rafaël Rozendaal & Takeshi Murata
https://outland.art/rafael-rozendaal-takeshi-murata/
Hermès Sues NFT Creator Over ‘MetaBirkin’ Sales
https://www.businessoffashion.com/news/luxury/hermes-sues-nft-creator-over-metabirkin-sales/
“This is a story every science writer could be proud of” Wonderland Time
Hackers steal $80 million
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/28/22906366/cryptocurrency-hackers-steal-qubit-binance-ethereum
What the hell are NFTs and what do they mean for art?
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/what-the-hell-are-nfts-and-what-do-they-mean-for-art-1.4782540
I Dream of DeFi: Conversation with Ruth Catlow, Max Grünberg, Max Haiven, Aude Launay, and Denise Thwaites
https://flash—art.com/2021/01/defi-decentralization-crypto-art/
On stolen NFT’s (via Patrice Riemens)
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/jan/29/huge-mess-of-theft-artists-sound-alarm-theft-nfts-proliferates
Cointelegraph video: Scammers, WATCH OUT! Beware of the crypto vigilante!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqfapMzEdm4
ROBNESS: I’VE BEEN MAKING CRYPTOART SINCE 2016, DURING THE ‘DANK AGES.’
https://twitter.com/robnessofficial/status/1488914780630831107
Assange NFT
https://cointelegraph.com/news/top-secret-julian-assange-and-pak-nft-collaboration-is-wikileaked
Dan Olson’s “Line Goes Up—The Problem with NFTs” 2 hour video criticizing crypto and NFTs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g