Why I am Cryptophic
https://www.bvp.com/atlas/why-i-m-cryptophobic
Pop-up Community zuzalu, Istanbul, November 2023
https://zuzalu.city/
https://zuzalu.notion.site/Homepage-cb20817c7ca54ca6a151915babd03c38
Are NFTs Dead?
https://dappgambl.com/nfts/dead-nfts/
Jacob Silverman: Blowing Up the Crypto Cartel
https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/blowing-up-the-crypto-cartel-silverman
SafeMoon executives withdrew $200 million
https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/11/01/sec-allegations-safemoon-200-million-mcclarens-luxury-homes-travel/
Joan Westerberg: Sam Bankman-Fried is a feature, not a bug
https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/sam-bankman-fried-is-a-feature-not-a-bug
The fake hitman, the crypto king and a wild revenge plan gone bad (via Brett Scott)
https://www.ft.com/content/8d3c8121-5963-466c-96d8-7dda7e9cee90
Berlin-based Circles project terminates operations as a coop (via Tara Merk)
https://twitter.com/CirclesUBI/status/1714281638115631402
It doesn’t really matter who created Bitcoin or why
https://bombthrower.com/it-really-doesnt-matter-who-created-bitcoin-or-why/
In Crypto, Apps Need Infrastructure Like Infrastructure Needs Apps
https://gabygoldberg.substack.com/p/in-crypto-apps-need-infrastructure
Ponzinomics – Sam Bankman-Fried, Gisele and a Credulous Michael Lewis at the Zenith of Crypto Hype
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/zeke-faux-number-go-up-book-excerpt.html
Dead NFTs: The Evolving Landscape of the NFT Market
https://dappgambl.com/nfts/dead-nfts/
Book Review of Number Go Up, On Crypto Shenanigans by Zeke Faux (via EdJ)
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/a-review-of-number-go-up-on-crypto-shenanigans/
What were NFTs? A fad, and the next one is just around the corner
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/27/nfts-non-fungible-tokens-pandemic-loneliness-craze
Molly White: A preview of the Sam Bankman-Fried trial
https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/a-preview-of-the-sam-bankman-fried?r=4lkvi
GoFailMe, The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding by Erik Schneiderhan and Martin Lukk
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=30793
The Hard Economics of Selling Data
https://blog.databoutique.com/p/the-hard-economics-of-selling-web
LI-MA Presents: Blockchain art, an update
https://li-ma.nl/lima/news/li-ma-presents-blockchain-art-update
Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better by Lyn Alden
https://www.lynalden.com/broken-money/
Report of the Bitcoin Amsterdam Conference, Oct 2023
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-amsterdam-btc-shines-during-crypto-bear-market
Gemini, Genesis, and DCG sued over $1 billion for alleged fraud
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=gemini-genesis-and-dcg-lawsuit
The sanctions against Tornado Cash could signal a new era of infrastructural imperialism
https://zine.zora.co/tornado-cash-primavera-de-filippi-morshed-mannan
RIP MoneyLab speaker David Golumbia, 1963–2023
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/09/15/david-golumbia-1963-2023/
“An ecosystem that doesn’t care about users, business practices and marketing its product.”
https://cointelegraph.com/news/polkadot-community-polkaworld-halts-operations-after-failed-funding-bid
Achim Szepanski, Money and Capital, part I
https://non.copyriot.com/money-and-capital-1/
Archim Szepanski, Derivative Quantumfield Communism
https://non.copyriot.com/derivative-quantumfield-communism/
Alejandro Marcó del Pont: A Future Multipolar Monetary Order
https://non.copyriot.com/a-future-multipolar-monetary-order/
Hong Kong influencer cut ties with platform JPEX at centre of alleged fraud scandal
https://hongkongfp.com/2023/09/22/hong-kong-influencer-joseph-lam-says-he-cut-ties-with-crypto-platform-jpex-at-centre-of-alleged-fraud-scandal/
Crypto and the Real Meaning of ‘Radicalism’ (book review)
https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/08/03/crypto-and-the-real-meaning-of-radicalism/
Inte Gloerich: Towards DAOs of Difference-Reading Blockchain Through Sylvia Wynter
https://aprja.net//article/view/140448
A short history of NFTs till early 2023
https://cointelegraph.com/explained/who-invented-nfts-a-brief-history-of-nonfungible-tokens
About Rhett Mankind’s Turbo Toad
https://news.artnet.com/market/turbo-memecoin-artist-rhett-mankind-turbotoad-chatgpt-2297831
Special issue of Finance and Society on Volatility in Finance, Art, and Culture
http://financeandsociety.ed.ac.uk/issue/view/564
Tornado Cash mixer service charged with laundering more than $1 billion in criminal proceeds
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/tornado-cash-founders-charged-money-laundering-and-sanctions-violations
https://thehackernews.com/2023/08/tornado-cash-founders-charged-in.html
Brett Scott on Payment Spotting
https://brettscott.substack.com/p/paymentspotting
French data watchdog probes Worldcoin’s Paris hub
https://www.politico.eu/article/french-data-watchdog-probes-worldcoin-paris-altman-chatgpt/
NFT collapse and monster egos feature in new Murakami exhibition
https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/nft-collapse-and-monster-egos-feature-in-new-murakami-exhibition/
Just out–Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
https://bookshop.org/p/books/easy-money-cryptocurrency-casino-capitalism-and-the-golden-age-of-fraud-jacob-silverman/18699362
Are DAOs overhyped and unworkable? Lessons from the front lines
https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/dao-hyped-voting-decentralization/
Arkham Intelligence releases “dox-to-earn” project
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=arkham-intelligence-intelligence-exchange
Want to prove you’re really human? Let Sam Altman scan your eyeballs
https://www.zdnet.com/article/openai-ceo-officially-launches-crypto-project-worldcoin/
Vitalik Buterin: What do I think about biometric proof of personhood?
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/07/24/biometric.html
Related… Introducing Worldcoin: A New Identity and Financial Network
https://whitepaper.worldcoin.org/
Molly White on WorldCoin: A Solution in Search of its Problem
https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/worldcoin-a-solution-in-search-of
Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse
https://blockworks.co/news/worldcoin-privacy-concerns
The Bored Ape Yacht Club Saga: Triumphs, Trials, and Tragedies
https://hackernoon.com/the-bored-apes-yacht-club-saga-triumphs-trials-and-tragedies
Will Cryptocurrency Ever Deliver on Its Grand Vision?
https://hackernoon.com/will-cryptocurrency-ever-deliver-on-its-grand-vision
How I discovered the underground world of credit card network exploitation
https://piotrmierzejewski.com/p/card-networks-exploitation
Blockchain Radical by Josh Davila—How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725770/blockchain-radicals-by-josh-davila/
Jacob Silverman: Blowing Up the Crypto Cartel
https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/blowing-up-the-crypto-cartel-silverman
Brett Scott on Zero is the Future of Money
https://brettscott.substack.com/p/the-crypto-credit-alliance
More on Sam Altman’s Eye Scanning WorldCoin Crypto Scheme
https://twitter.com/MilkRoadDaily/status/1662588353353580549
Web3Privacy: Tornado Cash 2023 Prague Conference Videos
https://watch.web3privacy.info/
Hacker drains Russian special services wallets, transfers funds to Ukraine
https://english.nv.ua/nation/hacker-drains-russian-special-services-wallets-transfers-funds-to-ukraine-50331075.html
Making DAOs Work
https://otherinternet.substack.com/p/making-daos-work
Dumb Money film trailer on Game Stop episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmr8YmwnZ3w
The Digital Euro: A Flawed Concept Doomed to Flop (via Patrice Riemens)
https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-digital-euro-a-flawed-concept-doomed-to-flop
Blockchain Scenes, Journal of Digital Social Research Issue
https://jdsr.se/ojs/index.php/jdsr/issue/view/14
Other Internet Newsletter
https://otherinternet.substack.com/archive
Ex Celsius CEO arrested, the company agrees to pay $4.7 billion settlement
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/former-celsius-ceo-arrested-company-agrees-to-pay-47-billion-settlement/ar-AA1dOLxU