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you know it’s the depths of winter in New England when “mid-March” sounds like a distant, almost mythical time. when my librarian told me that’s when my books would be due back it’s like I caught a glimpse of spring.

so, what do you do for work?

Coinbase must be concerned I'm at risk of running out of material

Sam Bankman-Fried has just filed a pro se motion for a new trial, via his mother

His motion mainly argues that two former FTX employees who didn't testify (Daniel Chapsky and Ryan Salame) would have undercut prosecutors' narrative, but were threatened out of testifying. He also claims Nishad Singh was coerced by prosecutors into changing his testimony.

the one upside of publications treating prediction markets seriously is headlines like these

Binance bitcoin bailout

It does not seem to me to bode well that they’re getting this nervous when the bitcoin price hasn’t even dropped below $80,000

finally got bad enough that it needs fixing, and today i could use a fiddly project to occupy my brain

sadly i forgot that this design has the components mounted on the bottom of the PCB which means desoldering all the switches, so ten minutes was a very unrealistic estimate

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

Deaths, detentions and deportations of American citizens in the second Trump administration

House Oversight Democrats have published a Web3 is Going Great-style “Trump Family Digital Grift” counter.

This goes with their recent staff report, “Professionalized Corruption: How Donald Trump is abusing power and accepting digital kickbacks from foreign and criminal interests to cash in on the presidency like never before”.

Great background on why Coinbase sank the crypto bill they’d just spent months lobbying for, and the fundamental conflict between the banking lobby and the crypto lobby when it comes to stablecoin interest.