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kind of a bummer to DNF a book I’d really been looking forward to (Children of Time), but life’s too short to read books you don’t want to read

Saturday night at the BlueSky/The Onion party at SXSW
(photo by Matt Bradford)

happy international women's day to trans women in particular

Solana's Raj Gokal: In crypto, "it doesn't really matter what the regulators think"

I guess the "we want clear, sensible regulations" charade isn't needed anymore

SBF's master plan right now is to whine that his bribes didn't work on the Democrats and go "but I bribed the Republicans too!" and then wait expectantly

Tucker Carlson explicitly acknowledges the purpose of political megadonations

Coinbase Chief Legal Officer: the critics who think we’ve bought out the government are refusing to engage with the nuanced and complicated fact that Trump used to be anti-crypto before we started spending hundreds of millions of dollars on politics

The Hill

Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal again making oblique legal threats to chill criticism of Coinbase, suggesting to The Hill that it might be “defamatory” for me or Public Citizen to draw a line from their political spending to the current crypto regulatory environment.

If you’re going to be at SXSW, here’s where you can catch me:

March 7, 4pm: “Speaking Truth to Crypto Power” with Brian Merchant

scheduling conflicts for with my own panels will sadly keep me away from some talks that promise to be amusing, but i think i should be able to make it to the Andreessen Horowitz panel on “Little Tech”