The University of Chicago, as usual, striking the right balance. Worth reading in full. It is exactly right.

President Alivisatos’ Note on the Encampment (April 29, 2024)

Dear Members of the University Community, Just a few hours ago, a group of students established an…

The mortar attack on the shore-based component of the temporary humanitarian pier in Gaza being constructed by the United States is likely an act by Hamas, though no group has claimed responsibility. There was some misreporting of what took place as an attack on the US ship off…

Looking at the merkle branches that mining pools send to miners as part of stratum jobs, it's clear that the BTCcom pool, Binance pool, Poolin, EMCD, Rawpool, and possibly Braiins* have exactly the same template and custom transaction prioritization as AntPool.

Update on Morgan Stanley potentially allowing their 15,000 brokers to solicit client purchases of spot btc ETFs…

“We are going to make sure everybody has access to it. We just want to do it in a controlled way.”

No view on price, but it’s still *so* early.

via AdvisorHub

Smart take. I’m ambivalent. Definitely some rational economic agreements that will never happen without non-competes (like my phenomenal subsidized option market making education at SIG), but in aggregate they may be value destroying due to the asymmetry between employer and…

I’m too old to throw my hat in the crypto influencer boxing ring, but I’m ready to accept challenges in an influencer pretzel splitting title fight. reddit.com/r/nextfuckingl…

From September 2017. Don’t fall for word salad money grabs.

Every crypto fund manager who’s survived multiple cycles has learned the same lesson - we need to “touch grass” and maintain healthy physical and mental habits to sustain productivity. It’s a marathon. One thing necessary for that physical and mental health that I was missing…

Centrifuge has raised $15M to scale the adoption of institutional DeFi.

With this round of Series A funding secured, we're excited to share our key focuses for Centrifuge's development, innovation, and adoption across the worlds of traditional and decentralized finance: ↓…

The UN is a political body like any other. I’m happy it exists and think it does more good than harm, but like any government it’s often/mostly run by special interests. In the case of the UN, those special interests are mostly those of the security council members (including…