Mayor Eric Adams at a town hall last week: “I am the pilot, and you are all passengers. Pray for me to land the plane, cause there’s no parachutes on this plane, we’re all going down together.”

Is an ETF at odds with Bitcoin’s goal of breaking away from Wall Street? Absolutely. Is that same ETF also necessary for crypto to grow? Also yes. Opinion Emily Parker trib.al/75g5I6L

If you speak Chinese and want to discuss the ETF news please join CoinDesk中文 and Colin Wu Colin Wu, happening right now x.com/i/spaces/1mnxe… CoinDesk

Is a #bitcoinETF at odds with #Bitcoin’s goal of breaking away from Wall Street? Absolutely, Emily Parker writes. Is that same ETF also necessary for crypto to grow? Also yes. An opinion: coindesk.com/consensus-maga…

Maybe he shouldn’t have banned all those books

Getting ready for Chinese New Year. Beihai Park.

A fascinating perspective on a sleeping crypto dragon from Emily Parker And Chinese New Year just around the corner...🤔 coindesk.com/consensus-maga…

No government can stop a decentralized currency like #Bitcoin But in China, that’s only part of the story. Crypto trade is still alive in China because crypto is not completely banned there. My piece for CoinDesk coindesk.com/consensus-maga…

.Emily Parker always has her unique perspective backed by factual information which most western outlets misunderstood and miscommunicated.

Great clarity from Emily Parker – crypto trading was never totally banned in China. Emily highlights the difference between what is illegal and what is not protected by the law – we often conflate the two, but they are very different.

#mustread piece by the one-and-only Emily Parker for CoinDesk. Looks like we have sleeping dragon 🐉 in #Crypto in #China 🖱️⤵️ coindesk.com/consensus-maga… "Despite countless Western media outlets describing 🇨🇳 China’s crypto 'ban,' crypto trade is very much alive on mainland

“I know how easily people are killed in Russia,” Navalny told me years ago. “But in the end, it’s a question of choice. You can keep silent, you can emigrate or you can stay here and fight.”

A clear and brave message from Alexey Navalny in case the regime should kill him.

Russians in Moscow are lining up to lay flowers in memory of Alexei Navalny at a memorial to Gulag victims outside the FSB headquarters. Given the extent to which the Kremlin has suppressed all dissent since invading Ukraine, this is a not insignificant crowd.

People in Moscow today lining up to lay flowers for Navalny, the only form of silent protest the state will tolerate today. You can see how shell-shocked they are

No other post-Yeltsin political leader built from scratch the infrastructure of mobilization that Navalny built. No one else had the charisma. No one else fostered as many new voices and allowed them to thrive. /7

Navalny gave us a glimpse of what Russia could be - read more here from Emily Parker - cnn.com/2024/02/19/opi…

Interoperability will be key to tokenization taking over payments and financial markets. Worth taking the time to read through from Emily Parker.

you guys really gotta stop asking athletes what’s next after they win a medal at the Olympics