If you do legal/policy work on social media and would like to try Bluesky, send me a DM for an invite.

So Balaji didn’t pay off his $2M bets, didn’t donate the full amount to charity, and says it was all a PR stunt? Say what you will about Do Kwon, but at least he paid off his losing bets and didn’t whine about it.

Correction! James Medlock confirms that the Balaji bet was paid off with half going to charity and half going to him, resulting in his desired tax rate of 70%. Well done.

Submitted without comment but with, and I can’t emphasize this enough, a hearty chuckle: nytimes.com/2023/05/25/us/…

You have to live here to understand the absolute savagery of this insult.

Arthur Hayes overpaying for magic beans is extremely on brand.

Bored apes getting liquidated? Sounds like a subprimate loan crisis.

The Ripple case certainly got a bit… juicier.

IMO Laura Shin and Frank Chaparro are fair, unbiased reporters. So when you score a massive unforced error on Frank’s show and then get combative over a softball question from Laura the problem isn’t biased journalists. The problem is that you need media training.

SBF bail revoked. Holy S - - -

I wondered how long it would take for Twitter to launch unblockable ad accounts and here we are. (For several years I’ve had a block list of ~5k ad accounts and enjoyed a largely ad-feee experience.) mashable.com/article/twitte…