TODAY join me, World Bank ex-Treasurer Arunma Oteh OON & co-authors of Chain Reaction: How Blockchain Will Transform the Developing World at our #booklaunch. 5pmBST / 12 EST Register here: register.gotowebinar.com/register/25046…

I’ve just instructed the president of LaGeo (our state-owned geothermal electric company), to put up a plan to offer facilities for #Bitcoin mining with very cheap, 100% clean, 100% renewable, 0 emissions energy from our volcanos 🌋 This is going to evolve fast! 🇸🇻

Most people who say “Music used to be better,” are really saying “It felt good being young.”

THE LAST FOURTH OF JULY

Eat less junk food. Give up smoking. Exercise more. Drink less alcohol. Eat healthy food. Go outside more. Lose weight. Protect the NHS.

can you name the owners of the world’s largest media companies? when is the last time you read an article about them? fascinating to look at incentives and how information in our society gets prioritized, positioned, and distributed

I think holding warming to 2 or 2.5°C is unlikely, and we're likely to hit 3.5, because I'm a political scientist, looking at responses of countries around the world. China & India are trying to catch up to our living standards. #QuickTake GZERO Media gzeromedia.com/quick-take/

This is worth reading and considering. opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/…

I bought my first #RAREPEPE at the Roaring Auctions 🇦🇺 🖼🔨🏛️ x Future Art LIVE auction in April this year. No idea at the time what I was bidding but @robnessofficial was bidding so I was in. I learnt alot about the whole #RarePepe community from RarePepeNews

CNBC: Grayscale Investments plans on filing an application to convert the world’s biggest bitcoin fund into a spot ETF early next week, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. #bitcoin

Blockchain games only constitute roughly 10% of grey market sales but have an estimated CAGR of a staggering 100% between 2021 and 2025, which would increase the total size of the blockchain segment from $1.5B to $50B. Source: BITKRAFT and Naavik.

The myth of "ETH killers" — why demand for blockchains will always outpace supply 🧵

Vegans aren’t making the world a better place | John Lewis-Stempel unherd.com/2022/01/what-v…

The viewooor vs the Likoooor

I think folks are sleeping on one of the biggest and most obvious "zero interest rate phenomena" that's going to get vaporized slowly and then all at once: Andreessen Horowitz Here's my thesis:

I'd like to formally thank my peers in the venture community whose stellar leadership over the past 48 hours triggered a run on deposits at Silicon Valley Bank, ultimately toppling one of the most important institutions in our ecosystem.

We learned that $USDC is backed by cash held in banks, except... banks don't actually hold that cash.

ERA OF DIGITAL CRISIS A digital crisis creates real world destruction at a breathtaking pace. It has brought governments, banks, and societies to their knees already. The internet spills out into the real world. This speed of information and reaction has never been possible

52 years ago today, President Nixon suspended convertibility of the US dollar to gold.

This is the single most important ratio in global finance right now. If it continues for the foreseeable future, the world will change and there will be no going back. (h/t Matt Hougan)