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Just when you thought the world was about to forget the devastating collapse of FTX and the conviction of its once-untouchable founder Sam Bankman Freed, thanks to Tiffany Fung, the imprisoned former executive and others A photo of several prisoners was posted on Twitter. .
Fong herself has called attention to the absurdity of her involvement in the FTX drama (“It's like this random piece of shit has wandered into this very serious situation,” she said). rolling stone), secured that image after befriending Bankman Freed's former prisoner “G. Rock”. G. Rock called the FTX founder his “son” and called on US President Joe Biden to pardon his bearded friend.
Crypto Twitter, which has had enough scandals, has since enrolled in a course on the history of cryptocurrencies.
Perhaps the best thing to come out of the UK High Court trial over whether suing computer programmer Craig Wright is Bitcoin's pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto is that Nakamoto and his collaborators An archive of communications between the parties (including Hal Finney, the recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction, and Satoshi Nakamoto, none named Wright) was excavated and preserved as evidence. There is.
The first email exchange between Nakamoto and cryptologist and cypherpunk Adam Back, CEO and co-founder of Blockstream, dates back well before the launch of Bitcoin.
Then came the testimony and related email archives of computer scientist and software developer Marti Marmi, an early Bitcoin contributor known by the nickname Sirius.
Interestingly, while Bitcoin is today hailed as a solid investment that is also an anonymous means of payment (recognized by regulated financial markets in the form of the newly talked-about exchange-traded fund), Nakamoto believes that neither They are hesitant to promote the feature and are asking for it to be removed. Related promises from the Bitcoin website.
On the outskirts of Crypto Twitter, this corporate revamp was oddly tweeted as Greg “Garga” Solano announced he would be returning to Yuga Labs as CEO, replacing Daniel Alegre, who came over from Activision but had a short tenure. It's been a year since I took command.
“We want to unshackle Yuga’s BAYC team as much as possible to execute against that vision,” Garga wrote. To that end, he promised to reinvigorate Otherside, positioning it as the “living room of Web3” and leaning into more services. Games—from “mass market,” fun titles like Dookey Dash to more “crypto-native mechanics and platforms.”
Finally, Twitter was the source of a briefly circulating false rumor that Google was shutting down its hugely popular Gmail email service. No, Google isn't discontinuing his Gmail. That's the point the tech giant had to make. But the case has caused enough controversy that Elon Musk's fans are asking whether he had a competitive service in mind as part of his “apps for everything” ambitions.
“It's coming,” he said.
