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25 years for Sam Bankman-Fried
"The judgment has to adequately reflect the seriousness of the crime, and this was a very serious crime."
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Sam Bankman-Fried maintains that his crimes were victimless and resulted in zero losses, and therefore warrant only six years of imprisonment. Prosecutors argue that 40–50 years are justified.
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Euphoria has risen along with crypto prices, but nothing has changed from the last bubble.
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Bitcoin prices are spiking. Are we in for another round of crypto mania? Also, Sam Bankman-Fried doesn't want to go to jail for 100 years.
"Ownership" means ten different things to ten different people. Let's talk about what we actually want.
Prominent crypto venture capitalist Chris Dixon provides an unconvincing bible for blockchain solutionists.
Silicon Valley's "effective altruism" and "effective accelerationism" only give a thin philosophical veneer to the industry's same old impulses.
From billions of mysterious Tethers to the apparent identity theft of Thai sex workers, many questions remain about what happened at Bankman-Fried's crypto empire.
Venture capital firm and crypto pusher Andreessen Horowitz wants you to keep buying crypto, and is not above publishing blatant falsehoods to convince you to do so.
The embarrassing investor meltdown surrounding Silicon Valley Bank should drive us to consider new models.
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It's been a quiet few weeks in the world of crypto disasters... too quiet.
"Ownership" means ten different things to ten different people. Let's talk about what we actually want.
Prominent crypto venture capitalist Chris Dixon provides an unconvincing bible for blockchain solutionists.
Governments seize huge quantities of bitcoin, and a few people seem to be yearning for the days of peak crypto mania.
Bitcoin ETP approval, God-sent crypto scammers, and more trouble in Justin Sun's world.
In December, not long after the Department of Justice announced charges against cryptocurrency giant Binance and its CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, I started writing up an overview of everything that had happened to the company over the past few years. I'd written separately about a lot
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Bitcoin ETF fakeouts, imaginary CEOs, and a bridge hack make for an eventful start to the new year.
Citation Needed is no longer hosted on Substack. Welcome to my antifascist bar.
All my "absolute top tier apes" gone, anti-rug-pull rug pulls, and an update on this newsletter.
A collective letter to Substack leadership.