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Just when you thought the world was ready to forget the disastrous collapse of FTX and the condemnation of its once-disgraced founder, Sam Bankman Fried, a photo of the imprisoned former CEO with a handful of other inmates surfaced on Twitter, thanks to Tiffany Fung. .
“It's like this random girl is wandering into this very dangerous situation,” said Fung, who herself calls attention to the absurdity of her involvement in the FTX drama. Rolling Stone), obtained the photo after befriending former Bankman-Fried prison inmate “J Luke,” who referred to the FTX founder as his “son” and issued a plea for US President Joe Biden to pardon his now-bearded friend.
Having been sufficiently stirred up by the Crypto Twitter scandal, he signed up for a course on the history of cryptocurrencies.
Perhaps the best thing to come out of the UK High Court trial into whether litigating computer programmer Craig Wright was the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, are archives of correspondence between Nakamoto and his collaborators (which include first Bitcoin transaction recipient Hal Finney and ). No one named Wright) was discovered and entered into evidence.
First came emails between Nakamoto and crypto expert and cypherpunk Adam Back — CEO and co-founder of Blockstream — dating back well before Bitcoin's launch.
Then came the certificate and associated email archives of computer scientist and software developer Marty Malmi, an early Bitcoin contributor who went by the nickname Sirius.
Interestingly, while Bitcoin today is hailed as a solid investment (recognized by regulated financial markets in the form of new spot and exchange-traded funds) and also an anonymous means of payment, Nakamoto has been reluctant to promote either attribute, and has asked for the promises to be removed. Link from Bitcoin website.
On the outskirts of Crypto Twitter, it was strange that there was a shake-up at the company that prompted tweeters to tweet, as Greg “Garga” Solano announced that he would be returning to Yuga Labs as its CEO – replacing Daniele Allegri, who came from Activision but lasted less time. From a year ago.
“We want to unshackle the BAYC team at Yuga as much as possible to execute against its vision,” Garga wrote. To do this, he promises to revitalize Otherside and position it as “Web3's living room,” relying more on games — from “mass market” and fun titles like Dookey Dash to more “native coding mechanics and platforms.”
Finally, Twitter was at the root of a brief false rumor that Google had decided to shut down its popular email service, Gmail. No, Google isn't killing Gmail — something the tech giant had to confirm — but it has sparked enough controversy that it has Elon Musk's fans wondering whether he has a competing service in mind as part of his “everything in the app” ambitions.
“It's coming,” he said.
