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Balaji Srinivasan’s $1M Bitcoin Bet Could Be Right, but I Hope He’s Wrong
1.4.2023
Controversial ‘Tiktok Ban Bill’ Sparks Concerns Among Cryptocurrency and Technology Advocates
29.3.2023
Cryptocurrency and technology proponents have recently been discussing a new bipartisan bill called the “Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology (RESTRICT)” Act. In addition to targeting firms such as Kaspersky, Huawei,...
A Million-Dollar Bitcoin Bet, Financial Crisis Warnings Abound, and Ordinal Inscriptions Surpass 500,000 — Week in Review
26.3.2023
Venture capitalist Balaji Srinivasan says hyperinflation is happening now, and is making million-dollar bets that the price of bitcoin will reach $1M in 90 days. In related news, myriad voices from the world of finance are sounding off about inflation, recession, and a brewing economic crisis....
A Sudden Onset of Hyperinflation: What Will Happen to Bitcoin?
24.3.2023
Operation Chokepoint: Bitcoin Advocates Discuss US Government’s Alleged Mission to Eliminate Crypto Access
23.3.2023
Since the collapse of three American banks friendly to cryptocurrency businesses and the U.S. government’s insistence that crypto assets are “risky investments,” many speculators believe bureaucrats are purposely closing access to cryptocurrencies. Some refer to the U.S. government’s recent...
Balaji Srinivasan Says Hyperinflation Happening Now — Makes Million-Dollar Bets on Bitcoin Price Exceeding $1M in 90 Days
19.3.2023
Venture capitalist and angel investor Balaji Srinivasan says hyperinflation is happening now. Expecting the price of bitcoin to soon hit $1 million, he is making million-dollar bets that it will happen in 90 days. Srinivasan also advised investors to buy bitcoin, which he believes to be “a...
Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin’s Address Sells Trillions of Airdropped Tokens, Causes Illiquid Coin Prices to Plummet
8.3.2023
On March 7, onchain observers noticed that Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, had allegedly sold billions and trillions of airdropped ERC20 tokens, resulting in a gain of an estimated $700,000 in value. The market liquidity of the airdropped tokens was shallow, and the relatively unknown...
The Birth of the (Network) Nations
12.12.2022
Balaji Srinivasan says modern states are geographically concentrated but ideologically un-aligned. So what about states where online communities are in lockstep but geographically dispersed? That's the idea behind his new book, one of the big crypto-themed ideas of the last year
The Birth of the (Network) Nations
12.12.2022
Balaji Srinivasan says modern states are geographically concentrated but ideologically un-aligned. So what about states where online communities are in lockstep but geographically dispersed? That's the idea behind his new book, one of the big crypto-themed ideas of the last year
Balaji Srinivasan Says FTX Is a Preview of State Failure, USD Bank Accounts Could Be Frozen or Inflated to Worthlessness
12.12.2022
Angel investor Balaji Srinivasan says the collapse of crypto exchange FTX should be treated as “a preview of state failure.” He warned that one day U.S. dollar bank accounts “may be frozen or inflated to worthlessness,” emphasizing that the authorities “will show...
SBF Is Sleeping Better, Playing Video Games — New York Times Sam Bankman-Fried Interview Dunked on for Going Soft on FTX Co-Founder
15.11.2022
On Nov. 14, the New York Times (NYT) published a massive 2,200-word expose and interview with the former CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), and the article was criticized a great deal after it was published. The article noted that SBF would only offer “limited details about the central questions...
Web3 and Crypto Checking Account Startup Juno Raises $18M, Airdrops Reward Token JCOIN
2.10.2022
Juno, the Singapore-based Web3 crypto firm that offers customers checking accounts tied to crypto assets, has raised $18 million in a Series A financing round led by Parafi Capital. The fresh capital follows the startup’s seed round in 2019 when Juno raised $3 million from investors. Juno...
British Investment Bank HSBC Joins Metaverse via Sandbox, Animoca Brands Partnership
16.3.2022
The British multinational investment bank and financial services holding company, HSBC, has revealed it has partnered with the blockchain virtual gaming platform The Sandbox. According to the platform’s parent company, Animoca Brands, HSBC is the first global financial services provider...
Vitalik Buterin and Balaji Srinivasan Donate to Indian Covid Relief Fund Despite Country’s Intentions to Ban Cryptos
27.4.2021
The covid-19 crisis is worsening every day in India, as the country keeps hitting record daily numbers of cases and its death toll. The crypto community is starting to show solidarity with the country, as big players such as Ethereum co-founder and a well-known investor announced crypto donations...
Balaji Srinivasan: The Man Who Called COVID
8.12.2020
The former Coinbase CTO sounded the alarm early about the virus. More broadly, he’s emerged as a prolific and perceptive thinker about the trust and knowledge problems crypto aims to solve
Balaji Srinivasan, HashKey Back $2M Round in Twitter Privacy Tool Mask Network
17.11.2020
Mask Network, the protocol that allows users to send encrypted messages and even cryptocurrencies over Twitter, announced a funding round Tuesday
Andreessen Horowitz Publishes ‘Crypto Startup School’ Documentary
10.10.2020
The California-based private American venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, has published a documentary called “Crypto Startup School.” The documentary is different from other blockchain films, as the 30-minute video shows some of the procedures leveraged while invoking...
Tokenized BTC Crosses $1B Notional: Ethereum Cements Role as Bitcoin’s Main Sidechain
23.9.2020
Years ago when the Bitcoin network started suffering from higher fees and congestion, a number of bitcoiners advocated the use of sidechains in order to relieve the main chain’s duties. However, they didn’t realize that the Ethereum network would solidify its role as Bitcoin’s...
Climbing off Twitter on Scaffolds of Truth: Where Srinivasan and Benet Diverge
23.7.2020
Vitalik Buterin, Balaji Srinivasan and Juan Benet discussed the future, pitfalls and promise of decentralized social media
Demand for Charter Cities During Covid-19 Pandemic Grows Exponential – People Desire Semi-Autonomous Zones
17.6.2020
For quite some time now, a number of libertarians, bitcoin evangelists, and blockchain entrepreneurs have been promoting the idea of charter cities and seasteading concepts. One such project, Pronomos Capital, has raised $9 million from heavyweight investors like venture capitalist Peter Thiel....