The Weekend Shift: Bitcoin and Politics

Welcome to the 101st Weekend Shift!

What’s the deal? Over the weekend, we’ll update this post with some of the most interesting articles, podcasts, charts, and opinion pieces we’re too busy to write about.

OK, only crypto? Not necessarily. We do that Monday to Friday, so we try to explore new subjects on weekends.

Feel free to join in and submit entries on Twitter. Any topic is fair game.

January 14

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Scoop.

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This week’s issue of The Context.

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NEW: The £1m donation to Boris Johnson from a Thai-based crypto investor is the largest EVER to an individual MP on record.
It’s smashed the previous record by x6 – a £150k donation to Michael Gove in 2009.
Big BIG money. What could he possibly be planning to use it for? 🤔
— Tom Larkin (@TomLarkinSky) January 13, 2023

Oh my.

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Oops.

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.#SBF_FTX
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The exchange should never lose money if a customer gets liquidated. There is no excuse giving you hedge fund alameda an account with liquidation turned off.
— Arthur Hayes (@CryptoHayes) January 13, 2023

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Also this week.

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Where from?

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Vibes.

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Recovering?

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Classic.

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Less than two weeks after cementing another major increase to the Pentagon budget, lawmakers are now talking about going the opposite direction — and even raising the specter of across-the-board cuts that rocked the establishment just over a decade ago.https://t.co/MwGxgZraHt
— POLITICO (@politico) January 9, 2023

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Latest by Mark C.

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A set of classified documents had been discovered in the garage of President Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware home, locked up alongside his beloved Corvette https://t.co/PRwlzWAwIN
— TIME (@TIME) January 12, 2023

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Hal Finney was the first person to download the #Bitcoin software, the first cypherpunk to spot bugs for Satoshi Nakamoto and the first peer to trustlessly receive a transaction – all before #BTC had a quotable price.
Opinion.https://t.co/ILzvST3C6S
— CoinDesk (@CoinDesk) January 14, 2023

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Album of the week.

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