BitBoy Crypto, SBF, and China

Welcome to the 90th 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.

October 22

1 hour ago

Lets start with the latest issue of The Context: Hex, EthereumPoW and the Death of Forks

1 hour ago

Most read article this week.

1 hour ago

no, it’s just to avoid tax headaches
— hayden.eth 🦄 (@haydenzadams) October 21, 2022

How about Eating your own dog food.

1 hour ago

UNI made the news this week.

1 hour ago

Tether manipulating the Leo price for its balance sheet is literally the only possibility for its price action and volume as Leo has constant 24h volume like a 100m mcap coin not like a 3+B one and is seemingly trading independent of the general crypto market. @Bitfinexed pic.twitter.com/iwi8xGjMD1
— Symbio (@NoCryptFish) October 22, 2022

“Probably nothing”

1 hour ago

This is wild.

1 hour ago

Former Chinese President Hu Jintao was unexpectedly escorted out of the closing ceremony of the Communist Party Congress on Saturday. An explanation was not given for the incident that took place in front of media during a highly choreographed event, https://t.co/HBHyVzRPmw
— Axios (@axios) October 22, 2022

More context here.

46 mins ago

In the meantime.

1 hour ago

This is still hilarious.

59 mins ago

Don’t know who BitBoy is? We got you covered.

59 mins ago

Here’s what triggered our ‘saviour’.

59 mins ago

How much of the civil service could be replaced by AI on a five year timeline?
— Preston Byrne (@prestonjbyrne) October 22, 2022

Good question.

58 mins ago

Lol.

57 mins ago

Album of the week.

57 mins ago

Absolutely wild.

56 mins ago

Sorry this was too dismissive. I think the article misses the mark on a number of important points—most importantly about what it takes to protect DeFi.
— SBF (@SBF_FTX) October 22, 2022

PR department joined the server.

55 mins ago

After aggressively farming many of DeFi’s most lucrative opportunities, @SBF_FTX is now suggesting his own industry standards, many of which go against crypto’s core ideals.
Sam says we need “customer protection”.
But from who?
rekt investigates.https://t.co/vv6lMWXD9I
— rekt (@RektHQ) October 21, 2022

Good read.

55 mins ago

Something worth catching up on.

54 mins ago

Aptos things.

51 mins ago

Nothing to see here.

51 mins ago

ICYMI

45 mins ago

Several renowned cryptographers, including @NickSzabo4 and Ralph Merkle, have claimed #Bitcoin would survive a nuclear war.
What do you think; Is Bitcoin nuclear-proof?
— Protos (@Protos) October 17, 2022

We ran a poll.

41 mins ago

Easy money.

40 mins ago

Goodbye Cable Bundle, Hello Streaming Bundle. Finding it tough to grow in a crowded streaming-video market, companies from Amazon to Disney to Paramount are looking to package their offerings through bundles and partnerships. @jtoonkel @bysarahkrouse https://t.co/RQsHSuthSS
— Amol Sharma (@asharma) October 7, 2022

Pass the remote control.

40 mins ago

Payback.

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Hans Niemann, the 19-year-old chess player at the heart of cheating allegations that have rocked the chess world, on Thursday filed a $100 million lawsuit accusing https://t.co/vRhfeTokg2 and world champion Magnus Carlsen of defamation and collusion. https://t.co/XsOCVdx6LU
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 21, 2022

Checkmate.

40 mins ago

What was once the largest international airline in the US, went bust in just sixty years. What happened to this twentieth-century pioneer? pic.twitter.com/EuMNwuHjOT
— Business Insider (@BusinessInsider) October 18, 2022

First in space.

39 mins ago

Elon Musk plans to cut nearly 75% of Twitter’s employee base of 7,500 workers if and when he becomes owner of the social media company, according to a Washington Post report. https://t.co/GYW2GNmBYp
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 21, 2022

Rough.

39 mins ago

Back to the future.

This post will be updated over the weekend. You can follow us on Twitter and Google News or listen to our investigative podcast Innovated: Blockchain City.

Source: https://protos.com/weekend-shift-bitboy-crypto-sbf-china/