The Weekend Shift: Crypto, Billionaires, Climate Change

Welcome to the 85th 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.

September 17

1 hour ago

Starting off with a long read.

1 hour ago

ICYMI: More talk on our Merge coverage.

1 hour ago

With episode 6 and 7 dropping out soon, you might want to catch up on Innovated: Blockchain City.

59 mins ago

ICYMI

57 mins ago

The mysterious deaths continue.

57 mins ago

Not so hilarious if you’re affected, we bet.

56 mins ago

Curious.

56 mins ago

Figma CC?

56 mins ago

One of the most notable stories this week.

55 mins ago

The UK is projected to spend an estimated $9 million on Queen Elizabeth’s funeral, amid warnings the country is heading toward recession and skyrocketing costs of living.
Over 2 million people in the UK cannot afford to eat every day, surveys show. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/psgpVRAMbR
— AJ+ (@ajplus) September 13, 2022

Money well spent?

52 mins ago

British royals have an estimated $28 billion fortune, including private land holdings and wealth accrued from colonial theft and the legacy of slavery.
King Charles inherited $500M from the queen without paying inheritance tax.
But taxpayers will pay for the queen’s funeral. pic.twitter.com/IV4YbcPQva
— AJ+ (@ajplus) September 13, 2022

Quick maths.

55 mins ago

“Serious” work.

55 mins ago

Coal companies have long disavowed responsibility for the waste they produce, abandoning mine land and washing their hands of the duty to clean up. A new market for coal waste might allow mining companies to benefit from these pollutants. https://t.co/2su97CQPfo
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) September 16, 2022

Recharge.

54 mins ago

Horrible scenes as fire engulf a tall building (appearing to be of China Telecom) in Changsha, capital of central Hunan province, on Friday, Sept. 16 afternoon.
(video from random WeChat group) pic.twitter.com/gKc0ZfacNC
— Zichen Wang (@ZichenWanghere) September 16, 2022

Horrible.

54 mins ago

Justin Sun’s Poloniex exchange suddenly stated that it has decided to choose EthereumFair, a forked chain launched by the ClassZZ, as the main chain of ETHW tokens. ETF is not the ETHPOW that @ChandlerGuo and others have promoted before. https://t.co/qMk9drZbW1
— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) September 15, 2022

Classy.

53 mins ago

my brother in christ you went on stage with an actual dictator and announced a billion dollars sci-fi volcano city how dare you tweet about theranos lmaoooo pic.twitter.com/eSSG361seI
— Udi Wertheimer (@udiWertheimer) September 14, 2022

Burn?

52 mins ago

So, Pierre Poilievre is now fundraising off David Akin.
In an email this evening, Poilievre asked followers to give him money so he can “go around the biased media.”
(Worth noting Poilievre’s team does not repeat in writing his earlier claim that @davidakin is a “Liberal”). pic.twitter.com/iFhzgMWzrq
— Luke LeBrun (@_llebrun) September 14, 2022

Hm.

51 mins ago

Kanye West told Gap that he is terminating their partnership, saying the company breached an agreement by not releasing apparel and opening stores as planned https://t.co/8mnBFWniqR
— WSJ Business News (@WSJbusiness) September 15, 2022

Ye.

50 mins ago

Let them eat organic.

50 mins ago

The GOAT.

50 mins ago

Album of the week.

49 mins ago

To successfully deploy a mentoring program, organizations could analyze how new hires do in the first two weeks and aim their efforts on the weakest performers. https://t.co/OjS5scTyF7
— Harvard Business Review (@HarvardBiz) September 15, 2022

Should it though?

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/the-weekend-shift-crypto-billionaires-climate-change/