The Weekend Shift: FTX, Miners, Twitter Files

Welcome to the 97th 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.

December 10

55 mins ago

Latest issue of The Context by Bennett Tomlin.

The Block

54 mins ago

SBF ties everywhere.

52 mins ago

1) I’m absolutely gutted by this news, which was briefed to the company this afternoon.
Underpinning my shock are feelings of utter disgust and betrayal by Mike’s actions, greed, lack of disclosure. He’s literal scum. He kept every single one of us in the dark. https://t.co/jIZCxtHrfc
— Frank Chaparro (@fintechfrank) December 9, 2022

45 mins ago

The Chinese police arrested a gang of 63 people who used cryptocurrency to launder money, involving an amount of 1.7 billion US dollars, and some of the main suspects were arrested from Thailand. https://t.co/6bOg186P8Y
— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) December 10, 2022

Whoa.

45 mins ago

A group of media outlets—Bloomberg, the NYT, Dow Jones & Co, and the Financial Times—just filed a motion to intervene in the FTX case, requesting that FTX be required to unseal customer and creditor lists.
— Molly White (@molly0xFFF) December 9, 2022

Spicy.

42 mins ago

Argo Blockchain, the #Bitcoin issuer, run by at least one Vancouver person, temporarily cease traded. It alleges it mines Bitcoin in northern Quebec, which I have doubts about, after speaking to people in that town. https://t.co/NbKpjpHrcQ
— Christine Duhaime (@cduhaime) December 9, 2022

15 mins ago

UK government approves first new coal mine in decades despite concerns among Conservative MPs and experts about climate impact https://t.co/98vogPuYef
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) December 7, 2022

41 mins ago

Australian crypto exchange Digital Surge has just entered into voluntary administration. It committed the sin of storing customers’ crypto on another exchange, in this case FTX, instead of using its own wallets or a legitimate custodian:https://t.co/MEZOT1ulIi pic.twitter.com/e58FxuYlTp
— John Paul Koning (@jp_koning) December 9, 2022

41 mins ago

3 hours 46 minutes long.

Twitter Files

32 mins ago

1. THREAD: The Twitter Files
THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP
Part One: October 2020-January 6th
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) December 9, 2022

32 mins ago

Twitter Files release is most beneficial to humanity not because of what it revealed, but because it promotes a culture of transparency.
Transparency is good for everyone long-term. It helps fight corruption and influence of ideological and political bias, left or right.
— Lex Fridman (@lexfridman) December 9, 2022

So today’s big reveal… that the guy everyone keeps claiming MUST HAVE moderated in a biased way pushed back on an attempt to ding Trump… because.. he didn’t actually violate the rules.
Once again, the Twitter Files keeps making the old T&S regime look SUPREMELY COMPETENT. https://t.co/lDo1TFztOm
— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) December 9, 2022

30 mins ago

This.

30 mins ago

JUST IN
9 mins ago

Album of the week: One day it’ll all make sense

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.

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