Just when you thought the world was ready to forget about FTX’s catastrophic collapse and the conviction of its once-untouchable founder Sam Bankman-Fried, photos of the imprisoned former executive and a handful of other inmates surfaced on Twitter, thanks to Tiffany Fong. .
Fong himself calls attention to the absurdity of his involvement in the FTX drama. rolling stone) obtained the images after befriending Bankman-Fried’s former inmate “G Lock”. G Lock called the FTX founder his “son” and called US President Joe Biden to ask for forgiveness for his now-bearded friend.
Enough of the scandal that cryptocurrency Twitter enrolled in a cryptocurrency history course.
Perhaps the best thing to come out of the UK High Court trial on whether the computer programmer who brought the suit, Craig Wright, is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, is that Nakamoto and his collaborators (the first Bitcoin) The recipients of the transaction, Hal Finney and no one else named Hal Finney and Wright, were unearthed and entered into evidence.
Initially, there were emails between Nakamoto and cryptographer and cypherpunk Adam Back (CEO and co-founder of Blockstream) well before the launch of Bitcoin.
Then came the testimony and related email archives from Martti Malmi, an early Bitcoin contributor, computer scientist and software developer who goes by the nickname Sirius.
Interestingly, while Bitcoin today is hailed as both an anonymous means of payment and a solid investment (recognised by regulated financial markets as a new and popular form of spot exchange-traded funds), Nakamoto is hesitant to promote either of those qualities and is seeking its removal. I requested it. Related promises on the Bitcoin website.
A strange corporate shake-up took place in the outskirts of Crypto Twitter as Greg “Garga” Solano announced his return as CEO of Yuga Labs. Daniel Alegre came from Activision, but lasted less than a year. He remained in command for a year.
News to share:
I am stepping down as CEO of Yuga Labs. Wylie and I appreciate all the contributions and operational rigor Daniel has brought to the company, and we appreciate his thoughtfulness and mentorship over the past year. I am…
— Garga.eth(Greg Solano) 🍌(@CryptoGarga) February 21, 2024
“We want to break the chains on Yuga’s BAYC team to best execute their vision,” Garga wrote. To do so, he promised to reinvigorate Otherside and position it as the “living room of Web3.” Games – From “mass market” and fun titles like Dookey Dash to “crypto-native mechanisms and platforms.”
Finally, Twitter was the source of a brief rumor that Google was shutting down its hugely popular Gmail email service. No, Google is not killing Gmail (something the tech giant had to assert). But it has sparked enough controversy that Elon Musk’s fans have been asking whether he has a competitive service in mind as part of his “any app” ambitions.
“It’s coming,” he said.