Video: Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes
This is the transcript for “Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes”, a video about how to get started editing Wikipedia.
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Video: The charges against Binance
This is the script for “The charges against Binance”, a video about the legal actions against Binance and its former CEO, Changpeng Zhao.
Annotated: Sam Bankman-Fried’s “FTX Pre-Mortem Overview”
Sam Bankman-Fried has apparently decided to fill his time spent confined to his parents’ Palo Alto home with blogging, perhaps in the hopes that he can just blog his way out of the massive criminal and civil penalties he’s facing.
Livetweets of the December 14, 2022 Senate Banking Committee hearing on FTX
Here's an easier-to-follow version of my tweet thread of the December 14, 2022 Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing on the FTX collapse. I also recapped this hearing in an issue of my newsletter.
Livetweets of the December 13, 2022 House Financial Services Committee hearing on FTX
Here's an easier-to-follow version of my tweet thread of the December 13, 2022 House Financial Services Committee hearing on the FTX collapse. I also recapped this hearing in an issue of my newsletter.
Is web3 bullshit? (Transcript)
Last year I started to see a lot of talk about blockchains and crypto. In the mainstream media, on social media, with colleagues and friends. And that was nothing new. I mean, I’d seen crypto hype cycles before, and as someone who is not super interested in speculative financial investments it just sort of wasn’t my thing. But this time, the message had really changed. There was this new word…
Blockchain solutionism (Lecture transcript)
This is a transcript of a guest lecture I gave at the University of Texas at Austin on September 21, 2022. This lecture was for a course in the School of Design and Creative Technologies called "Anti-Solutionism". There is also a Q&A portion at the end. The recording is available on YouTube. The Google Slides are also publicly available (as well as embedded inline below as images).
Announcing the Whitespace newsletter and a Patreon
I’ve launched a Substack,[^fn1] and would be delighted if you would consider supporting or sharing.
Statement to the Financial Stability Oversight Council: Regulating digital assets
I was asked to give a statement to a Financial Stability Oversight Council discussion that stemmed from the Executive Order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets. I was asked to specifically address: technological risks posed by digital assets, factors that would drive substantially greater adoption of digital assets, and actions that financial regulators could take to address…
Excerpts from letters to the judge in the Voyager Digital bankruptcy case
Contents Background Excerpts People with funds locked in Voyager Digital have been sending letters to the judge presiding over the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. These are excerpts from those letters. It’s important to understand that schemes like this in the cryptocurrency industry are hurting real people who are often suffering losses they can’t afford. Regardless of what you may believe about…