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LRS51 Top 5 Video Edition
Back with the Top 5 countdown of a Long Reads Sunday whose big blazing theme was resurgent state power vis a vis crypto. We kicked it off with a discussion of essays from @wheatpond and @twobitidiot on that topic.
Back with the Top 5 countdown of a Long Reads Sunday whose big blazing theme was resurgent state power vis a vis crypto. We kicked it off with a discussion of essays from @wheatpond and @twobitidiot on that topic.
#4 on our list was Binance & the US. A new compliant exchange is coming but US users will have to vacate the main exchange soon. We discussed different takes, including @lawmaster’s thread on why this would likely be a painful move for the company.
No list of top threads and discussions from last week would be complete without @nic__carter’s 50+ unpopular Bitcoin opinions. Again, one of the themes in both that thread and another of his from this week was the question of state vs. crypto.
But of course, the couldn’t-miss-it-everyone-discussing-it news of the week was our #2 thread re: Facebook Libra partners. On Friday @fintechfrank aka Frankie Scoops came through again with a complete list of their launch partners.
#1 this week was the collective commentary across crypto about Facebook Libra and their partners, exemplified by Meltem’s great thread post CNBC visit and @SarahJamieLewis savage takedown of the announcement
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