How will recent Supreme Court decisions affect the crypto world? Also, more absurdity from the crypto lobby, and some new regulatory actions. Catch up in my latest newsletter: www.citationneeded.news/issue-61/
Featured this week: Barbara Fried called up her son and asked if he could be a dear and dig around in the couch cushions for a spare $92k (in under 24 hours)
Not satisfied with only lying about how much their “grassroots” crypto advocacy group has raised, Coinbase is now also fudging the numbers around how many crypto pizza parties they prompted.
And finally, an Iranian official worries that the (Russian) Hamster Kombat crypto-clicker game is a part of the West’s “soft war” to interfere with elections by distracting Iranians.
Reminds me of how all the "Effective Altruism" movement ever seemed to do with its backer's great wealth was buy castles at which they planned to hold conferences on the theme of how great Effective Altruism was going to be, and give small grants to writers so they could talk about the same thing.