hear no evil, Celo evil, back no evil

Hey look, the backstory for the “Kickstarter is going to start doing…something…on the Celo blockchain” announcement has finally been dug up: They got $100 million from Andreessen Horowitz to say they were moving to Celo. Guess what blockchain that firm also invests in! Did you guess Celo? Wow, it’s almost like crypto has a pattern of pump-and-dumps that all work the same way. And it gets…

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I am very tired so here's a tiny crypto link post

I have made 2 whole phone calls today. Where’s my medal. Crypto rubbernecking opportunities are way down these days*, but here’s a few things I’ve saved: “Amy and David’s sure-fire* analyst predictions on crypto for 2024! (* within acceptable margins of error)” — plus a scorecard on last year’s predictions for 2023. David Gerard versus LLMs: “deeply disappointed, i asked gemini to write something…

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Yikes To Watch Out For

Just got phoned by a verrrry convincing scammer. (Related to the supermassive data breach reported this week? Seems likely.) The caller ID was [Bank I Use] Customer Service. Worth noting, I recently put the bill for the Leif & Thorn Volume 6 paperbacks on my [Bank] card, and that’s at least 10x pricier than anything else I’ve bought for a solid year (you know, since the Volume 5 paperbacks). So I…

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