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Aly-Khan Satchu

@alykhansatchu
43 posts
2022-01-06
The dog nosed around in the vegetable beds. FarmVille, our host confirmed pleasantly—it was a game, a farming simulator, played by tens of millions of people on Facebook—before asking if we might be interested in some eggs. @NewYorker https://www.newyorker.com/...
2022-01-06 View on X
New Yorker

If the metaverse takes off, it could take cues from today's privatized, centralized, financialized tech ecosystem and echo the development of play-to-earn games

it was a game, a farming simulator, played by tens of millions of people on Facebook—before asking if we might be interested in some eggs. @NewYorker https://www.newyorker.com/... ...

Watching Zuckerberg stroll through a blandly monied virtual set, appointed, as if from a drop-down menu, with books and trinkets and unused-looking sports equipment, I wondered if there were people who wanted this, or would find this vision exciting https://www.newyorker.com/...
2022-01-06 View on X
New Yorker

If the metaverse takes off, it could take cues from today's privatized, centralized, financialized tech ecosystem and echo the development of play-to-earn games

it was a game, a farming simulator, played by tens of millions of people on Facebook—before asking if we might be interested in some eggs. @NewYorker https://www.newyorker.com/... ...

The term “metaverse” itself, which has its origins in dystopian science fiction, has been aggressively promoted by companies with worlds to sell Letter from Silicon Valley Money in the Metaverse @NewYorker https://www.newyorker.com/...
2022-01-06 View on X
New Yorker

If the metaverse takes off, it could take cues from today's privatized, centralized, financialized tech ecosystem and echo the development of play-to-earn games

it was a game, a farming simulator, played by tens of millions of people on Facebook—before asking if we might be interested in some eggs. @NewYorker https://www.newyorker.com/... ...

In recent months, the metaverse has been described as a kind of online place, combining virtual reality, augmented reality, the Internet, entertainment experiences, gaming, and remote work. @NewYorker https://www.newyorker.com/... The Way we live now https://www.rich.co.ke/...
2022-01-06 View on X
New Yorker

If the metaverse takes off, it could take cues from today's privatized, centralized, financialized tech ecosystem and echo the development of play-to-earn games

it was a game, a farming simulator, played by tens of millions of people on Facebook—before asking if we might be interested in some eggs. @NewYorker https://www.newyorker.com/... ...

2022-01-03
The goal is to encourage already widespread self-censorship among Chinese people on global social media, she said, likening the purging of critics to an overactive lawn mower. @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/... https://www.rich.co.ke/...
2022-01-03 View on X
New York Times

Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations

One video recording, provided by a Chinese student living in Australia, showed how the police in her hometown had summoned her father, called her with his phone and pushed her to remove her Twitter account. @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/... https://www.rich.co.ke/...
2022-01-03 View on X
New York Times

Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations

They now turn to rule over the people by means of what could be dubbed “big data totalitarianism” and “WeChat terror.” https://www.rich.co.ke/... A Digital Manhunt: How Chinese Police Track Critics on @Twitter & Facebook @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-01-03 View on X
New York Times

Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations

Michel Foucault describes the prisoner of a panopticon as being at the receiving end of asymmetrical surveillance: “He is seen, but he does not see; he is an object of information, never a subject in communication.” @hervegogo https://twitter.com/... https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-01-03 View on X
New York Times

Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations

Now violations as simple as a post of a critical article on Twitter — or in the case of 23-year-old Ms. Chen, quoting, “I stand with Hong Kong” — can bring swift repercussions @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/... “big data totalitarianism” & “WeChat terror.” https://www.rich.co.ke/...
2022-01-03 View on X
New York Times

Investigation: how China identifies, tracks, and pressures its critics on Facebook and Twitter, including Chinese living abroad and citizens of other nations

2021-10-08
Tether Holdings started putting out a huge amount of digital coins There are now 69 billion Tethers in circulation, 48 billion of them issued this year. That means the company supposedly holds a corresponding $69 billion in real money to back the coins https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2021-10-08 View on X
Bloomberg

A deep dive on Tether, which issued 48B coins this year, as regulators struggle to understand its cash reserves, organizational structure, and other details

something money-market funds avoid.” By ⁦@ZekeFaux⁩ https://www.bloomberg.com/... Daniel Viola / @dannyviola : Great investigation into the likely Ponzi scheme that is Tether: http...

The chief executive officer listed on Tether's website, J.L. Van der Velde, is a Dutchman who lives in Hong Kong and seems never to have given an interview or spoken at a conference. @BW https://www.bloomberg.com/... The Lotos-eaters https://rich.co.ke/...
2021-10-08 View on X
Bloomberg

A deep dive on Tether, which issued 48B coins this year, as regulators struggle to understand its cash reserves, organizational structure, and other details

something money-market funds avoid.” By ⁦@ZekeFaux⁩ https://www.bloomberg.com/... Daniel Viola / @dannyviola : Great investigation into the likely Ponzi scheme that is Tether: http...

2021-08-23
The story goes that at @Davos Xi was kept waiting for an hour by @JustinTrudeau and Trudeau told him it was because Jack was back to back and he could not afford not to meet with Jack. I suspect the Fall began there. https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-23 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources detail how Jack Ma's relationship with China's leadership soured, as he failed to keep up with Beijing's shifting views and tuned out warnings for years

2021-08-22
The story goes that at @Davos Xi was kept waiting for an hour by @JustinTrudeau and Trudeau told him it was because Jack was back to back and he could not afford not to meet with Jack. I suspect the Fall began there. https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-22 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources detail how Jack Ma's relationship with China's leadership soured, as he failed to keep up with Beijing's shifting views and tuned out warnings for years

The billionaire entrepreneur matched the heights of America's tech legends but failed to heed warnings that Chinese leader Xi Jinping still called the shots Tweets: @dilipthecheria...

2021-07-09
The idea for Tokensniffer came to him after he fell victim to rug pulls himself. His website scrapes data about new meme tokens from popular social media channels and scans the source code. @business https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://www.rich.co.ke/...
2021-07-09 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at TokenSniffer, a website tracking cryptocurrency scams that claims to have tracked 42,071 tokens and 2,250 scams or hacks as of June 16

Billions are getting pilfered annually through a variety of cryptocurrency scams.  The way things are going, this will only get worse.

So far this year, over $2.6 billion has been grabbed, according to Chainanalysis, a New York-based blockchain researcher. in fact represent a marked decline from 2019, when fraudsters walked away with an estimated $9 billion. @business https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2021-07-09 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at TokenSniffer, a website tracking cryptocurrency scams that claims to have tracked 42,071 tokens and 2,250 scams or hacks as of June 16

Billions are getting pilfered annually through a variety of cryptocurrency scams.  The way things are going, this will only get worse.

Some crypto wolves work alone, others in packs, and almost all use online aliases. @business https://www.bloomberg.com/... “All stories are about wolves. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves” @MargaretAtwood
2021-07-09 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at TokenSniffer, a website tracking cryptocurrency scams that claims to have tracked 42,071 tokens and 2,250 scams or hacks as of June 16

Billions are getting pilfered annually through a variety of cryptocurrency scams.  The way things are going, this will only get worse.

Ghrist says he wanted to trade the momentary 1000% gain of a coin launch called Space Jupiter but couldn't sell for about 20 minutes. He says the creators of the coin eventually re-enabled selling, but only after the coin price had slumped @business https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2021-07-09 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at TokenSniffer, a website tracking cryptocurrency scams that claims to have tracked 42,071 tokens and 2,250 scams or hacks as of June 16

Billions are getting pilfered annually through a variety of cryptocurrency scams.  The way things are going, this will only get worse.

The rug pull is only one play. There's also the gentler soft rug, the crypto version of getting ghosted on Hinge. And the honey pot, which functions like a trap. https://www.bloomberg.com/... The Lotos-eaters https://rich.co.ke/... “Courage!” he said, and pointed toward the land
2021-07-09 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at TokenSniffer, a website tracking cryptocurrency scams that claims to have tracked 42,071 tokens and 2,250 scams or hacks as of June 16

Billions are getting pilfered annually through a variety of cryptocurrency scams.  The way things are going, this will only get worse.

The list on https://tokensniffer.com/ runs on and on. Six minutes ago, CatRocket. One hour ago, MoonMiner. Three hours ago, GoldenShiba. Four hours ago, EverRise. So it goes, hour after day after week after month @business https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://www.rich.co.ke/...
2021-07-09 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at TokenSniffer, a website tracking cryptocurrency scams that claims to have tracked 42,071 tokens and 2,250 scams or hacks as of June 16

Billions are getting pilfered annually through a variety of cryptocurrency scams.  The way things are going, this will only get worse.

He was monitoring Safetrade on https://poocoin.com/, a scatologically named crypto platform, when the price collapsed to nearly zero in less than a minute. He checked the Safetrade Telegram group. Deleted. Members had been kicked out. @business https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2021-07-09 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at TokenSniffer, a website tracking cryptocurrency scams that claims to have tracked 42,071 tokens and 2,250 scams or hacks as of June 16

Billions are getting pilfered annually through a variety of cryptocurrency scams.  The way things are going, this will only get worse.