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David Sirota

@davidsirota
34 posts
2026-03-04
Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions. [image]
2026-03-04 View on X
CoinDesk

Polymarket removes long-running markets that let users bet on if a nuclear weapon will be detonated, amid the Iran strikes; a 2025 contract had $1.7M+ in volume

Nuclear weapon-themed markets aren't new on the prediction market platform, but public outcry about the contracts has apparently forced the platform to delete them.

This could be the opening scene of Fallout, happening minutes before the birthday party.
2026-03-04 View on X
CoinDesk

Polymarket removes long-running markets that let users bet on if a nuclear weapon will be detonated, amid the Iran strikes; a 2025 contract had $1.7M+ in volume

Nuclear weapon-themed markets aren't new on the prediction market platform, but public outcry about the contracts has apparently forced the platform to delete them.

2024-04-28
🚨NEW: How Amazon Ate The Economy How Amazon became a monopoly using its size against sellers & customers — and how a new lawsuit is challenging the company.  Terrific reporting from the WSJ's Dana Mattioli & ISLR's Stacy Mitchell.  Please listen — and share on your own feed 👇
2024-04-28 View on X
Financial Times

A review of Dana Mattioli's The Everything War, which covers Lina Khan's antitrust battle against Amazon and makes a case that no company should be so powerful

And How It Became “Too Toxic to Touch” Todd Bishop / GeekWire : ‘The Everything War’: Inside Amazon with author and Wall Street Journal reporter Dana Mattioli The Logic on Crowdcas...

🚨NEW: How Amazon Ate The Economy How Amazon became a monopoly using its size against sellers & customers — and how a new lawsuit is challenging the company. Terrific reporting from the WSJ's @DanaMattioli & ISLR's @stacyfmitchell. Listen & share 👇 https://www.levernews.com/...
2024-04-28 View on X
Financial Times

A review of Dana Mattioli's The Everything War, which covers Lina Khan's antitrust battle against Amazon and makes a case that no company should be so powerful

And How It Became “Too Toxic to Touch” Todd Bishop / GeekWire : ‘The Everything War’: Inside Amazon with author and Wall Street Journal reporter Dana Mattioli The Logic on Crowdcas...

2024-04-27
🚨NEW: How Amazon Ate The Economy How Amazon became a monopoly using its size against sellers & customers — and how a new lawsuit is challenging the company.  Terrific reporting from the WSJ's Dana Mattioli & ISLR's Stacy Mitchell.  Please listen — and share on your own feed 👇
2024-04-27 View on X
Financial Times

A review of Dana Mattioli's The Everything War, which covers Lina Khan's antitrust battle against Amazon and makes a case that no company should be so powerful

Dana Mattioli's important book looks the winner-takes-all dynamic that built a competition-squashing behemoth

🚨NEW: How Amazon Ate The Economy How Amazon became a monopoly using its size against sellers & customers — and how a new lawsuit is challenging the company. Terrific reporting from the WSJ's @DanaMattioli & ISLR's @stacyfmitchell. Listen & share 👇 https://www.levernews.com/...
2024-04-27 View on X
Financial Times

A review of Dana Mattioli's The Everything War, which covers Lina Khan's antitrust battle against Amazon and makes a case that no company should be so powerful

Dana Mattioli's important book looks the winner-takes-all dynamic that built a competition-squashing behemoth

2023-04-13
This is a very corporate-media-centric view. It's true that giant conglomerates funded by governments, corporations & billionaires don't need such platforms because they have so much money. But — as much as I don't like this site — the end of Twitter will crush independent media. https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-13 View on X
New York Times

NPR decides to “no longer be active on Twitter” after the platform took “actions that undermine our credibility” by implying NPR is not editorially independent

The broadcaster said that the label undermined its credibility “by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.”

2023-03-14
Barney Frank supported the rollback of his own law while on the board of a bank that just collapsed https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-14 View on X
New York Times

Signature's and SVB's collapse was aided by GOP-led Dodd-Frank reforms that raised the “stress test” threshold from $50B to $250B, pushed for by SVB executives

Officials with Signature and Silicon Valley banks, which regulators seized in recent days, called for looser financial requirements for midsize banks.

2023-03-13
The rescue of SVB depositors is a reminder that the government can do big things very quickly when it wants to. So when it doesn't do big things that are necessary or does them slowly, that's not some accident. It's a conscious choice.
2023-03-13 View on X
U.S. Department of the Treasury

The US Treasury, Federal Reserve, and the FDIC say all Silicon Valley Bank depositors will be “fully” protected, and their money will be available on March 13

WASHINGTON, DC — The following statement was released by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen …

2023-03-12
wild to watch the VC industry that pushes deregulation and depletes the federal treasury with its use of the carried interest tax loophole now demand federal support https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-12 View on X
Bloomberg

As the “Bank of Startups”, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed from its exposure to interest-rate risk, a lack of diversity among depositors, and VC herd mentality

an unsecured illiquid claim on a failed bank. Absent @jpmorgan @citi or... https://twitter.com/... Bob Elliott / @bobeunlimited : Fed/FDIC decisions on SVB determine whether they r...

🚨BREAKING: Silicon Valley Bank's president successfully pressured lawmakers to weaken bank risk regs before his bank's collapse, according to records reviewed by @LeverNews. He touted the “low risk profile of our activities & business model.” https://www.levernews.com/...
2023-03-12 View on X
Bloomberg

As the “Bank of Startups”, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed from its exposure to interest-rate risk, a lack of diversity among depositors, and VC herd mentality

an unsecured illiquid claim on a failed bank. Absent @jpmorgan @citi or... https://twitter.com/... Bob Elliott / @bobeunlimited : Fed/FDIC decisions on SVB determine whether they r...

NEWS: Documents show Silicon Valley Bank's president personally pressured lawmakers to weaken bank regs. Some lawmakers objected. But the bank spent big on lobbying & regs were weakened. Today the bank became the 2nd largest bank collapse in US history. https://www.levernews.com/...
2023-03-12 View on X
Bloomberg

As the “Bank of Startups”, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed from its exposure to interest-rate risk, a lack of diversity among depositors, and VC herd mentality

an unsecured illiquid claim on a failed bank. Absent @jpmorgan @citi or... https://twitter.com/... Bob Elliott / @bobeunlimited : Fed/FDIC decisions on SVB determine whether they r...

2023-03-11
🚨BREAKING: Silicon Valley Bank's president successfully pressured lawmakers to weaken bank risk regs before his bank's collapse, according to records reviewed by @LeverNews. He touted the “low risk profile of our activities & business model.” https://www.levernews.com/...
2023-03-11 View on X
Bloomberg

As the “Bank of Startups”, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed from its exposure to interest-rate risk, a lack of diversity among depositors, and VC herd mentality

Programming note: Money Stuff was supposed to be off today, but: bank run!  —  SVB

NEWS: Documents show Silicon Valley Bank's president personally pressured lawmakers to weaken bank regs. Some lawmakers objected. But the bank spent big on lobbying & regs were weakened. Today the bank became the 2nd largest bank collapse in US history. https://www.levernews.com/...
2023-03-11 View on X
Bloomberg

As the “Bank of Startups”, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed from its exposure to interest-rate risk, a lack of diversity among depositors, and VC herd mentality

Programming note: Money Stuff was supposed to be off today, but: bank run!  —  SVB

2023-01-18
I found it - the single most perfect representation of the corporate media dystopia. A Washington media outlet hosting an event at Davos presented by a crypto platform, and the event is to tout the CEO of Uber. https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-18 View on X
Washington Post

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Circle and other crypto companies are hoping to rehabilitate the industry's image after FTX and find new investors

The World Economic Forum's annual gathering has become an unlikely destination for the crypto industry as it tries to raise its profile — and new funds

2022-12-13
really wild how many elites pretend to be scandalized by SBF who also weren't at all scandalized by Enron fleecing the country or by enormous Wall Street firms cratering the entire global economy and immiserating millions of people for the rest of their lives
2022-12-13 View on X
CNBC

Bahamas AG Ryan Pinder and US SDNY Attorney Damian Williams confirm Bahamas police arrested Sam Bankman-Fried, who is under indictment and could be extradited

- The cofounder and former CEO of bankrupt crypto trading firm FTX was arrested in the Bahamas after the U.S. attorney …

really wild how many elites pretend to be scandalized by SBF who also weren't at all scandalized by Enron fleecing the country or by enormous Wall Street firms cratering the entire global economy and immiserating millions of people for the rest of their lives
2022-12-13 View on X
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

The SEC charges Sam Bankman-Fried with defrauding investors and concealing diverting FTX customer funds to Alameda while raising $1.8B+ since at least May 2019

Defendant concealed his diversion of FTX customers' funds to crypto trading firm Alameda Research while raising more than $1.8 billion from investors

2022-08-18
We tried to warn everyone that the bill could end up being a no-strings-attached bailout for a handful of tech CEOs to enrich themselves and shareholders: https://www.levernews.com/... Nobody wanted to listen because everyone just wanted to cheer a Democratic “win.” https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-18 View on X
Financial Times

After booming demand during the pandemic and a rapid inventory build-up in 2022, Intel, Nvidia, SMIC, and TSMC face a sudden downturn, perplexing analysts

2022-06-07
America was once known for making actual things. Now after trade deals destroyed U.S. manufacturing, Congress is focused on boosting/deregulating fake “mining” of digital code for speculators, which also creates carbon emissions amid the climate crisis. https://www.politico.com/...
2022-06-07 View on X
Washington Post

Sens. Cynthia Lummis and Kirsten Gillibrand release their draft crypto regulation bill, seeking to empower the CFTC over the SEC, a win for the industry

The proposal would hand crypto oversight to the CFTC, which the sector views as friendlier than the SEC

2022-05-02
FTC staff upset that the new boss expects them to actually do their damn jobs https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
2022-05-02 View on X
The Information

Internal FTC survey: overall satisfaction among staff has dropped from 89% in 2020 to 60% in 2021; in an email, Lina Khan pledges to fix sinking staff morale

Under both Republican and Democratic administrations, the Federal Trade Commission has consistently ranked in the top five … Tweets: @cswilsonftc , @cswilsonftc , @heynottheface , ...