2026-01-24
If you think of Farcaster as the next traditional social media platform like X or Instagram, you're going to be wildly disappointed and perennially cynical. If you think of Farcaster as the best community of people building and experimenting onchain while sharing ideas of what
Bloomberg
R&D firm Merkle, which sold Farcaster, says it plans to repay VCs the $180M they invested in the social media project, and says Farcaster is not shutting down
2026-01-23
If you think of Farcaster as the next traditional social media platform like X or Instagram, you're going to be wildly disappointed and perennially cynical. If you think of Farcaster as the best community of people building and experimenting onchain while sharing ideas of what
Bloomberg
R&D firm Merkle, which sold Farcaster, says it plans to repay VCs the $180M they invested in the social media project, and says Farcaster is not shutting down
The software firm behind a crypto-oriented social-media platform plans to repay venture capitalists the $180 million …
2025-11-12
Coinbase reportedly walking away from BVNK acquistion is interesting. Wonder what happened? Feels like Visa or Citi would be likely candidates to swoop in here if BVNK does end up getting acquired - Stripe owns Bridge ($1.1B) - Mastercard chasing Zerohash ($1.5-2B) - BVNK
Fortune
Coinbase confirms that it called off acquisition talks with UK-based stablecoin infrastructure startup BVNK; a report had put the deal price at $1.5B to $2.5B
but faster, open, global rails. Lightning, Base, or something new? The smart money's picking its horse. Garrett Skrovina / @gskrovina : Coinbase reportedly walking away from BVNK a...
2023-01-20
The fact that IG has to introduce control features should signal that there's a bigger problem with young people and visual social media... This is like saying you don't like how candy makes you feel so we're allowing you to tinker with the ingredients to make it more addicting https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
Instagram rolls out Quiet Mode, which silences notifications, auto-replies to DMs, and informs friends, and plans to prompt teens to enable the feature at night
especially teens — manage their time and what they see on Instagram: - Quiet Mode - Hidden Words for Recommendations - Not Interested Multi-Select https://about.instagram.com/ ... ...
2022-11-11
The breakneck pace of this from the moment @Coindesk broke the Alameda balance sheet story to today is unfathomable. https://twitter.com/...
@sbf_ftx
[Thread] FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried apologizes, says he “fucked up” and his priority is “doing right by users”, plans to raise funds and close Alameda, and more
1) I'm sorry. That's the biggest thing. I fucked up, and should have done better.