/
Navigation
C
Chronicles
Browse all articles
C
E
Explore
Semantic exploration
E
R
Research
Entity momentum
R
N
Nexus
Correlations & relationships
N
~
Story Arc
Topic evolution
S
Drift Map
Semantic trajectory animation
D
P
Posts
Analysis & commentary
P
Browse
@
Entities
Companies, people, products, technologies
Domains
Browse by publication source
Handles
Browse by social media handle
Detection
?
Concept Search
Semantic similarity search
!
High Impact Stories
Top coverage by position
+
Sentiment Analysis
Positive/negative coverage
*
Anomaly Detection
Unusual coverage patterns
Analysis
vs
Rivalry Report
Compare two entities head-to-head
/\
Semantic Pivots
Narrative discontinuities
!!
Crisis Response
Event recovery patterns
Connected
Nav: C E R N
Search: /
Command: ⌘K
Embeddings: large
VOICE ARCHIVE

Matt O'Brien

@obsoletedogma
24 posts
2023-11-04
In the end, the only person SBF could fool was Michael Lewis
2023-11-04 View on X
TechCrunch

A jury finds Sam Bankman-Fried guilty on all seven counts of fraud and money laundering in the FTX trial; the judge sets SBF's sentencing for March 28, 2024

and what comes next Qadir AK / Coinpedia Fintech News : DOJ Cracks Down: Binance and Tether Face Terrorism Financing Charges PC Gamer : ‘The king of crypto’ found guilty of fraud, ...

2023-11-03
In the end, the only person SBF could fool was Michael Lewis
2023-11-03 View on X
TechCrunch

A jury finds Sam Bankman-Fried guilty on all seven counts of fraud and conspiracy in the FTX trial; the judge sets SBF's sentencing for March 28, 2024

Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, has been found guilty …

2023-07-03
Preventing people from using your app doesn't seem like a good way to get them to use your app.
2023-07-03 View on X
Waxy.org

A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits

For anyone keeping track, this isn't even the first time they've completely broken … Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Tweets Are Now Login-Walled  —  Like Šime Vidas, I have often linked o...

Preventing people from using your app doesn't seem like a good way to get them to use your app.
2023-07-03 View on X
TechCrunch

Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping

Censorship Expert Says Musk ‘Has Stepped on a Rattlesnake’ Jonas Mäki / Gamereactor UK : Twitter stops data collection by adding lots of restrictions Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegrap...

2023-07-02
Preventing people from using your app doesn't seem like a good way to get them to use your app.
2023-07-02 View on X
TechCrunch

Elon Musk says verified Twitter accounts are temporarily limited to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping

Twitter is putting limits to how many tweets its users can read as the Elon Musk-owned service suffers extended outage …

Preventing people from using your app doesn't seem like a good way to get them to use your app.
2023-07-02 View on X
Waxy.org

A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself due to a bug in Twitter's web app, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits

For the last two days, Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter is under attack from “several hundred organizations” who were conducting …

2023-04-03
It's like thinking you can solve climate change by getting rid of thermometers. Or, more accurately, that you can make more money until the crisis comes by getting rid of the thermometers, and then saying “who could have known there'd be a crisis?” https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-03 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: SVB bought long-term assets that paid more interest based on a misplaced profit-driven strategy, falling out of compliance with its internal risk model

and over the concerns of some staffers — SVB executives simply changed the model's assumptions, according to the former employees and securities filings.” https://www.washingtonpos...

2022-12-14
Translation: Musk will kowtow to the Chinese Communist government, and not stand up for free speech for dissidents https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-14 View on X
Wall Street Journal

As Tesla's stock drops 54%+ in 2022, on pace for its worst year on record, investors criticize Elon Musk's involvement in Twitter and his lack of focus on Tesla

Supporters of Tesla and Musk are asking questions about who is running the electric-vehicle maker

2022-11-17
It turns out that the guy who cynically admitted he was in the business of selling Ponzi schemes is now cynically admitting that his entire altruistic persona was a fraud https://www.vox.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-17 View on X
Vox

A chat via DM with SBF on why regulators “make everything worse”, FTX and Alameda's “messy accounting”, why he regrets filing for bankruptcy, ethics, and more

The fallen crypto CEO on what went wrong, why he did what he did, and what lies he told along the way.

It turns out that the guy who cynically admitted he was in the business of selling Ponzi schemes is now cynically admitting that his entire altruistic persona was a fraud https://www.vox.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-17 View on X
CoinDesk

Bankruptcy filings: FTX CEO John J. Ray III, who oversaw Enron, condemns SBF's “unprecedented” management, describing a “complete failure of corporate controls”

The former FTX CEO's unconventional style is under the spotlight as bankruptcy professionals pore over the exchange's collapse.

2022-11-14
At the end, FTX only had $900 million of easily sellable assets on hand against $9 billion in liabilities. It's so bad that the single biggest asset FTX has left is only worth 4% of what it's pretending it is. https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-14 View on X
CoinDesk

The Securities Commission of The Bahamas says it didn't order FTX to reopen withdrawals for Bahamas-based customers, refuting FTX's statement

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk :

2022-11-13
At the end, FTX only had $900 million of easily sellable assets on hand against $9 billion in liabilities. It's so bad that the single biggest asset FTX has left is only worth 4% of what it's pretending it is. https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-13 View on X
CoinDesk

The Securities Commission of The Bahamas says it didn't order FTX to reopen withdrawals for Bahamas-based customers, refuting FTX's statement

FTX said last week it had allowed Bahamas-based customers to withdraw funds at its regulators' request.  —  Crypto exchange FTX was not required …

2022-07-11
One of the only things crypto actually does do is make it easier to carry out ransomware attacks—like the one that has crippled Costa Rica's IT infrastructure & hurt a lot of vulnerable people https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-11 View on X
Financial Times

How the Conti ransomware group, whose attacks crippled Costa Rica's digital infrastructure for months, fell apart after one of its insiders betrayed it

2022-04-05
Black Mirror couldn't make up anything as dystopian as an obvious Ponzi scheme enlisting people from poor countries to play an online game for rentiers in rich countries who take half of their earnings. And Silicon Valley thinks this is the future of the internet! https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-05 View on X
VICE

A look at Axie Infinity “managers”, who loan in-game NFTs to other players in exchange for a cut of any profits and depend on a constant influx of new players

Managers in play-to-earn game Axie Infinity employ large teams of “scholars” who can't afford their own NFTs even as the game's economy spirals. Tweets: @bigblackjacobin , @tolstoy...

2021-06-18
Stablecoins, which are supposed to be backed by assets but often aren't, are a lot like fractional reserve banking. Crytpo is now learning what can happen when there's a run on a bank and there's no deposit insurance. Crypto is a not-so-free lesson in finance for libertarians. https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-18 View on X
Bloomberg

Mark Cuban calls for stablecoin regulation, after trading Iron Finance's algorithmic stablecoin DeFi Titanium, which then crashed from $60 to $0 in a day

H  —  ow Polygon's first billion-dollar protocol unraveled. AnTy / BitcoinExchangeGuide : “This One is on Mark Cuban,” says CT as He Calls for DeFi Regulation After Getting Rug Pul...

2021-03-14
People are paying $69 million for a website that says they “own” something that everyone can download, and Republicans think we need to eliminate the estate tax https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-03-14 View on X
Bloomberg

MetaKovan, an anonymous digital asset investor and founder of NFT focused crypto-based investment fund Metapurse, is the buyer of the $69M Beeple NFT

Sort Of Eileen Kinsella / Artnet News : ‘This Is Going to Be a Billion-Dollar Piece Someday’: The Buyer of the $69 Million Beeple NFT on Why It's the Greatest Artwork in a Generati...

2021-03-13
People are paying $69 million for a website that says they “own” something that everyone can download, and Republicans think we need to eliminate the estate tax https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-03-13 View on X
Bloomberg

MetaKovan, an anonymous digital asset investor and founder of NFT focused crypto-based investment fund Metapurse, is the buyer of the $69M Beeple NFT

A digital asset investor who goes by the handle Metakovan and refuses to give his full name, announced that he is the buyer …

2021-03-12
People are paying $69 million for a website that says they “own” something that everyone can download, and Republicans think we need to eliminate the estate tax https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-03-12 View on X
The Verge

Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist known as Beeple, sold an NFT of his work for $69M, through a first-of-its-kind auction at Christie's

what?! This story just keeps getting better and better 😂 https://www.coindesk.com/... Christopher Inks / @txwestcapital : I understand the market but still can't help but feel like...

2021-02-02
Facebook was already complicit in one genocide in Myanmar, and yet apparently it's learned nothing https://twitter.com/...
2021-02-02 View on X
NetBlocks

Network data indicates the onset of widespread internet disruptions in Myanmar amid reports of a military uprising and the detention of political leaders

NetBlocks :

2021-01-26
Reddit users out for the lulz > Efficient markets https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-26 View on X
Wired

A look at r/WallStreetBets, a 2M-member subreddit that helped push GameStop's stock to record highs and is now facing allegations of harassment

Over the past several weeks, GameStop stock has traded … Philip Stafford / Financial Times : GameStop and BlackBerry shares soar on amateur traders' fervour YouTube : The Big Short...