2022-06-14
Sad day for our industry. My DMs are open for any affected Coinbase employees looking for work. There are so many projects in this space that would be thrilled to have you, especially in the @variantfund portfolio 💪🏼 https://twitter.com/...
The Coinbase Blog
Coinbase plans to reduce its headcount by ~18%, or ~1,100 people, seeking to “stay healthy during this economic downturn”, saying the company “grew too quickly”
Earlier today, I shared the following note with all Coinbase employees. — Team,
2021-12-28
The $SOS token distribution was just about as naive as you can get. Airdrops based primarily on transaction volume (ETH DAI USDC) mean whales/wash sellers have a disproportionate share of tokens, i.e. the top 100 holders own 74% of supply. Noble mission but truly community-owned? https://twitter.com/...
Decrypt
OpenDAO airdrops SOS token for users of OpenSea's NFT marketplace; the token, unaffiliated with OpenSea, is up ~10x in two days as watchers debate its prospects
2021-12-27
The $SOS token distribution was just about as naive as you can get. Airdrops based primarily on transaction volume (ETH DAI USDC) mean whales/wash sellers have a disproportionate share of tokens, i.e. the top 100 holders own 74% of supply. Noble mission but truly community-owned? https://twitter.com/...
Decrypt
OpenDAO airdrops SOS token for users of OpenSea's NFT marketplace; the token, unaffiliated with OpenSea, is up ~10x in two days as watchers debate its prospects
In brief — SOS is an airdrop from OpenDAO, distributed to people who have spent money on OpenSea transactions.
2021-12-24
This man appears to be in a completely different dimension than the rest of us or he's just clearing out his tweet drafts from 2017 https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
Marc Andreessen blocked Jack Dorsey on Twitter following his tweets critical of a16z and Web3; Dorsey then tweeted “I'm officially banned from web3”
The venture capitalist blocked the former Twitter CEO, and Dorsey said he's now ‘banned from Web3’
2020-12-03
USDC: 1 Libra: 0 https://www.forbes.com/...
Forbes
Visa says it's connecting its global network of 60M merchants to the US Dollar Coin, a stablecoin created by Circle Internet Financial on ethereum's blockchain
2019-11-26
Wow. EBay finally realizes a 13x on its StubHub investment. The sale was well-timed: SH isn't growing and doesn't do primary ticketing either. Given this new comp I wouldn't be surprised to see big tech/PE circling @SeatGeek w/ a similar blueprint in mind. https://www.wsj.com/...
CNBC
eBay to sell StubHub to Swiss ticket resale marketplace viagogo for about $4.05B in cash
Elly Cosgrove / CNBC :
2018-02-19
Holy shit—Switzerland announces reasonable ICO guidelines! ICOs are broken down into three sub-segments: • payments (must comply w AML regs) • utility (not treated as securities) • assets (treated as securities) Link: https://www.ft.com/... pic.twitter.com/oXkJELXPzN
Financial Times