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Nick Tomaino • The Slow Death of the Firm

via their identity and reputation status.

William Mougayar • The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology

He cited a forecast from a different play-money prediction market site called Metaculus. “What’s the chance of FTX defaulting on any customer deposit in 2022? It was like one point three percent,” MacAskill recalled.

Nate Silver • On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

Tel Aviv–based venture capital firm Aleph

Paul Vigna , Michael J. Casey • The Age of Cryptocurrency

Stable coin can have advantage over fiat money in the long term, especially in use cases like international transfer.

Bloomberg • Sam Bankman-Fried and Matt Levine on How to Make Money in Crypto | Odd Lots

“A lot of the crypto world has pushed itself into the mainstream too quickly, to the point where no native culture has been able to ferment,” Angelo says. “You can’t attach the current culture to this new one and expect it to work. We want to create something completely new.”

Friends with Benefits (FWB) • In the Future of Fashion, Everyone Gets Paid

Dorsey is a Bitcoin maximalist, an economic idealist who believes that Bitcoin must be the only digital currency.

The Information • Jack Dorsey, Marc Andreessen and the Makings of a Crypto Holy War

Alameda had also hoovered up about half the existing FTT tokens, for instance, creating, in effect, a second stake in FTX for Sam, with a claim on about one-sixth of all FTX’s revenues. In the past eighteen months, FTT’s price had risen from roughly $3 to roughly $80. Again, it was hard to say how much Sam could unload FTT for, had he tried to sell

Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

In Hong Kong, Sam and his small team began to pitch the billionaire founders of existing exchanges on the idea of paying Alameda Research (Gary) to create a crypto exchange, different in important ways from any that existed. Alameda would supply the technology; the existing exchanges would supply the customers, and the trust.…

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