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The TCB Weekly News Roundup, ending 1 Jan 2023 – FTX and CBDCs

By Brian in Chicago on January 2, 2023 • ( 0 )

More FTX news
More FTX fallout
CBDC’s are gaining traction. (See Russel’s video below)

Sorry for the late post- I’ve been fixing a broken water heater.

Enjoy and be well, Everyone.

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The Week’s Posts

What Bitcoin Did: “Finding Bitcoin with Jeff Booth”

Reports:
NYDIG – A Weekly Digest of Bitcoin News & Insights

This Week In Twitter

Stay with me here… but if math is the universal language, and bitcoin is mathematical money, then bitcoin is the universal money.
— Memeing ₿itcoin (@MemeingBitcoin) December 31, 2022

There are now a record amount of long term #Bitcoin hodlers! pic.twitter.com/d2DoxTky3w
— CryptoCurrency News (@CryptoBoomNews) December 30, 2022

When you’re insolvent, just disguise the fact that you’re insolvent by starting a so-called “liquidity pool”, where new suckers can deposit their crypto for artificially high rates!

Guess what happens next?!

Get out of Binance fraud. pic.twitter.com/O20Mnc40U0
— Bitfinex’ed 🔥🐧 Κασσάνδρα 🏺 (@Bitfinexed) January 1, 2023

Well, well. How far up the ladder does this go? https://t.co/xrTu905iBe
— Robert W Malone, MD (@RWMaloneMD) December 28, 2022

1. THREAD:

THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE

– By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy
– By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed
– By suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*
— David Zweig (@davidzweig) December 26, 2022

If Einstein was alive today and posted his theory of relativity as a thread some of you would tell him he doesn’t understand physics.

Goodnight
— Tyler (@ApeDurden) January 1, 2023

Headlines

Adoption, Implementation and Infrastructure

CBDCs (are just Surveillance Tokens)
–Turkish Central Bank Runs First CBDC Tests

COMPANIES & PROTOCOLS
–Why Solana Was Decimated by Bankman-Fried’s Downfall
FTX
–Disputed Robinhood shares may be moved to neutral account at BlockFi’s request
–Ellison and Wang Will Be ‘Game Changers’ in Bankman-Fried’s Trial, Lawyer Says
–Alameda Research Liquidated Ether-Based Token Holdings for Bitcoin in Past 24 Hours, On-Chain Data Shows
–FTX customers file class-action lawsuit to get priority reparations
–SBF borrowed $546M from Alameda to fund Robinhood share purchase [It’s Other People’s Money]
–Bahamas regulator is temporarily holding $3.5B FTX assets

CRIMES AND SCAMS

DeFi CeFi and Lending
–This Week In DeFi – December 30
–Celsius, FTX, Voyager users sell bankruptcy claims for pennies on the dollar

Exchanges
–Crypto Exchange Gemini Sued by Investors Over Interest-Earning Program
–Bitfinex closes week leading Bitcoin reserves according to Glassnode

GOSSIP
–FTX-backed Projects Plunge as ‘Sam Coins’ Underperform

Mining
–Argo Blockchain sells top mining facility to Galaxy Digital for $65M
–100%: Public Bitcoin miners sold almost everything they mined in 2022
–Bitcoin ASIC miner prices hovering at lows not seen in years
–Bitcoin hash rate falls 13% in one day, mining difficulty estimated to drop 10%

Nation States (and other political jurisdictions)

NFTs / Metaverse / Web3 / DAOs
–BLOCKWORKS: What to Expect for NFTs and Digital Goods in 2023

Regulation, Legislation, Legal Matters & Taxation
USA/Europe

STABLECOINS

Taxation

Wall Street and Big Money
KEEP AN EYE ON THIS –> https://bitcointreasuries.net/
…AND THIS –> https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/treasuries/
–Valkyrie aims to rescue Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust

Time Capsule

Outside News

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