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21 Oct 2022 3 minute read 9 comments Allen Taylor
Binance hires ex-FBI agent to lead investigations. BJ Kang is evidently the “most feared man on Wall Street. I’m scared already. Tether is making USDT available at 24,000 ATMs in Brazil. Someone needs to write a song about this. Perhaps Toto can be c...
20 Oct 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor
Don’t forget to vote for Cryptocracy in the Presearch Advertising Grant contest. This week, on Defluenced, Unkle Bonehead (@unklebonehead) and I continue our discussion on the Web3 social identity crisis. We’re discussing an article at Fundamental La...
19 Oct 2022 2 minute read 1 comment Allen Taylor
My wife and I made it back to Texas safely. Finally arrived yesterday afternoon. Now I can focus on getting back to business. On another note, I’d appreciate it if you’d vote for Cryptocracy in the Presearch Advertising Grant campaign. There are some...
17 Oct 2022 3 minute read 10 comments Allen Taylor
True story. I woke up Saturday morning prepared to kick out my Saturday issue of Cryptocracy, but my computer’s battery was dead. At 5 a.m. Since I live in a van with my wife, the only way to power up is to plug into our off-grid solar system and tur...
14 Oct 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor
If you haven’t already, click this link, scroll to the bottom of the page, and take my one-question poll. Thanks! Is bitcoin destined to become a trusted means of exchange in Europe? Is a bounceback inevitable? For the first time since the Merge, eth...
13 Oct 2022 1 minute read 1 comment Allen Taylor
Unkle Bonehead and I decided to tackle this age-old question: Is Web3 social having an identity crisis? We’re using this article from Fundamental Labs as our launchpad. It’s a great article with a lot in it, and we’re unpacking it one section at a ti...
12 Oct 2022 2 minute read 6 comments Allen Taylor
Be sure to take my poll. Scroll down to the bottom of this post and answer “Yes” or “No.” Episode 5 of Defluenced is out! Watch it on YouTube. We’re talking about Web3’s identity crisis. Crypto News and Analysis Bitcoin maximalism is a cultural C...
10 Oct 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor
I love it when I get to start a newsletter and end it with Kool-Aid. We’re more than halfway to the next bitcoin halving. 3 reasons bitcoin’s hashrate keeps climbing. Why bitcoin mining is cool again. Peter Brandt says all BTC purchased in 2021 is a ...
8 Oct 2022 2 minute read 13 comments Allen Taylor
Bitcoiner claims to have discovered bitcoin creator’s original code, with notes. Stablecoins could soon be built on the Bitcoin blockchain. Does traditional banking consume more energy than bitcoin? This should get interesting. If Jim Blasko really d...
7 Oct 2022 4 minute read 18 comments Allen Taylor
Continuing the task of sharing my Web3 social earnings each month, which I’ve decided to on the first Friday, today illustrates that September has been one of my best months so far. Since I’ve started tracking my earnings, in February I earned $144.5...
