Cryptofans we are your fans, we love you. Thanks for reading the open ledger love letters every day here on the Overton window stretching Publish0x. 
We need your help. The big we, ALL the people hoping to avoid being crushed when fiat rolls over. 
Up the hill backwards, we gonna be alright, yeah.
The FT today is a lovely critter. Fab oped by Janan Ganesh on how the liberal West must win, tho he comes too close to saying the ends justify the means. Eurozone GDP tanking. Hyundai catching up with Tesla! German bunds going wild as quant easing ends. Soon quant tightening (selling all the bonds they bought) will start. Maybe.
Ancient art used to be garish, lol: 
Methane is rising. Norway's giant wealth fund gets hacked, well, a lot. Typo in the story: 
but they are getting hacked either about thirty or three hundred times a DAY!!!
We had a typo in our brain yesterday! Correction/ retraction time at the crypto gazette; we confused Molly Knight with Molly White.
We stand by our critique of Molly Knight's comments on crypto yesterday. But we slurred Molly White with the confusion. Oh, Molly White is a crypto hater of the first degree, no question about that. She's never actually worked a day in her life in crypto, other than collating nasty stories. She did work as an "engineer" for six years at a sales tool software house before quitting due to "burnout." She is so socialist left that even Wiki agrees. But Molly (White) has dedicated a lot of time to a fascinating blog where she details every nasty thing that ever happens in crypto; lol, she includes a lot of FT stories!
Her blog, web3isgoinggreat.com, is 100% negative, but it's a work of art, gotta kinda love it. Mother Jones sez it's illegal for Coinbase to stop sending email notifications of price moves! Renbridge is gonna be the next sanctions target. Juicy details and personal contact with Pharma bro's rugpull!! exchanges going under we never heard of, same for rugpulls. One monkey Ian impersonated eleven devs on Solano including Sunny Aggregator, maybe faked up billions with double counting!! Hodlnaut lied about no Terra exposure!! Bored Apes are actually Nazi imagery. Million dollar wallet hacks, layoff details, it's ALL there, that's just this month. Magnificent, really.
And funny! The very positive story where Riot saves the Texas grid with pre-arranged cutouts, is somehow twisted into badness & evil of crypto, "mining without paying for power" rofl. Less funny - glorification of really nasty anti crypto plays, like Mailchimp (who we have hated for years as a product) refusing service to anyone hinting of crypto ties.
The rise and fall and further fall of Dune Dao! A blockchain carbon offset company started a huge forest fire in Spain while planting trees. WHAT a rabbithole, great job Molly you inexperienced crypto hater! Ya got a schtick. Our apologies, you dyed in the wool blockchain hater you.
Crypto not saying crypto in the FT today: Some ex U of C prof gets a letter published saying the BofE did perfect. Inflation in Turkey is nuts but the dollar is strong and tourists are pouring in. The UK economy is tanking six ways from Sunday.
But that's it, no other crypto than a17z's Chris making print. We stand by our thank yous. A wonderful story. Hopefully the bash on All Points South never sees dead trees. We did listen to a bit of the podcast. Even as it was funny to hear Mikey Sailor start to refuse to engage to stupid questions in succession " what if BTC goes to zero? Well, what if it goes to 100 then??" It was funny to hear Chris refuse to entertain that BS!!
These guys are used to talking to really smart people, ya know. When the FT starts burbling "what do you say to all those critics of blockchain!??!? HUH, huh, whaddya say??" Chris just spanks em. 
He points out how all the critics are the same nine people over and over, and how they are just not earnest, not really in the space, no experience, weak arguments. It's funny. Chris looks like a smart hardass, but he sounds like a nice, rational human who's job is to to expressing truth to important AND rational people.
Online, we have a late breaking story - following in the footsteps of Molly, it's a nastygram on a paper about crypto powered ransomware gangs.
Oligopolies rule everything around us. Dolla Dolla bill's y'all! CASH rules everything around! TLDR: it's a paper by NBER, the central bank fiat authorities. Chainalysis says top gangs Conti, Dark Side, and Phoenix extorted 175MM in 2021. Conti and DarkSide run ransomware as a service.
The FT says this paper is NOT written by anti-crypto zealots. Banning crypto won't work outside countries. Crypto is small compared to cash in illegal payments. 80% of USD cash is in 100 dollar bills, which are rarely used and rarely accepted (sic.) Banning crypto puts countries at a competitive disadvantage.
The FT disagrees, blockchain transparency is theoretical, but costs are real.
For example, Conti went down hard this year because it was pro Russia, so a Ukrainian insider hacker leaked the toolkit and chats.
The REAL story: WTF Oligopolies rules ? Cream baby!! 
. It's really funny the FT says this paper is not written by anti-crypto zealots. Bull $#($&#@($*&$#&$!!! Quit lying. NBER is the temple of the central banks as dear readers will remember. Of course, dear readers know whenever someone SAYS "I am not a crook" what does THAT mean boys n girlz!??! LMAO. I did not have sex with that women, I am not a retarded hothouse flower, soon we are in bad rock & roll sex joke land. I didn't know she was your sister!!! If I knew you had more time, I would have never mind.
This paper is nothing but a broadside at crypto. Worse yet, coming from the Mordor of central banks, it's also floating trial balloons on banning cash. WTF hundies are not used nor accepted?? Been out to dinner in NYC lately?? Plus even NBER admits nearly all crimes are cash - so ban cash is the solution!! Mom, dad, pure evil. The closing argument makes NO sense. Conti went down cause Russia, so what?? How the @!$(&@!$(*!$&!! is that anti crypto!!??!? Lookit that scary pic from Bloomberg.
Judges agree, one solid FU for printing agitprop from NBER and saying it is NOT agitprop. Just because even NBER sez they CANNOT ban crypto doesn't mean they don't want to. Another FU, banning cash is another big step backwards into tyranny for mankind vs. absolute control freaks. Just a big setup for CBDC’s hellish rollout. Two out of five sincere FU's. Scr-w ya, Alphaville, we expect a LOT better. Focus on the competitive disadvantage of the UK why doncha.
And there's a little love letter for the FT. Tough love, MIND. lol. 
back to Shao - Lin, lol.
Peace,
love
Dave
