Final day at The Block today. Was a hell of a ride. Thanks to everyone who supported me with articles, podcasts, revenue deals over the years 🙏 really appreciate it Gonna take a few months off to detox from crypto and walk my puppy. Lfg 🫡

look dude, i don't know who you are and all my btc was lost to ftx — but i will pay you everything i have left for you not to publish this

PayPal CEO: "Early next year, we're going to allow cryptocurrencies to be a funding source for any transaction happening on all 28 million of our merchants." That's pretty huge.

this image is crazy. first representation of a cross-chain world i've seen

unbelievable

Coinbase sums everything up in one sentence: "We asked the SEC specifically to identify which assets on our platforms they believe may be securities, and they declined to do so."

this new generation of NFT holders be like:

here you go boys

Michael Saylor: I have $3.5 billion of Bitcoin. Also Michael Saylor: I need another billion

honestly this is one of my favourite tweets of all time

HOLY MOLY they acknowledged it! > from the US Treasury's first risk assessment on DeFi:

Solana just saw it's first $2 million NFT sale 👀

this is truly wild

No way did the FT use this image lmao

Su Zhu meeting Katy Perry is the real Supercycle.

BREAKING: Metamask has *not* blocked #Ethereum transactions in Venezuela.

the GPUs:

you guys selling bitcoin because blackrock needs to refile its application naming Coinbase? wow

Okay I am shocked at this cube. Like honestly I read the reviews and saw the tweets but didn't realise it was all true. This cube is otherworldly dense. It yearns to be one again with the earth, with a power I can't quite explain. It is the ultimate cube.

VanEck's Matthew Sigel just said he's heard from a well placed source that BlackRock has $2 billion of capital lined up from existing bitcoin holders that want to rotate into spot bitcoin ETFs in week one 👀

I spent six months working in my spare time to create this, as a decent bit of real journalism in this space. if you appreciate that, please share! decrypt.co/11327/the-inside-… #Binance #BNB @binance

He's made 238,000 attacks against 106,000 victims and earned $34 million in profits How JaredFromSubway.eth is eating your sandwich: theblock.co/post/230218/jare…

for the memes

Breaking: Craig Wright's lawyer confirms he does not have the private keys for Satoshi Nakamoto's fortune. decrypt.co/16998/confirmed-c… #craigwright #bitcoinsv #satoshi

Coinbase highlighting the SEC's inconsistent statements over the years

mt gox casually repaid 92% of creditors and we're still at $61,000 ain't bad

Crypto twitter always surprises me

Didn't realise ETH emissions decrease 10X when the merge happens

What is a notcoin and why does it have 1.8 million followers

satoshi: just do some processing on your pc and you can earn bitcoin, anywhere in the world worldcoin: hmm we're gonna need to scan your eyeballs

Who's actually shipping this cycle? Name one project only

if you earn less than 100K in the UK, you're not allowed to invest more than 10% of your assets into crypto wow

BRO 😂 @inversebrah

A friend of mine has spent $10,000 printing a million of these bad boys.

Dude at my meetup tells me he bought UST to hedge against a black swan event for USDC (which most of his holdings are in) .....wadafak?

Wtf I got nerfed from first place to basically last?

wait i thought the mumbling videos were being posted by Trump supporters but this is his real account lmao how did they include that first bit 💀

Billionaire life

Excited to announce my new role as Editor-In-Chief of The Block.

Wow. Forbes just published this graph. Unbelievable.

Craig Wright's lawsuit against Roger Ver for libel has been dismissed—and Wright had to pay £60,000 ($73,000) for Ver's legal fees. decrypt.co/8155/uk-court-str… @rogerkver #bitcoincash #bitcoinsv

cobie: 'tbh i don't really have a comment' also cobie:

On April 2, Binance acquired CMC. On April 3, it was ranked 15th, with 2/3 of volume "suspicious" according to CMC's adjusted volume metric. Today, it's ranked 1st and the 'adjusted volume' metric has gone—putting it 1st for volume too. decrypt.co/28924/coinmarketc…

Full quote: "I heard from a pretty well placed source that Blackrock has more than $2 billion lined up in week one in new incremental flows from existing Bitcoin holders who are adding to positions — I can't vouch for that. But you know, that's what everyone is doing. Just making phone calls and trying to find the folks who can write checks into these products. And our estimates — that, you know, if that $2 billion happened in week one, you know, that would blow away our estimates. We're at $2.5 billion in the first quarter of trading, which we do by looking at the past flows into the first gold ETF and adjusting by the US money supply. And we have a $40 billion market opportunity over two years based on the similar analysis."

all of ct is just three people

Omg imagine if the Mt gox payouts had happened earlier this year and many sent their funds to ftx, planning to hodl there for a bit

some days depression just hits you like a brick to the face

Just looked at the Bitcoin code and found a little gem. Turns out the supply of new coins is going to go down considerably in a few blocks time. What a crazy thing to find. Bet nobody else knows.

Hacker spends $200K to 51% attack Ethereum Classic. Nets $5 million. decrypt.co/37721/hacker-nets…

The lawyers are the people we made rich along the way

I'm at a crypto event with reps from the Bank of England, HM Treasury, FCA, Ripple, and Prime Factor Capital. You think crypto is going away? These people are discussing how to implement it now. #crypto #bitcoin @ripple @bankofengland @TheFCA @hmtreasury

yikes what a dumb feckin take

a short story

Some personal news: I'm changing role at The Block to Head of Growth. Yes, after seven years of non-stop, 24/7, mind-destroying crypto journalism, I'm moving outside of Editorial. Why? Ultimately I feel like I've given everything to the newsroom that I had to offer, from ETF scoops to investigative features and breaking news. Now it's time for something new. Replacing me is the talented @XBT002 who will manage a brilliant team of writers who work tirelessly to get you fast, accurate crypto news. My new role will be to help increase The Block's evergreen traffic, boost our partnerships in the space, grow our revenue and shill our new platform Campus (which you should totally check out if you're hiring in crypto btw btw). We have some great sponsorship opportunities and I'm working on some engagement-focused ideas so please get in touch if those appeal to you. I'll also continue doing my live-streaming podcast The Crypto Beat. Had PayPal on recently and got a great guest next week, so stay tuned. As part of the change, I'll be deprecating my current email address. I will also no longer be involved in the news process, so do send pitches to the Editorial team instead. Just a final note: Journalism in crypto is really, really challenging. Plus, you have to sacrifice a lot of opportunities. So please respect those that put in the effort, even when they make mistakes. It's easy to criticize but the wrath that gets placed on them can be very damaging over the long run. Often it's the model that's broken, not the intention of the journalist. And if you read this far (sorry i ain't reading that, i'm happy for u tho), please reply with a pig emoji — reflecting my new role as a hog — to let me know. 🐖

YIKES: The supply of Luna has increased from 386 million to 7.1 billion in just TWO days.

Mark Cuban is rallying for Congress to make exemptions for crypto to let the industry flourish theblock.co/post/234952/mark… @mcuban

Chainlink's CEO is not your typical flashy showman. But on a podcast, he is incredibly clear, precise and informative. It was a pleasure to have him on The Decrypt Daily. open.spotify.com/episode/0H1… @TheDecryptDaily @chainlink

i regret reading the replies to this

has anyone come up with a genuinely good way to track actual users across the entire crypto ecosystem? (obviously hard to do since active wallets is easy but determining real users is hard — but i wondered who has come the closest) i need help keeping up with the kids

ahhh i checked the chain

binance stopping GBP withdrawals can't cash out banks are dead anyway might as well stay in crypto

The Telegram CEO has over 100 biological kids Is that bullish or bearish?

This is absolutely insane. Most important chart in crypto IMO.

zachxbt seeing the celsius user transactions

Want to see which areas of the market are staying more resilient than others? Keep track using GMCI Indices: theblock.co/data/crypto-mark…

wait worldcoin collects a 3D map of your face and body!?!?!?

swoosh

According to decrypt this was the vitalik meme of the year But I swear I remember another one...

i kinda feel like this cycle was the one where VCs got rugged through vesting periods.

This story is absolutely insane. The level of detail on this is incredible. theverge.com/platform/amp/21…

ffs my account is getting botted again wonder if fantasy top is still the cause

Nothing sus with the project at all. Just a casual 136K retweets on our story about them. Definitely not bots...

how is toncoin not on binance or coinbase yet? maybe they holding out on dem listing fees

The three observations that every first time crypto trader goes through

don't really understand why already listed coins are fine to trade me new ones aren't anyway, let me find some shady offshore exchange that'll see my money get hacked instead

interesting to see which sites: - chose not to cover this lawsuit (us, blockworks + i presume coindesk) - chose to cover with muted headline (crypto briefing + bloomberg) - covered with all allegations in headlines (cryptonews etc)

Traffic to top crypto news sites down 30% over last two months due to stagnating market and Coinbase removing its news feed getting tough out there. make sure to support your favourite site

Dude bets $10 million against Do Kwon and then returns to Uni

gm

if cobie makes me say one more stupid thing in an article i swear i'll donate my entire $50 net worth to charity

okay the UK has really cucked crypto for instance OKX lists TON but it's not available in the UK Binance doesn't let UK people get newly listed tokens either c'mon @RishiSunak do something

Some big scoops this week by @Yogita_Khatri5 and @LizKNapolitano 🔥 Only on The Block

You have food places for milk and cookies in the US?

in the name of Dio

Brutal introduction by @RektHQ

Had a great chat with @SergeyNazarov. What stood out to me is how far ahead he's thinking and how ambitious he is. "...you will see the blockchain industry as a whole, I think grow very, very rapidly by trillions of dollars." theblock.co/post/240714/chai… @chainlink

Been making small updates to OneCryptoFeed to keep it targeted to daily news and to reduce the number of stories coming through per day Nice to see the channel keep growing 💪

Ain't no way they cited Bloomberg when it was @Yogita_Khatri5's scoop 😭 Brutal

for those wondering why Andre Cronje no longer has a twitter account Andre: "Because I deleted it"

Spliffer

BNB just having its own bullrun, never mind anyone else. @cz_binance

Imagine an airdrop that doesn't give allocation to any wallets that have previously dumped airdrops within the first month Wonder how it would go

Since everyone's leaking their ENS names, just a reminder about keeping your financial information private. decrypt.co/19423/we-tracked-…

THE CFTC IS GOING AFTER DAOS — HOW DOES THIS AFFECT YOU? Big questions: - What is happening? - How will it affect DAOs? - How does it affect token holders? + Ooki’s legal defense will be really important for the entire DAO space. Let's take a look 👀 🧵 1/26

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