• Our former fearless leader on his wedding day (via Leo Jakobson).
    People

    Goodbye, Modern Consensus

    Founding editor Lawrence Lewitinn looks back wistfully over two years of not caring if anyone liked him.

    This isn’t an easy post for me to write. No, it’s not because I’m emotional about my final Modern Consensus post. Rather, it’s because I’m on vacation in Florida and spent much of the day on the beach. It’s snowing back in New York, where I’m headed next. The last thing I want to do on a lovely night like tonight is to write one of these boring, boo-hoo-I’m-no-longer-editor-in-chief kinds of posts.

  • "Justice isn't blind, It just looks the other way."—The Boomtown Rats.
    Bitcoin,  Opinion

    I got subpoenaed in the Craig Wright/Ira Kleiman $6 billion ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ case and I’m not giving them jack

    They gave me a check for $60 to make photocopies and here’s where they can stick it

    On Monday I got a great scoop on the huge Bitcoin lawsuit between Craig Wright and the estate of Dave Kleiman. Modern Consensus ran my short interview before the courts made any announcement. On Tuesday, someone waited outside my unlisted home address to give me a subpoena for all of my calls, texts, recordings, Whatsapp, and even my encrypted Signal and Snapchat messages. Here’s how it went down and how I’m going to fight it.