• You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about (via Twitter).
    People

    ‘Gym Friend’ meme war: Troll trolled after trolling troll

    Blockstream CSO and well-known troll Samson Mow managed to turn a minor meme-poster into a crypto-Twitter celebrity by getting offended. Accusations of sexism, phony DCMA takedown notices, and censorship followed

    Blockstream CSO and thin-skinned troll Samson Mow's Gym Friend meme war turned a minor joke into a saga with allegations of sexism, fraud, and censorship.

  • Craig Wright (by Brendan Sullivan for Modern Consensus).
    Bitcoin

    Binance boots BSV because of billionaire’s bombast

    Calling Craig Wright a “fraud,” the leading crypto exchange’s CEO delisted his BSV coin in retaliation for suing crypto community members

    Craig Wright’s legal threats to cryptocurrency community members challenging his claim to be Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto have gotten his BSV coin booted off of the world’s largest exchange.

  • Red flags
    Alt coins,  Bitcoin,  Cryptocurrencies

    Defying logic, Kraken raises more red flags after attacking Bloomberg piece on Tether manipulation

    Kraken’s defense of its business: an insult-and-expletive-laden diatribe

    The second most interesting thing to happen in crypto this past weekend was the Bloomberg article dissecting thousands of tether trades on Kraken. Even more fascinating, however, was Kraken’s puerile response to that serious accusation made by one of the world’s largest financial news and data organizations. For those who don’t have time to dive into it (and we suspect that’s most of our audience), here’s the deal: On June 29, Bloomberg reporter Matthew Leising, along with Mira Rojanasakul, Demetrios Pogkas, and Brandon Kochkodin, published an analysis they performed on 56,000 tether trades conducted on the Kraken exchange between May 1 and June 22. Kraken is pretty much the only place…