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.
Crypto’s Gold Replacement Theology remains a myth—for now
Data show Bitcoin isn’t the gold-replacing safe haven touters say it is
For the past several days, Bitcoin/self-promoters have been touting the cryptocurrency as a safe haven from uncertainty in the markets. In other words, they are letting fantasy get in the way of reality.
Halving halfwits: Anthony Pompliano’s feud with Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal over who’s the greater fool
What seemed like a Twitter fight over the Efficient Market Hypothesis is really about something else
Have you heard of “The Halving?” Many—if not most—retail traders and investors may not have heard of it. Those that have probably don’t care all that much about it. For that reason, all those HODLers who take up a lot of space on Reddit and Twitter give themselves a pat on the back.
BitForex tries to bribe Modern Consensus into removing critical article
Obviously, we decline
BitForex, the Singapore-based crypto exchange, attempted to bribe Modern Consensus this past week in an effort to get us to remove an old story about them that they didn’t like. We refused.
