With the sad news that Darren Grimes is leaving Twitter to join Locals (let's be honest, he's not), I thought it the perfect time to bring back an old thread, looking back at some of his finest moments on this website...
An incredibly unfortunate thing to happen.
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Britney Spears’ boyfriend, Sam Asghari, is speaking out in support of the pop star following the release of the FX documentary about her.
@NardineSaad reports
Asghari gave his support to Spears and was bluntly disparaging her father.
He said he has “zero respect” for the elder Spears, who has a court-approved conservatorship over the singer.
“Now it’s important for people to understand that I have zero respect for someone trying to control our relationship and constantly throwing obstacles our way,” he said on social media.
That's not all he said...
https://t.co/7QTq0nvMFr
Lawyers for Jamie Spears did not immediately respond to The Times’ requests for comment Tuesday.
Meanwhile, here's the story behind the couple, including how they met and social media posts they released
https://t.co/7QTq0nvMFr
Here's why Britney Spears doesn't appear in the new FX documentary about the conservatorship and the #FreeBritney movement
@NardineSaad reports
Asghari gave his support to Spears and was bluntly disparaging her father.
He said he has “zero respect” for the elder Spears, who has a court-approved conservatorship over the singer.
“Now it’s important for people to understand that I have zero respect for someone trying to control our relationship and constantly throwing obstacles our way,” he said on social media.
That's not all he said...
https://t.co/7QTq0nvMFr
Lawyers for Jamie Spears did not immediately respond to The Times’ requests for comment Tuesday.
Meanwhile, here's the story behind the couple, including how they met and social media posts they released
https://t.co/7QTq0nvMFr
Here's why Britney Spears doesn't appear in the new FX documentary about the conservatorship and the #FreeBritney movement
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So the cryptocurrency industry has basically two products, one which is relatively benign and doesn't have product market fit, and one which is malignant and does. The industry has a weird superposition of understanding this fact and (strategically?) not understanding it.
The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.
This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.
The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."
This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.
If everyone was holding bitcoin on the old x86 in their parents basement, we would be finding a price bottom. The problem is the risk is all pooled at a few brokerages and a network of rotten exchanges with counter party risk that makes AIG circa 2008 look like a good credit.
— Greg Wester (@gwestr) November 25, 2018
The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.
This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.
The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."
This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.
