Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

As @matt_levine said, I found it kind of appealing that SBF himself didn't seem especially big on crypto. They say selling shovels in a gold rush is a good way to make money, and the logic applies even if it's fool's gold. (but we were wrong) https://t.co/bKy86n52Pt https://t.co/eYjfFBKA16 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 17, 2022 Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It can be easy to miss this but there are two parallel discourses — one that's like "of course FTX was a scam, all crypto is a scam" and the other is like "of course FTX was a scam, FTX was working with regulators and abandoning the true faith of DeFi and Bitcoin maximalism." — PolitiTweet.org

one interesting discourse note is that of course people with strong anti-crypto priors are all over the ftx story a… https://t.co/8sIUDu7zK2

Posted Nov. 17, 2022 Hibernated

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@lionel_trolling This I think is why Donald Trump was always against crypto — he recognized the traditional role of money-laundering as a source of capital for actual real estate projects. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 17, 2022 Hibernated