The weekend shift: Bitcoin, Biden, BitBoy

by James · August 27, 2022

Welcome to the 82nd weekend shift!

What’s the matter? Over the weekend, we’ll update this post with some of the most interesting articles, podcasts, charts, and opinion pieces we’re too busy to write about.

OK, just crypto? Not necessarily. We do it Monday through Friday, so we try to explore new topics on the weekends.

Feel free to join and submit contributions at Twitter. Any topic is fair game.

August 27

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Starting with our top piece this week.

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Funny.

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While we’re on the subject.

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Good reading.

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ICYMI.

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God, I love this logic:

“We have a law firm willing to represent me – law firms don’t do that when they think it’s a scam!” pic.twitter.com/iKqGvdGfSg

— Cas “Big 12 Auditor” Piancey (@CasPiancey) 26 August 2022

Sounds legit.

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There is a new study from Forbes $BTC trading volume being spread by nocoiners

The methodology doesn’t analyze trading data very specifically, and instead arbitrarily cuts reported volumes based on… whether or not an exchange participated in Forbes surveys

lmao pic.twitter.com/WnPbyJWK9p

— Andrew T (@Blockanalia) 26 August 2022

Lol.

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No comment.

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Make sure you check out The Office Slack, if you haven’t already.

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Curious.

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A Russian spy, posing as a Peruvian-born jeweler with a chaotic personal life, tried to befriend NATO staff and figures working at the organization’s Allied Joint Force Command in Italy over several years.https://t.co/6HwsFmUR8T

— Bellingcat (@bellingcat) 26 August 2022

Crazy story by Bellingcat.

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Whew.

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Alexa is playing Rhythm Nation.

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“Some Democrats pushed the president to write off $50,000 in debt, an idea that I said more than a year ago would have been a political disaster.” @RadioFreeTom write. “The current plan, by comparison, is just poor and politically obtuse.”https://t.co/qmjzyf43EB

— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) 24 August 2022

Biden’s gamble with student loans.

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it’s a shame Biden is wasting money bailing out students when there is a full blown lending crisis going on among bored monkey borrowers

— Neeraj K. Agrawal (@NeerajKA) 25 August 2022

Lol.

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Steep.

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Better late than never.

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Beijing has for decades targeted Taiwan, the self-governing island that China claims as its own. While China probably lacks the ability to quickly take the island, it can try to contain it by cutting it off physically, economically and digitally. https://t.co/Ky17P75k0L

— The New York Times (@nytimes) 26 August 2022

Beijing has had its sights set on Taiwan for quite some time now.

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A new documentary follows a family from the remote village of Dhey, high in the Himalayas, where water has become scarce, forcing the younger generation to move. Look here. https://t.co/iNlHHRYINJ

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) 26 August 2022

GG – Glaciers are moving.

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Now scale up for the Alps.

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Fifty years after the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, Germany is still struggling to come to terms with the attack in which eleven Israelis and a policeman were killed by Palestinian terrorists during the Games.https://t.co/OxjBInbzaR

— DW News (@dwnews) 26 August 2022

Remember.

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Ukrainian photographer Julia Kochetova documents the suffering in her country for DER SPIEGEL. For a long time she thought her parents were safe, but then Russian missiles started hitting her hometown. https://t.co/u5IJVg3Jcs

— SPIEGEL English (@SPIEGEL_English) 5 August 2022

Fantastic pictures.

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The mass of paintings and sculptures collected by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen could top $1 billion when it goes up for auction at Christie’s this fall https://t.co/4qFjufuh3C

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) 26 August 2022

What bear market?

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Album of the week.

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Yesterday Powell made it clear that economic pain is coming – and inflation is the main focus right now

But the labor market is showing a shift in how we ‘are able’ to work – and is potentially a reflection of wider distrust at the macro and micro levels https://t.co/DpaEgj77qI

— Kyla Scanlon (@kylascan) 27 August 2022

Great read.

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