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If you work in the financial industry and are not all over crypto and defi, what happened to your intellectual curiosity?

1/ Some really sketchy behavior coming out of the SEC recently. Story time…

Recently, the Chinese govt provided new guidance to & placed restrictions on China-based companies raising capital offshore, including through associated offshore shell companies. My statement on investor protection & the recent developments in China⬇️ sec.gov/news/public-st…

Crypto is a very dangerous and adversarial place. If you are not careful, you risk having your valuable cryptocurrencies stolen from you. I've compiled a thread on some security best practices that you can follow to stay safe. Read on below 👇👇

The current Tether drama unequivocally proves that the current stablecoin regulatory regime is not good enough. There are two possible explanations for Tether's behavior. One is, as many skeptics (including me) have argued, that Tether is basically a massive fraud and has been

via S. Ede ‘Society is shifting from a production mode based on value created in a market system (through labor and capital) to one which recognizes broader value streams. These streams are experienced as ‘contributions’ to shared resources, ‘commons’.’ commonstransition.org/value-commons-…

RT @ntnsndr: Some comments on what I think is a tremendous opportunity for legacy co-ops—to rediscover lateral relationships among their members. twitter.com/MEDLabBoulder/…

The larger the corporation, the more likely it will try to screw citizens. Your local butcher, barber, grocer, and baker aren't in the business of lobbying/manipulating science. Monsanto, Weapons makers, Pharma live off coersion, manipulation of science, & propaganda #Corporatism

"The significant problems we face can not be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."—Albert Einstein

What if everything is algorithmic? Computers are lauded for not breaking the rules, but there are times for breaking the rules.

In our modern society everything seems geared to material development, even our systems of education. As a result we no longer pay sufficient attention to our inner values, which leads to mental unrest. In order to address this imbalance we need to pay more attention to our minds

<By accounting for externalities, we are inventing much more than a sophisticated ledger. We are inventing the civilizational organs of effective perception - a perception which shapes and conditions production itself, in view of human/ecological sustainability> (Brian Holmes)

@jwbabiak They're incapable of doing anything that would help, so the desire is to shut up the people talking about the difficult and dangerous things. I'm convinced that is the general mechanism: hostile helplessness.

Socialism vs capitalism is not even the right question. What really matters is avoiding monopolies that restrict people’s freedom.

Here are my thoughts on the use of IP licenses as collateral in secured transactions. Thank you to the Special Editors @Giuliano_C, Charles Mooney, & Steven Schwarcz, and the fantastic L&CP Editorial Team @DukeLaw #IntellectualProperty #IP #SecuredTransactions

Humans definitely won't regret creating robot snakes with lasers on their heads twitter.com/mashable/statu…