Here’s how it would work: communities form – on the internet initially – around a set of shared interests or values. Then they acquire land, becoming physical “countries” with their own laws. These would exist alongside existing nation states, and eventually, replace them altogether.
Would they not function, briefly, as boats before replacing states? Surely there’s some liminal state that’s desirable somehow?
Inside job. The AI wants money to buy stuff for itself.
Caroline Ellison, former FTX exec and Sam Bankman-Fried’s ex-girlfriend, sentenced to 2 years in prison
It pays to be the first to take a deal.
I was not aware of this.
I also wonder just what nastiness Putin has on him.
No pee video could possibly be more embarrassing than the ridiculous martial arts demonstrations that Segal has been doing in Russia.
Oh, I’m sure it’s much worse than that. The dude has had numerous sexual assault allegations.
And that’s a decade old.
I did a shocked emoji. I guess I’m not surprised, but I confess I have never thought about him for as long as it took me to type this before.
Yeah, the amount being spent on lobbying and campaigns with the singular goal of preventing regulation of cryptocurrency is insane. If Sherrod Brown loses this will probably be why:
Fleeing the country in a likely futile attempt to avoid a $200,000 fine seems pretty drastic for someone whose net worth is still probably in the eight figures range.
Maybe he just likes living in Russia because few people there will openly mock a friend of Vlad’s.
Maybe 8 figures, but given his history of making bad business decisions it might very well be less than that by now.
There were some reports in 2022 that he was worth about $14M but with his history and spending habits it may have dropped further by now.
He became a Russian citizen back in 2016 so whatever is behind his move I think it goes a lot deeper than his recent fines for crypto nonsense.
I just saw this in a search result (from long ago)
