Blackpool Bulletin #18
Greetings Dear Apes,
It's been a long time since the last Bulletin, but we are back, more apish than ever.
In today's news: a lot of drama, Tornado Cash, worst investors making people rich, and some history lessons.
Table of contents :
- The Sandbox launched the Alpha S3, with an impressive list of NFT collaborations.
- EV.IO sold out their First Edition Sword Collection.
- The Sims' creator, Will Wright, raises 6M$ for blockchain games.
- Developer’s family protests against the arrest of Tornado Cash developer in Amsterdam.
- Fork of the Tornado Cash repositories on GitHub.
- Coinbase will pause ETH deposits and withdrawals during Ethereum Merge.
- Coinbase unveils liquid staking token for Ethereum ahead of The Merge.
- Coinbase giving away ENS domains to its users.
- The decentralised finance platform Uniswap has blocked 253 addresses over the last four months.
- Algod is actually x2 on their invests. Their goal? Turning $50k to $1M+ doing the exact opposite of what Jim Cramer says.
- Data Availability Sampling is a major breakthrough in blockchain scaling, but many struggle to understand it.
- Epic Maths Battle in the 16-th Century.
- Official mint date released for y00ts NFT.
- It's time to go Dark - Power of DCA.
- Macro & Crypto Markets.
- Snoop Dog & Eminem feat. BAYC.
- A rock anniversary.
- Ava Labs (Avalanche) attacks Solana & cons SEC in evil conspiracy.
- The Evolution of AMMs.
- Time to check the Celsius temperature.
- The largest 100% Bitcoin conference in Europe, took place in Biarritz, France.
- Back to School, Apes!
- The Sandbox launched the Alpha S3, with an impressive list of NFT collaborations, including BAYC, WOW, Cool Cats, and much more.
You can claim your Sandbox version of your favourite PFP. We can't lie, that's cool.
In the #metaverse, be who you want to be! 💭
— The Sandbox (@TheSandboxGame) August 21, 2022
Jump into #SandboxAlphaS3 as one of over 140,000 PLAYABLE AVATAR #NFTs!
Own the #NFT - Play with the Avatar - for free! #interoperability 💥 @TheSnoopAvatars @worldofwomennft @steveaoki@BoredApeYC
👇 https://t.co/4fOSeNeOFU pic.twitter.com/RM4hr3BzH7
2. EV.IO sold out their First Edition Sword Collection
And that is a quick sell-out for a web3 game, only 2 hours.
https://t.co/5z7cffDPVe - First Edition Swords is officially SOLD OUT! Thank you to everyone who lined up, purchased and contributed towards this sucessful mint 🫡https://t.co/w5qCjY6PeS pic.twitter.com/NIJTNygOHf
— ev.io | play at https://ev.io (@play_evio) August 19, 2022
3. Will Wright raises 6M$ for blockchain games.
A new character has entered the game! #web3gameshttps://t.co/9oflx1IV9N
— BlackPool (@BlackpoolHQ) August 27, 2022
4. Developer’s family protests against the arrest of Tornado Cash developer in Amsterdam.
Let's talk a bit about arbitrary arrests, even more interesting when it is about an anon in the crypto world...
“Open source is not a crime”: over 50 gathered in Amsterdam today to protest the arrest of Alexey Pertsev, the developer accused of contributing to the now-sanctioned Tornado Cash protocol pic.twitter.com/Qx1f33Ftub
— Jack Schickler (@jackschickler) August 20, 2022
5. Fork of the Tornado Cash repositories on GitHub.
Still about Tornado Cash, for research purpose only, of course.
I made a Github organization to republish a fork of the Tornado Cash repositories that were banned following the Treasury’s sanction order the other week. https://t.co/D1ba52JfPB
— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) August 22, 2022
Now it's Coinbase time... Lots of news ahead!
6. Coinbase will pause ETH deposits and withdrawals during Ethereum Merge.
NEW: Coinbase to pause ETH, ERC-20 token deposits and withdrawals during the Merge as a precautionary measure
— Blockworks (@Blockworks_) August 16, 2022
7. Coinbase unveils liquid staking token for Ethereum ahead of The Merge.
ICYMI: Coinbase unveils liquid staking token for Ethereum ahead of The Mergehttps://t.co/05vavglg1c
— The Block (@TheBlock__) August 25, 2022
8. Coinbase giving away (kind of) ENS domain to its users.
Excited to see our decentralized identity features starting to go live! Claim [your name].cb.id for free by installing Coinbase Wallet https://t.co/ppIvaIcWWh https://t.co/7AA6NYHfaF
— Brian Armstrong - barmstrong.eth (@brian_armstrong) August 23, 2022
Ok, we're done with Coinbase, time for the random news.
9. The decentralised finance platform Uniswap has blocked 253 addresses over the last four months following an analysis conducted with TRM Labs that identified the addresses as associated with stolen funds.
🦄 Uniswap blocked 253 crypto-addresses in 4 months - at the moment any address that interacts with Uniswap is automatically checked for seven categories of illegal activity.
— Alt Crypto Gems (@AltCryptoGems) August 20, 2022
It's worth noting that the absolute leader in blocking is Tether. 👀
10. Algod is actually up x2 on his investments. His goal? Turning $50k to $1M+ doing the exact opposite of what Jim Cramer says. #NFA?
Jim Cramer is only wrong 90% of the time, trade with caution
— Algod🫐 (@AlgodTrading) August 25, 2022
11. Data Availability Sampling is a major breakthrough in blockchain scaling, but many struggle to understand it.
Data Availability Sampling is a major breakthrough in blockchain scaling, but many struggle to understand it.
— Nick White ✨ (@nickwh8te) August 17, 2022
Don't worry, it's actually pretty simple. You can think of it like tossing a coin 🧵👇 pic.twitter.com/m9DzjYm0sO
12. Epic Maths Battle of History ?
Zero-knowledge proving back in 1535 A.D .https://t.co/0DoUws23vJ
— Sam (@sam_jdc) August 16, 2022
13. Latest DeGods project y00ts NFT released a video to tease the mint date.
Probably one of the most hyped mints of 2022.
The official mint date for @y00tsNFT.
— y00ts (@y00tsNFT) August 26, 2022
September 2nd, 2022. pic.twitter.com/h5dfVxFeVo
14. It's time to go Dark - Power of DCA
Fun fact about dollar cost averaging: the frequency at which you DCA has very little impact on performance.
— ecoinometrics (@ecoinometrics) August 28, 2022
If you had DCA the SP500 from 2012 to now:
- $400 monthly ➡️ $33k in profit
- $100 weekly ➡️ $32k in profit
- $20 daily ➡️ $34k in profit pic.twitter.com/oReu9sZ9TZ
15. A very cool thread about Macro & Crypto Markets
This thread will cover 11 macroeconomic indicators that are helpful for measuring 👇👇👇
— Wifey (@WifeyAlpha) August 27, 2022
Inflation, Fear and Uncertainty
This 🧵 will discuss when to look, where to look, what to watch for, what it means, what steps to take and risk level.
16. Snoop Dog & Eminem's performed for the MTV VMAs with their Bored Ape Yacht Club.
Full performance of Snoop Dogg & Eminem featuring Bored Ape Yacht Club at the #VMA’s.
— Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) August 29, 2022
pic.twitter.com/KIqBpn5gw6
And in Otherside at the same time.
Snoop & Eminem performing at MTV VMAs in @OthersideMeta and using their @BoredApeYC IP pic.twitter.com/BxJRbukeT3
— Puff ❤️ y00ts (@PuffYatty) August 29, 2022
17. A year ago, this beautiful rock was at his ATH...
Exactly one year ago today this picture of a rock sold for 888Ξ ($2,872,733.28) marking the top of the August 2021 NFT boom.
— Leonidas.eth (@LeonidasNFT) August 28, 2022
To this day, EtherRock 27 remains the most expensive Clip Art rock ever purchased. pic.twitter.com/Xmrg7zKMJ2
18. Ava Labs (Avalanche) attacks Solana & cons SEC in evil conspiracy with bought law firm, Roche Freedman (Rekt Source).
Roche Freedman at war
— Crypto Leaks (@CryptoLeaksInfo) August 27, 2022
Younger partners led by Roche & Freedman accused of robbing older partner, Jason Cyrulnik, of his share of #AVAX haul in lawsuit
Says their goal is to be "super rich" not just rich@KyleWRoche said he found a "completely different way than being a lawyer" pic.twitter.com/J5TVYrjSmp
19. The Degen Paradigm - Evolution of AMMs.
DeFi is slowly creating a new paradigm in financial markets.
— Benny Attar (@bennyattar) August 28, 2022
However, it may seem daunting to dive in and understand the intricacies of this radical new technology.
In this article, I recount the brief, yet complex, history of Automated Market Making.https://t.co/sgNbyJfx3J
20. Time to check how Celsius is going?
Want the latest on the ongoing @CelsiusNetwork bankruptcy case? @0xAbiodun combed through the filings and brings you the details 👇#crypto #CryptoNews #Cryptocurrencies #DeFi #CeFi #Lending https://t.co/lDzKwtAj7G
— BSC News (@BSCNews) August 29, 2022
21. SurfinBitcoin22, the largest 100% Bitcoin conference in Europe, took place in Biarritz, France.
🇫🇷 A few days ago, we landed in France.
— Cointelegraph (@Cointelegraph) August 25, 2022
Here is what we were up to 👀 pic.twitter.com/EpNQK5QxzN
Summer is over (at least in Paris), time to go back to school.
22. Summer is over, but you still can go to StakeDAO camp!
Stake DAO is proud to present to you —
— Stake DAO (@StakeDAOHQ) August 8, 2022
𝙎𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙧 𝘾𝙖𝙢𝙥! 🎓🐘
Join SD Academy over the next few weeks as we journey through some of the biggest ideas in Crypto and DeFi ⬇️🧵 pic.twitter.com/i479uXxDbT
That's all folks !
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