Christmas and Bankman-Fried's jingle bail

Welcome to the 99th Weekend Shift!

What’s the deal? 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, only crypto? Not necessarily. We do that Monday to Friday, so we try to explore new subjects on weekends.

Feel free to join in and submit entries on Twitter. Any topic is fair game.

December 24

1 hour ago

Starting off with the most read article this week.

1 hour ago

Breaking News: Sam Bankman-Fried will be released on $250 million bail. The disgraced former cryptocurrency executive will be placed under home detention with his parents in California. https://t.co/K2VG2TcrwQ

— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 22, 2022

Damn.

1 hour ago

Good interview.

60 mins ago

Just like that.

60 mins ago

Sunak asks a homeless man in a homeless shelter whether he “works in business”, then proceeds to talk about the financial services industry. Utterly bizarre pic.twitter.com/jQPzg7RR4h

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) December 24, 2022

That’s a bit awkward.

59 mins ago

The Context will be returning in 2023.

59 mins ago

It’s been an eventful year for DeFi.

“It’s become a mainstream tech firm — we’re getting people from Google, Facebook, Snapchat,” a current American employee of TikTok told @NYTMag. “It no longer feels in any way like a pariah Chinese company.” Inside the the world’s biggest virality machine. https://t.co/N2fHPkWx2n

— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 20, 2022

TikTok.

57 mins ago

Soy el fuego que arde tu piel…

56 mins ago

NEW – A Russian dark web drug market has been hacked by a Ukrainian in Wisconsin, who has harvested a load of data on its users and stolen $25k in bitcoin due to dealers and the site owners.

The money has been donated to a Ukrainian charity.https://t.co/lGZ08cgD4V

— Thomas Brewster (@iblametom) December 22, 2022

It’s Christmas.

54 mins ago

Michael Bloomberg is making moves.

53 mins ago

The saga continues

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NEW INVESTIGATION finds that low income neighbourhoods throughout the Netherlands have been singled out and run through secretive algorithms to detect welfare fraud. Netherlands hasn’t shaken its addiction to “digital dystopia” experiments https://t.co/sfPiLu7YMR

— Lighthouse Reports (@LHreports) December 20, 2022

The algo addiction.

52 mins ago

ICYMI

52 mins ago

The best of the worst.

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What’s on your list?

This post will be updated over the weekend. You can follow us on Twitter and Google News or listen to our investigative podcast Innovated: Blockchain City.