Did you guys see the moon in #SanFrancisco last night? “We live on a blue planet that circles around a ball of fire next to a moon that moves the sea, and you don’t believe in magic?” ✨

There is a huge opportunity to use #bitcoin for transactions involving voluntary carbon credits. Today the CFTC reminded market participants that Commission regulations require VCC issuers to have rules requiring their market participants to keep records of their trading that include records of their activity in the underlying commodity and related derivatives markets. Designations Contract Market participants are required, upon request, to make records of their trading in underlying VCC cash markets available to the DCM. These records also are subject to Commission inspection under applicable Commission recordkeeping rules.

Is it giving climate/crypto lawyer? ⚖️⛓️🔫

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is starting to regulate larger (i.e. annual volume of at least US$5m consumer payment transactions) nonbank companies that offer digital wallets and payment apps. I’m a lawyer. Ask me about this ⚖️🪙 📄.pdf

48 countries gearing up to regulate bitcoin and other crypto under a new international tax framework. I’m a lawyer. Ask me about this. ⚖️ 📝 https://www.oecd.org/newsroom/secretary-general-mathias-cormann-welcomes-pledge-by-48-countries-to-implement-global-tax-transparency-standard-for-crypto-assets.htm

It’s been a very bad year for Effective Altruism, the cultural movement that aims to use “evidence and reason” to figure out the best ways to do the “most good.”

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Effective Altruism Is a Welter of Lies, Hypocrisy, and Eugenic Fantasies

The multibillion-dollar Effective Altruism movement makes rich people feel good about being rich — to hell with the bad publicity.

View from my living room tonight. ♥️ SF

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