Wong Joon Ian @joonian Twitter profile

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Wong Joon Ian

@joonian

1 year

Wow this is how you know HK is serious about becoming a crypto hub

Hong Kong Put Pressure on 3 Major Banks to Take On Crypto Exchanges as Clients: Report

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority put pressure on HSBC, Standard Chartered and Bank of China, according to the Financial Times.

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I guess it’s starting... #Consensus2019

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@amerhadiazmi It bolsters Mahathir’s life force through cosmic vibrations

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Has the cryptosphere read this? the author of The Social Network is now a bitcoin believer — and thinks the Winklevii will have the last laugh over Zuck because of crypto

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5 years

How do people in crypto find the time to listen to so many podcasts?

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3 years

I don’t really get Elon musk’s argument that the state is a poor capital allocator when his businesses rely on capital allocated by… the state?

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4 years

Why can’t bitcoin people have fun staying rich? Instead they insist on attacking anyone who has a critical thought on the matter.

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7 years

We visited Bitmain's bitcoin and litecoin mine in Ordos, Inner Mongolia last week

Photos: Inside one of the world’s largest bitcoin mines

Fifty Bitmain staff, many of them local to Ordos, watch over eight buildings crammed with 25,000 machines that are cranking through calculations 24 hours a day.

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4 years

I love the argument that TikTok should be owned by a US tech company to preserve user privacy 🤣

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7 years

The proverbial breaking news: LINE, the chat app with over 200 million users, is starting a cryptocurrency exchange

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2 years

Twitter could conceivably go full crypto now

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6 years

And I’ve rejoined the good folks at @CoinDesk on the business side as managing director for Europe and Asia 😅

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6 years

Looks like that Goldman crypto trading desk is becoming a reality by @TMacheel

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7 years

We fixed email spam because email is an open protocol and people were free to build their own clients. How can we fix Facebook spam if it's closed and only Facebook can look at the wiring?

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4 years

I interviewed @ResearchBTS to learn more about ARMY for @rally_io Pacenotes this week

Pacenotes: Diving into the BTS ARMY

Picking up from the last edition of Pacenotes from before the break, I wanted to delve deeper into the world of BTS fandom.

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3 years

i just want to freelance for DAOs

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5 years

Incredible

SoftBank Founder Masayoshi Son Lost $130 Million on Bitcoin

Masayoshi Son made a huge personal bet on bitcoin just as prices peaked, losing more than $130 million when he sold out.

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3 years

crypto is so fast moving and so complicated now, i think we need protocol tours. pay someone to explain all the protocol concepts, take you around to meet all the teams, and attend a protocol devcon safari to cap it all off.

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4 years

It's my last day at CoinDesk and it was a great one to end on. Just in the last week we: *Assembled a cast of Ethereum faces to talk about five years of the world computer *Published a (hopefully) funny deepfake *Used an NFT paywall to hide it Fun times, CD fam✌️

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4 years

Kinda amazing how crypto twitter went from early-corona-prepper-twitter to corona-is-fake-news-and-kills-our-freedoms-twitter in 90 days

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3 years

I wish to purchase some $MONG

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7 years

wow... huge get @coindesk

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7 years

. @ARKInvest cryptoasset framework

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7 years

Best Satoshi theory to date. Bitcoin was created by an AI. —Source: UFO Today YouTube channel

Was bitcoin created by AI? Shock claim robots taking over the world

BITCOIN’S anonymous creator is known in the cryptocurrency circles as Satoshi Nakamoto, but it has now been spectacularly claimed the digital token was in fact started by malevolent and sentient...

www.express.co.uk

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6 years

Token issuers are now trying to find utility for their utility tokens

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2 years

The next serious crypto media publication can’t be owned by an individual. We’ve seen it doesn’t work. It has to be on-chain. Owned by smart contract.

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6 years

My takeaway from @jack ’s appearance earlier at #consensus18

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3 years

So awesome to visit @coingecko HQ today. Incredible story by @bobbyong @tmlee and their crew. Legends!

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7 years

The ever bountiful intersection of Jamie Dimon and bitcoin

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4 years

Who likes MMT on my feed? 50 pages into Stephanie Kelton’s book and my mind is already blown.

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4 years

🔔I started . It's a resource for people who want to do the crucial social, community and support work required for blockchains to function. I've started with @masonnystrom 's piece on how he got a job in crypto. What else should be there?

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2 years

In the midst of all this, can we just remember that this all started with serious solid reporting from @IanAllison123 at @CoinDesk ? This is why we need serious crypto media, frens. Think about it next time you bash a reporter.

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7 years

lol.. is ripple affecting public markets now

Bloomberg Technology

@technology

7 years

Seagate falls after providing few details on its stake in Ripple

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6 years

La Croix tastes horrible. What’s wrong with Americans

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7 years

Here's the live feed of the US senate committee hearing on ~ crypto ~ starting in five mins. Current bitcoin price: $7k

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3 years

is email the most ignored communications channel today?

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5 years

Hello 7k #Consensus2019

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6 months

Biggest winner at ethdenver: Uber

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6 years

You know something about ethereum, but how much do you know about @NEO_Blockchain ? The two chains meet to talk platforms, communities, and ecosystems.

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4 years

paypal really needs to get rid of litecoin and bitcoin cash lol.

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6 years

Massive. It’s either the end of the crypto infrastructure phase and the start of the app layer and mainstream adoption... or it’s an AOL moment

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JUST IN: Crypto Unicorn Bitmain Weighs $18 Billion IPO, One of World's Largest

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6 years

Everyone has a crypto newsletter

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3 years

tell me about eip 1559 without telling me about eip 1559

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5 years

The Winklevoss twins are #spedn -ing their coins at the #Consensus2019 expo 🛶

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4 years

Wow incredibly low infection rate within households. If one spouse is infected, less than 30% chance of other spouse getting it.

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4 years

🔔Hello friends, I have some personal news...

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5 years

Excited to welcome @Bakkt to the Invest: Asia agenda in Singapore in two weeks. Just days after its bitcoin warehouse opens for business on Sept 6, and shortly before its futures contracts launch. #InvestAsia

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6 years

Hello friends I have some personal news... 🙃

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3 years

everyone ends up in crypto, eventually.

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4 years

Sex orgy ethereum is the best thing i've seen on crypto tweetur today

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6 years

. @BITMAINtech took three weeks to close a $110 million deal in @circlepay where they were lead investor, @JihanWu tells me

The biggest bitcoin miner is turning into a venture-capital juggernaut

It did the deal in three weeks.

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4 years

Who knew so many people cared about digital art? Or cared about art at all? lol

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1 month

Bring back the cypherpunks, at least they had a coherent political worldview

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4 years

@PiCoreTeam @ACJRnetwork thanks! are nicolas kokkalis and chengdiao fan really involved in pi network? how come it's not mentioned on his stanford bio page?

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4 years

So pleased to take the wraps off this today: an group for journalists and researchers covering this crazy world we call crypto.

Crypto journalists form organization - Talking Biz News

A group of veteran cryptocurrency journalists comprising representatives from the sector’s largest publishing firms – The Block, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Decrypt and Forbes Crypto – formally launched...

talkingbiznews.com

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3 years

'dawn of the eth killers' such a telling chart from @RobertoTalamas @WilsonWithiam @MessariCrypto analysts blow me away with their smarts.. if you don't subscribe, do it now!

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4 months

I can’t believe I’m at a bitcoin conference

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5 years

The BSV delisting is an interesting test of who controls a coin: it’s community, the exchanges who list it, the developers who support it?

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6 years

A CFTC commissioner is *very* bullish on crypto /ht @ofnumbers

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7 years

Bitfinex is suspending trading of EOS and ICO tokens generally in response to SEC

Bitfinex

@bitfinex

7 years

New Post: "Service changes for U.S. customers”

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7 years

Well at least people won't complain about centralisation any more?

A Tokyo-listed company is spending over $3 million to get into bitcoin mining

It will trigger an arms race in the bitcoin mining industry.

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4 years

my bet: singapore

Spiral

@spiralbtc

4 years

The question isn't which company will add bitcoin to their treasury next, but which government.

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6 years

Impressive and disturbing piece on Tether trading activity on Kraken from @mattleising and co

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3 years

guidelines on permissible speech at a bitcoin conf is a new one

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4 years

Bitcoin maxis who made all their money from ICOs 🤣🤣😂🤭

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4 years

This is a pretty stunning crypto media/data chart, IMO. @coingecko turned a ~25m views gap with @CoinMarketCap into an ~8m views gap in six months. And CG beats CMC on search referral traffic, which suggests momentum is strongly on CG's side.

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3 years

🔥 Hot off the press: “✍️Covering the Crypto Media Boom” (via @revue )

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7 years

Top kitty price already out of date

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7 years

The wannacry hackers waited until after the bitcoin cash fork to move their coins. nice 20% premium!

The hackers behind the WannaCry ransomware attack have finally cashed out

Few expected the money would ever move out of the accounts, as they were surely watched by law-enforcement agencies around the world.

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4 years

Crypto Twitter is eating Twitter based on how all my non CT follows are now also tweeeting about NFTs

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4 years

I'm increasingly hearing about a crypto project called @PiCoreTeam , but only from non-crypto people. It names Stanford folks who are in the blockchain community there as founders. Can anyone shed some light on it? We are also discussing this in @ACJRnetwork Telegram.

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5 years

It's going to be hard for crypto journalists to top this lede. ever. via @Ben_Munster on @davidgerard

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6 years

Finally

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7 years

‘A-ha! *This* is why bitcoin’s price won’t keep rising!’ — newspaper columnists discovering the block size limit for the first time

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4 years

friends, where can i see a list of people who make physical crypto art?

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7 years

The difference between bitcoin and ethereum, according to Vitalik

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7 years

@tomgara @flashboy Australia is terrifyingly right wing

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6 years

Jihan tells Bloomberg that Bitmain booked $2.5 billion in revenues last year; not opposed to a HK or US listing

Crypto's 32-Year-Old Billionaire Mining King Mulls an IPO

With his baby face, eyeglasses and go-to outfit of T-shirt, jeans and sneakers, Jihan Wu looks more like a geeky teenager than a self-made billionaire.

www.bloomberg.com

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8 years

This is weird but the Trump administration is going to be stocked with pro bitcoin people. @balajis and Mick Mulvaney among them

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6 years

wow coinbase got a bank account with barclays in the UK via @LilyKatz

Coinbase Gets a U.K. Money License and Barclays Bank Account

Coinbase Inc., one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, said it obtained an e-money license in the U.K. as it expands services in Europe. The firm also opened an account at Barclays Plc, easing...

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10 months

@duncanrobinson ‘If you’re so smart why don’t you call a referendum’

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3 years

when udi and hasu both say a thing is not correct, it probably is not correct

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4 years

I feel like @SorareHQ is the biggest european startup at the moment /cc @Siftedeu

Paris-based Sorare raises a €40 million Series A to help fans own their football passion online |...

Sorare, the digital collectible football platform, today announces that it has received €40 million in Series A financing, led by Benchmark, with

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4 years

So just today we have: -$700m+ bitcoin buy by a UK mutual fund -$1b+ eth and btc buy by howard marks backed hedge fund -guggenheim partners CIO says they have btc $400k price target 🤯🤯🤯

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3 years

People are discovering ENS… now?

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6 years

~$300 billion worth of cryptocoins have their code hosted on github #decentralisation

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6 years

Who’s in New York for all teh blockchain things?

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6 years

TLDR: I’ve gone full crypto... again!

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5 years

Overheard in Shoreditch: “we’re working with this new client called IBM, they’re quite big... They’re big in sports... data analytics stuff”

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4 years

@NeerajKA useful for opening jammed wework doors

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2 years

the pic is kind of awkward, but they got my name right, and i actually did start Consensus, so come along and see you in Austin. hard to believe how far this event has come since we did a 600 person one-day conference in 2015.

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. @joonian helped create the very first Consensus festival in 2015 and he returns for #Consensus2022 . His work is to make crypto journalism accessible to all.

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Fascinating look at a group of crypto miners with the ultimate edge: free electricity—They’re college students who mine in their dorm rooms. By @_KarenHao

The secret lives of students who mine cryptocurrency in their dorm rooms

Free electricity makes it worth it.

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8 years

@BBCBreaking @mattburgess1 it's tough when you are desperate and have no leverage... #brexit 🤔

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3 years

The Block is now effectively owned by its management and employees, with no outside investors. A strong signal of its desire for independent journalism and research, in a space dominated by crypto publications owned by powerful incumbents.

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3 years

so no joke we have a session at @MessariCrypto on the future of defi with: @StaniKulechov @rleshner @RuneKek @Diane_0320 @AndreCronjeTech moderated by @QwQiao 🔥🔥🔥 Come for the alpha, stay for the galaxy brain convos

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7 years

I turned on twitter notifications for @Coindesk to wait for bitcoin 10k 😰

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5 years

Can we create a DAO for the news?

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6 years

tfw you realise you're that guy in the shoreditch cafe talking about cryptoeconomics and accredited investors on a google hangout

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7 years

I visited this facility the other day

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3 years

This timeline is getting stranger

Congressman Brad Sherman

@BradSherman

3 years

I may not agree with everyone in the crypto community, or the emerging mongoose community, on each aspect of financial services regulation. But all of us are united in our concern for the people of Kentucky. (1/2)

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