Reminder: the best era of crypto had no conferences.
The conferences were Discord servers.
Today, conferences are great to chill with friends and strengthen relationships
or get pitched a new chain, an RPC, a security audit, or token listing from a 7th-tier CEX.
Which is

I wonder how much Covid shaped crypto.
Back then, the online degen friends we made were everything.
Crypto felt like a cult: degens, hentai, anons, smart shitposters.
Crypto was identity.
Covid forced us to be terminally online, and we built the industry around it.
Maybe

Dan Rysk

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Just now, a historic "closed-door" event occurred in the AI community.

Anthropic has officially banned access to OpenClaw using its own subscription plan!!!

Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, announced: Starting at 3 PM EST on April 4th (3 AM Beijing time on April 5th), Claude will block all third-party tools; access to these tools will only be available through additional subscription plans or APIs.

[OpenClaw] This means that thousands of users who rely on OpenClaw for improvements...

Anthropic officially blocks OpenClaw, causing a global developer crisis within 24 hours.

The most visible bitcoin buyers in the world are buying at near-record pace. It is not enough.
A CryptoQuant weekly report showed overall 30-day apparent demand at negative 63,000 $BTC as of late Marc...

Five data sources say the same thing about bitcoin market. It's thinning from the inside

Boris Cherny, head of the Anthropic Claude Code, announced that starting in April 2026 [...]
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