I received sooo much love and support bcf this cringy post...
Posted it half-jokingly to cope with rejection, but made me connect with a bunch of insanely talented creators and marketers 🩷
So… should we start an a16z New Media Reject Club?
Comment if you are in : )

I am excited to announce that I applied for @a16z new media fellowship and got rejected 🥳
As a crypto storyteller(shitposter), my life is all about 'new media'.
I left Reuters and China Daily, because stories felt told. Jumped to VC/crypto, where the chaos writes itself in

Julie Chen

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The most visible bitcoin buyers in the world are buying at near-record pace. It is not enough.
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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 [...]
The article, "Anthropic Subscribes to Claude Code and Bans OpenClaw Lobster! From Now On, Third-Party Tools Will Only Be Available with Paid Quotas," was originally published on BlockTempo, the most influential blockchain ABMedia media.

Anthropic's subscription to Claude Code has banned OpenClaw! From now on, third-party tools will only be available with a paid subscription.

The current crypto market is in a crucial transitional phase. After months of correction, Bitcoin has recently rebounded slightly and retested a key support level it had previously breached. However, overall, the market recovery remains fragile, and the trend remains vulnerable. Accumulating macroeconomic pressures, weakening liquidity, and approaching key policy events are causing a shift in market pricing logic. Entering April, while there are seasonally stronger expectations, historical performance has been highly divergent, suggesting that market movements are more likely to be driven by liquidity, positioning, and macroeconomic catalysts, rather than simple cyclical repetition.

Support repeatedly validated: Trend fragile...