#Web3Weekly: Jan. 22–28, 2023 — This post is adapted from the latest edition of my newsletter #Web3Weekly. If you would like to receive it in your inbox every Sunday, subscribe here. The headlines have been mostly dismal lately for tech’s 800-pound gorillas: Google is laying off staff and fighting a new antitrust suit from U.S…

#Web3Weekly: Jan. 15–21, 2023 — This post is adapted from the latest edition of my newsletter #Web3Weekly. If you would like to receive it in your inbox every Sunday, subscribe here. I recently spotted a blessedly terse definition of web3 and how it differs from previous versions of the web: Web1 = Read Web2 =…

#Web3Weekly: Jan. 8–14, 2023 — Bitcoin gave a ray of hope to investors even as fallout from Crypto Winter continued to be starkly evident in most of the week’s other big developments. BTC saw a frenzied rally that accelerated late in the week. …

#Web3Weekly: Jan. 1–7, 2023 — This post is adapted from the latest edition of my newsletter #Web3Weekly. If you would like to receive it in your inbox every Sunday, subscribe here. I’m breaking in two new members of the newsletter’s editorial team this week. They’re both artificially intelligent bots. To be more specific, they are…

#Web3Weekly: Dec. 11–17, 2022 — This post is adapted from the latest edition of my newsletter #Web3Weekly. If you would like to receive it in your inbox every Sunday, subscribe here. Enough villains. Let’s take a break to talk about the crypto world’s good guys for a moment. The Giving Block, a fundraising platform for…

#Web3Weekly: Dec. 4–10, 2022 — This post is adapted from the latest edition of my newsletter #Web3Weekly. If you would like to receive it in your inbox every Sunday, subscribe here. CoinDesk just published its ninth annual 50 Most Influential People in Crypto list. …

#Web3Weekly: Nov. 27 to Dec. 3, 2022 — This post is adapted from the latest edition of my newsletter #Web3Weekly. If you would like to receive it in your inbox every Sunday, subscribe here. Legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee once said there is a large category of stories that are “interesting if true.” …

#Web3Weekly: Nov. 20–26, 2022 — This post is adapted from a recent edition of my newsletter #Web3Weekly. If you’d like to receive it in your inbox every Sunday, subscribe here. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but on the bright side, I am well-practiced at it: FTX had its initial hearing in…

#Web3Weekly: Nov. 13–19, 2022 — We staged a crypto conference in Miami on Thursday less than a mile from FTX Arena, which will soon be renamed for obvious reasons. Talk about juxtaposition. I use the term “we” loosely here to refer to this newsletter’s partner TechCrunch, which you’ve probably noticed has been sponsoring #Web3Weekly recently…