Welcome to the 93rd Weekend Shift!

What’s the deal? Over the weekend, we’ll update this post with some of the most interesting articles, podcasts, charts, and opinion pieces we’re too busy to write about.

OK, only crypto? Not necessarily. We do that Monday to Friday, so we try to explore new subjects on weekends.

Feel free to join in and submit entries on Twitter. Any topic is fair game.

November 12

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NEW: Twitter has suspended the launch of Twitter Blue and is actively trying to stop people from subscribing “to help address impersonation issues,” per an internal note. 1/

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 11, 2022

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Lol dude I went on your show once, and you were probably the worst interviewer that I’ve ever shared a screen with in my life

— Cory Swan | PacificBitcoin.com (@coryklippsten) November 9, 2022

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Looks like BlockFi is completely dead. Internal Slack deactivated, people tell me they stored almost all customer deposits on FTX

— foobar (@0xfoobar) November 11, 2022

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FTX also had an aggressive ground game in rural Africa and huge investments in African fintech.

They were onboarding people like crazy in places that didn’t have stable banking access.

I can’t even imagine how some of these people are feeling right now.

Devastating.

— Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) November 11, 2022

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Controversial DJ Diplo will headline a “Get Out to Vote” event with Rick Caruso ahead of the highly contested local election next Tuesday. https://t.co/X1I6PywqNy

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) November 4, 2022

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Meta, the parent company of Facebook, said it was laying off more than 11,000 workers after a steep slide in digital ad revenue and profit.

“I want to take accountability for these decisions and for how we got here,” Mark Zuckerberg said.https://t.co/byHmrpQI4U pic.twitter.com/kK97PBNGJL

— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 9, 2022

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In response to a tweet from Isaiah Jackson that made an anti-Semitic, hurtful statement, CoinDesk is immediately terminating his contract for his weekly Community Crypto show on CoinDesk TV. 🧵

— CoinDesk (@CoinDesk) November 11, 2022

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