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Dearest Operating Systems,
There's a twinge of fall in the air and a looming sense that the bear market just may be over but in the meantime be grateful that that NFT guy is finally talking about other things, Kathy Wood says Bitcoin is going to 100K by tomorrow, and North Korea adopted stolen bitcoin as legal tender. Despite the rigamarole, we keep shipping amidst this existential experience known as crypto-life. Why?
Because Taylor Swift X Travis Kelce launched a temporarily awesome project, Michael Saylor bought The Fed for one bitcoin, and Charles Hoskinson has been hiding the Cardano whitepaper in somebody's backyard. Friggin' Charles...
Not to mention, we are proudly introducing The Mostly Credible News Update (MCNU) complete with balderdash headlines and cinematic panache from The Rug's Allyn Bryce. And, Friend Tech is killin' it with the post what you put on Twitter anyway strategy, Bitboy started a cult, and Solana holders approved their own ETF.
To top it all off, Perchy's latest NFT featured The Rug and an article in Decrypt had @humandao thinking it was a headline from The Rug. *Dusts off shoulder*
What are you waiting for? A bull market...
Less go,
If Stephen Colbert and John Stewart had a baby, that'd be weird. But so is The Rug's Mostly Credible News Update. Brought to you twice a month(ish) by The Rug's Allyn Bryce, with a little help from his friends. Don't miss the first MCNU which racked up 5K views on Twitter (we don't call it X).
WASHINGTON — SEC Gary Gensler is cracking down on the US Dollar. Gensler stated in a recent press conference that the “so-called USD” is a danger to our fiscal prosperity. Co-presenting at the event was FED chair Jerome Powell who... [cont. reading]
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TYSONS CORNER — Tech mogul Michael Saylor wants to buy The Federal Reserve. Inside sources say Jerome Powell met with Saylor at his offices in Virginia last week... [cont reading]
KANSAS CITY — Kansas City Chiefs' star Tight End, Travis Kelce, and global superstar, Taylor Swift, are taking their relationship to the next level. Their newly launched digital currency, aptly named "Temporary," is creating waves of curiosity and speculation in... [cont. reading]
BOULDER — For the last seven years, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has been sneaking into my backyard, between midnight and 4 a.m., and hiding the Cardano whitepaper, and I’m... [cont. reading]
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