It Could Happen Here - The Cheapest Land is Bought in Blood, Part 1

Mia, Shereen, and James discuss the structure of Israeli settler colonialism and how the housing market fuels violent settler land grabs and accelerates Israel’s hard right political turn.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - UNCHAINED: Two Genesis Creditors Describe Their Frustrations With the Bankrupt Crypto Lender

In a rare interview, two Genesis creditors discuss their dealings with the lender and DCG, including the sales pitch that got them to give Genesis new loans after the 3AC debacle. 

Two Genesis creditors, BJ and Branden, who prefer to use pseudonyms for security reasons, spoke with Unchained about the alleged fraud by the crypto lender and its parent company, Digital Currency Group (DCG). The discussion is one of the first times Genesis creditors have spoken with a media organization about the situation. 

BJ and Branden explain how they gave more loans to Genesis after it took a $1.1 billion hit from the liquidation of Three Arrows Capital and how they then came to be members of the ad hoc group, a collective of Genesis customers who came together to try and save the company from bankruptcy. 

They talk about how they now want DCG to pay back the $1.1 billion it owes over a shorter timeframe and to pay back any Bitcoin in actual Bitcoin. The discussion with Unchained followed shortly after New York Attorney General Leticia James filed a lawsuit against Genesis, along with its parent company Digital Currency Group, and Gemini Trust.  

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Show highlights | 

  • What NYAG Letitia James alleged in the lawsuit against Gemini, DCG, and Genesis
  • How BJ and Branden became creditors of Genesis
  • How Genesis claimed it got into what it called a “liquidity mismatch”
  • How, after the Three Arrows Capital collapse, BJ and Branden were reassured that Genesis had "no issues" and "was back to business" 
  • Whether the trading and lending units of Genesis were all part of the same company and why that distinction is important.
  • What the difference is between the ad hoc group and an unsecured creditors committee
  • What the creditors are proposing in order to get their assets back
  • Why the creditors want to be paid in crypto, not in USD
  • Whether the case will go to litigation and what Silbert can do to avoid it


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BJ, Creditor of Genesis


Links |

Previous coverage of Unchained on Genesis and DCG:

Genesis May Be Facing Bankruptcy. Could It Take DCG Down With It?

Gemini vs. DCG Is Heating Up. Could Gemini Force Genesis Into Bankruptcy?

$630M Due Next Week: Is DCG at Default Risk?


NYAG Lawsuit

Unchained: 

NY Attorney General Sues Crypto Firms Gemini, Genesis, and DCG for Over $1 Billion Fraud

The Block:

DCG says it was 'blind sided' by NYAG suit in third quarter shareholder letter


Genesis, Gemini, DCG disputes

Unchained: 

Gemini Says DCG Missed $630 Million Payment Last Week

Cameron Winklevoss Threatens to Sue DCG and Barry Silbert Over Delays in Genesis Resolution

DCG Calls Gemini Lawsuit a ‘Publicity Stunt’ From Cameron Winklevoss

DCG Calls Gemini’s Complaint a PR Campaign in Motion to Dismiss Lawsuit

FTX and Genesis Reach $175 Million Settlement, Resolving Complex Dispute

DCG and Genesis Reach In-Principle Deal With Creditors

Gemini and Genesis Creditor Groups Object to In-Principle Deal to Resolve Bankruptcy

Genesis Winds Down its US Spot Crypto Trading Operation

Genesis Sues Parent Company DCG, Seeks Repayment of $600 Million

DCG Proposes Remuneration Plan That Could Enable Gemini Earn Users to Be Made Whole

Genesis Winds Down All Crypto Trading Services: Report

Gemini Pushes Back on DCG’s Remuneration Proposal, Calling it an ‘Attempt to Bait’ Earn Users


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The Economics of Everyday Things - 24. Pistachios

How did a little green nut become a billion-dollar product, lauded by celebrities in Super Bowl ads? Zachary Crockett cracks open the story.

 

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Consider This from NPR - A Class Action Suit Could Upend The Entire Real Estate Industry

If you have ever bought a home or are thinking about buying one, you know it can be expensive. For most people, a home is the most expensive purchase they will ever make.

But selling a home can be expensive too. In part, that's because of the commissions real estate agents collect when a home is sold.

Depending on the price of the home, commissions can be tens of thousands of dollars.

A class action lawsuit brought by a group of Missouri home sellers against the National Association of Realtors argues that these fees hurt consumers by artificially inflating home prices.

This past week, a federal jury awarded the home sellers $1.8 billion.

Adrian Ma and Wailin Wong, co-hosts of NPR's The Indicator, break down how that decision could change the entire real estate industry.

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Philosophers In Space - Helsreach and Grimdark Gamergate

In the grim dark future, there is only show notes. Are you MAN enough to pick up an absurd set of sentences and hold the line alongside literally overwrought walking metaphors? We're covering Helsreach, a fan made movie in the Warhammer 40k universe, and discussing both the philosophy of Grimdark and the interestingly related philosophy of Gamergate. We discuss why 40k is one of the last major holdouts in the Gamergate wars. 

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Motley Fool Money - Morgan Housel and History’s Unending Loop

What does it mean if history is just the same movie, playing over and over? 

Morgan Housel is a longtime Fool contributor and the bestselling author of The Psychology of Money. Dylan Lewis caught up with Morgan to talk about his latest book, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes. They discuss:

  • The not-so-helpful side effect of having fewer economic downturns
  • Why true optimists believe that the future is messy
  • Cautionary tales from companies that “got too wide”
  • And what Warren Buffett understands about storytelling.

Tickers discussed: MSFT, GM, APPL, SSU, BRK.A, BRK.B

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Lost Debate - How Elite Colleges Divide Us With Evan Mandery

Rikki is joined by Evan Mandery, professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the author of “Poison Ivy - How Elite Colleges Divide Us”. A Harvard College and Harvard Law School graduate, Evan argues elite colleges have become one of the driving forces in widening the gap between the haves and have-nots in America.


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CoinDesk Podcast Network - MARKETS DAILY: Featured Story | What Will Wall Street’s Bitcoin Narrative Be?

With Bitcoin ETFs round the corner, financial institutions are gearing up to promote BTC investing. The message is likely to obscure Bitcoin’s origins but could be useful for native-crypto companies, argue Dave Birnbaum and David Waugh, from Coinbits.

Today's episode is sponsored by CME Group and PayPal.

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NBN Book of the Day - Jeremy Howick, “The Power of Placebos: Unlocking Their Potential to Improve Health Care” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

Should your doctor prescribe a placebo for you, instead of conventional medicine? And if she did, would it work? Is the double-blind placebo-controlled paradigm really the gold standard for medical research?

Placebos are the most widely used treatments in the history of medicine. Thousands of studies show that they can be effective and make us happier and healthier. Yet confusion about what placebos are and how to measure their effects prevents some doctors from using them to help patients. Meanwhile, damage caused by the nocebo effect—the negative effect of expecting something bad—is not widely recognized.

In The Power of Placebos: Unlocking Their Potential to Improve Health Care (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023), Jeremy Howick provides an interdisciplinary perspective on placebos and nocebos based on more than twenty years of research and data from over 300,000 patients. This book, the culmination of that research, offers practical ways for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to put placebo and nocebo research into practice to improve health outcomes.

In addition to providing an overview of placebos and nocebos and explaining how belief systems and context can create physiological effects in the body, Howick advocates for a number of controversial positions, including why it may be unethical to include placebos in most clinical trials in which there are already established therapies and why physicians should consider using placebos regularly in their practices. Howick also underscores the importance of the therapeutic effects of interactions between health care practitioners and patients, in the context of care. The Power of Placebos dispels the confusion surrounding placebos and paves the way for doctors to help patients by enhancing placebo effects and avoiding the pitfalls of nocebos.

Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator and host of The New Books Network’s Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at reneeg@vanleer.org.il. She's on Twitter @embracingwisdom. She blogs here.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - Remember, Remember the 5th of November (Encore)

In 1605, members of the Catholic resistance in England hatched a plot that would have completely changed the political landscape of the country. They wanted to blow up the entire parliament and the king on November 5, which they thought would return a Catholic monarch to the throne.

The plotters got caught, and their demise has been celebrated for the last 400 years. 

Learn more about Guy Fawkes, the Gunpowder Plot, and why the fifth of November is remembered, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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