Mustafa Al-Bassam was a teenage hacktivist who outsmarted a US government contractor, shamed the Westboro Baptist Church, hacked Sony a record number of times, and eventually got arrested—though his 80 transgressions got halved for a funny reason.

At the Modular Summit in Brussels, Laura had a fireside chat with Mustafa to discuss how he went from his teenage years as the head of LulzSec and member of Anonymous to founding Celestia, a project aiming to solve key issues in blockchain scalability by going with a modular approach.

He also discussed data availability sampling, why he believes Celestia has achieved significant product-market fit since its launch, and the three key components of Celestia’s road map.

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Host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the news in the crypto industry from the increasing amount of staked ether to lawmakers' failure to overturn President Biden's veto.

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"CoinDesk Daily" host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the biggest headlines in the crypto industry today, as U.S. lawmakers failed to overturn President Joe Biden's veto in the saga to override the SEC's crypto accounting policy, SAB 121. Plus, the total amount of staked ether nears an all-time high, and Morgan Creek Digital plans to raise up to $500 million for a new Web3 fund.

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and Melissa Montañez and edited by Victor Chen.

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What should mining stock shareholders look for in a stock? We chat with TeraWulf CFO Patrick Fleury.

Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today we are joined by Patrick Fleury, the CFO of publicly traded mining company TeraWulf to discuss public mining markets, TeraWulf itself and how mining shareholders should think about Bitcoin mining companies!

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:24 Patrick's background

05:08 Terawulf partnerships

09:17 Financials

16:38 Nondisclosure is bull$#!T

20:15 Shareholder dilution

27:01 Issuing equity at a terahash value

35:27 Current lab projects

40:58 Terawulf lines of business

46:48 Cloud & GPU contracts

52:44 Energy contracts as assets

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