This Week on Crypto Twitter: NBA Stars Buy Bitcoin, Vitalik Welcomes Trolls, FWB DAO Ejects a Co-Founder

In final week’s Crypto Twitter roundup, we included, “Desperate Housewives” star Eva Longoria’s open announcement that she was “jumping into the #NFT space.” She had requested her 7 million followers for recommendation on the place to start out, and the replies have been predictably filled with people shilling her their NFT initiatives.

She didn’t dally. On Monday, she modified her profile image to her first NFT buy: a World of Women NFT. World of Women is a group of illustrations by artist Yam Karkai “featuring 10,000 artworks of diverse and powerful women” in line with the description. (Karkai made Decrypt’s checklist of the most revolutionary NFT artists of 2021.)

Longoria joins Reese Witherspoon as a World of Women holder. And whether or not it was due to Longoria shopping for in, or due to the gathering signing with Guy Oseary for Hollywood status (simply as Bored Ape Yacht Club has), the worth ground surged this week.

Andre and Klay go crypto

NBA legend Andre Iguodala introduced on Monday that he and Golden State Warriors teammate Klay Thompson are taking a part of their salaries in Bitcoin through cellular cost service Cash App. 

The two NBA stars be a part of an extended checklist of professional athletes who’ve put a part of their wage into Bitcoin, together with Aaron Rodgers, Odell Beckham Jr., Russell Okung, and Trevor Lawrence. (FTX investor and pitchman Tom Brady has stated he’d “love to request that,” however hasn’t.)

Not everybody applauded the transfer. University of Toronto legislation professor Anna Su responded: “love you and Klay but hope you can use your platform to advocate for more sustainable crypto mining practices. no future if crypto ends up destroying the planet.”

Vitalik asks to get roasted

On Thursday, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin created some enjoyable for all when he swallowed his pleasure and shared among the cruellest roasting he’s obtained on Twitter, and likewise requested for extra: “What are the craziest and most unhinged criticisms of me you’ve seen on twitter or elsewhere?”

Some of the jokes have been very darkish, like one from consumer @FirstFedora: “His destiny was to shoot up a school, alas he failed.” Many respondents teased Vitalik’s skinny body, like this from @XRPmemeguy: “The most positive part of Vitalik going to jail is he will finally get 3 square meals a day.” 

But our favourite was this innocent wordplay gag on “italic” Buterin, which was our meme of the week within the Decrypt weekend debrief e-mail on Saturday.

Buterin additionally posted a sequence of polls asking his Ethereum-loving followers which altcoins they’d use in a world with out Ethereum. In the primary spherical, the choices have been Bitcoin, USDC, Solana, and Cardano. Surprisingly, Cardano beat out Bitcoin with 43% of the 600,000 votes to Bitcoin’s 38%. 

Buterin then requested the identical query in one other ballot, this time with completely different choices: TRON, Binance Coin, Neo, and China’s digital yuan (CNY). TRON was the clear winner, netting 51% of the 359,000 votes, greater than double every other possibility’s votes. 

FWB boots one in every of its personal

Tuesday introduced what might be a touchstone second for the way forward for how decentralized organizations cope with points round member conduct—and all of it performed out on Twitter.

It began when 25-year-old Cooper Turley, a mega-influencer in DAO land, tweeted: “What you do after 8PM shows how badly you want to win.” Jackson Dame, a fellow crypto influencer who does group and content material for Rainbow pockets, known as out Turley’s tweet for selling unhealthy work-life stability—one thing Turley’s tweets had been criticized for up to now. Dame known as Turley a “bad influence.”

Dame then discovered and tweeted a few of Turley’s tweets from highschool, which included repeated use of the n-word and homophobic slurs. 

Turley apologized for the tweets on Wednesday morning, saying, “Back then, I developed a terrible habit of casually using racial and homophonic slurs to fit in.” He wrote “they were unacceptable and deeply hurtful. I was young, stupid and careless. That does not discount how horrible these remarks were, and still are.”

By Friday, the favored DAO Friends With Benefits (FWB), a crypto-backed social membership that Turley helped create, introduced that after a committee vote, Turley’s removing from the DAO’s management and likewise his suspension as a member for 2 “seasons.”

FWB’s actions met with their very own criticism from those that really feel it was a step too far for a decentralized crypto group besides a member over tweets from 9 years in the past.

Turley has introduced he’ll take a step again from the various DAOs he’s concerned in, however this isn’t prone to be the top of the dialogue round this occasion. It raises essential questions for a way crypto communities will cope with comparable controversies.