Sources: founder Richard Liu berated JD.com executives for poor performance and remains the undisputed decision maker despite having quit many frontline roles (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:42 Rating: 5

A look at the disastrous 2022 for NFT-based games, after interest from EA, Ubisoft, Zynga, Niantic, and others, as the community grew more niche and scam-filled (Ryan Broderick/Polygon) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

FTX says it would seek the return of its digital assets held by the Bahamas, claiming the value was ~$296M when transferred on November 12 and is now ~$167M (Nathan Crooks/The Block) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:42 Rating: 5

Italy's parliament approves a 26% tax on gains of €2,000+ from crypto trading per tax period and offers incentives for declaring crypto profits for tax purposes (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Source: Sam Bankman-Fried will likely plead not guilty to fraud and other charges at a January 3 hearing; SBF returns to Twitter to deny he moved Alameda funds (Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Crypto created a toy financial system and had a toy financial crisis; in order to work in the long run, crypto must prove its real usefulness outside of finance (Matt Levine/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft plan to connect data centers to heating systems in Europe; Meta began in 2020 in Denmark, and Google is assessing its opportunities (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5

Report: Twitter is closing its Seattle office, the company's second-largest engineering hub outside of San Francisco, asking employees to work from home instead (Taylor Soper/GeekWire) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

Sources: the FBI is investigating the leak of ~100K API keys linked to users of crypto trading service 3Commas, as a victims group claims to have lost over $20M (Sam Kessler/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:42 Rating: 5

Sources detail Elon Musk's Twitter cost-cutting measures, including closing a data center, reducing training for new staff, and canceling janitorial services (New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5