It is customary for a writer to leave their job, then start a Substack. So here I am doing that cringe, customary thing after being laid off in the Blockworks newsroom shutdown yesterday.TwitterMy time at BlockworksI joined Blockworks in July 2024 and spent 15 months as a “reporter”. Prior to Blockworks, I was a “newsletter writer” for ~18 months at BanklessHQ. The question I got most often at Blockworks: Can we do a paid article with you? Apparently, people think this is how the conversation...