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Fighting for our web

A talk from XOXO

The FTX Files

Caroline Ellison: A woman with agency or a helpless pawn?

Why did the former Alameda Research CEO receive only two years imprisonment for her role in the FTX collapse?

A post by Molly on her microblog, syndicated to Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky

Better web

POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world

A simple technique offers the best of both worlds: total control over your own work, while still maintaining a presence on third-party platforms.

A sheet of lined paper with a “bug out” list, and a photo of a rucksack hanging from a tree

Weekly recaps

Issue 67 – Bug out bitcoin

Crypto resurfaces on the campaign trail and the FTX fallout continues to unfold. Also, merch!

A collage of a Stratios ship from Eve Online, the Flappy Bird bird, and Hamster Kombot tokens

Issue 66 – Pretensions to relevance

FTX fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried says he wants a do-over, and some more ill-received blockchain games suggest “GameFi” has an uncertain future.

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Better web

Big publishers think libraries are the enemy

The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the war on libraries and the freedom to read.

Weekly recaps

Issue 65 – World Liberty Fiasco

Even the most pro-Trump crypto faithful think Trump’s new crypto scheme is a terrible idea.

Screenshot of the annotation of Paradigm’s poll

Crypto lobby

Polling: Are Democratic voters really “increasingly gravitating towards crypto”?

Paradigm has polled some Democratic voters about crypto and released a summary of their results. How does it stack up to other industry polls, which are often heavily manipulated to paint a deceptively rosy picture?

Kamala Harris in a blue suit sits on a chair looking into the distance, in front of a cartoon Bitcoin background

Weekly recaps

Issue 64 – Pointing its arsenal at our friends

As parts of the crypto industry scramble to court the Harris administration with events like “Crypto4Harris”, others insist it is Harris who must “bend the knee”.

Weekly recaps

Issue 63 – RobConf 2024

Coinbase responds to campaign finance violation allegations, Trump panders to bitcoiners, and I chat with Lyn Alden about sexism in bitcoin.

Crypto lobby

Coinbase appears to have violated campaign finance laws with a $25 million super PAC donation

Actively involved in contract negotiations with a federal government agency, Coinbase was likely prohibited from making its $25 million contribution to the Fairshake cryptocurrency-focused super PAC in May 2024.

A person dropping an orange envelope with a white bitcoin symbol into a ballot box

Crypto lobby

When did cryptocurrency policy become a voter issue?

I don’t believe that it has.

Weekly recaps

Issue 62 – Grassroots

Coinbase’s Stand With Crypto Alliance fudges the numbers, a (former) crypto industry CEO has a meltdown, and another exchange suffers a nine-figure hack.

Crypto lobby

Follow the Crypto

FollowTheCrypto.org: A new project to track cryptocurrency industry spending to influence 2024 elections in the United States.

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Weekly recaps

Issue 61 – Soft war by the enemy

How will recent Supreme Court decisions affect the crypto world? Also, more absurdity from the crypto lobby, and some new regulatory actions.

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss on stage. One of them is wearing a Rage Against the Machine t-shirt.

Weekly recaps

Issue 60 – Raging in favor of the machine

The crypto industry jumps on the Trump train.