Molly White - Citation Needed

Portrait of Bill Pulte, superimposed with his “SO ORDERED” tweet about crypto and mortgages

Crypto recaps

Issue 87 – SO ORDERED

Trump’s crypto empire attracts more foreign millions, the FHFA pushes crypto on mortgage lenders, and Mamdani’s mayoral primary win makes billionaires sweat

Crypto recaps

Issue 86 – State power sponsored by Coinbase

The GENIUS Act passes the Senate after explicit threats to Democrats from the crypto lobby, and shady crypto billionaire Justin Sun cozies up even closer to the Trump family

It matters. I care.

Giving up on the idea that truth matters is not just cynicism, it’s surrender.

Extremely tangled diagram depicting relationships between LLCs, major companies, the Trump family, Bill Zanker, and various other individuals, and various crypto projects

Crypto recaps

Issue 85 – All the President’s tokens

As Trump’s web of crypto projects gets tangled up in itself, a regulator warns of “regulatory Jenga” in the crypto sector that echoes the 2008 financial crisis

UPDATED: Trump to launch branded crypto trading application

New crypto trading and wallet application, created in partnership with Magic Eden, invites fans of President Trump to buy his memecoin; Trump sons deny any involvement or knowledge

Chat bubble from phone: “Unless you take extreme action, you’re going to be filtered, ignored, and rejected by 99.99% of women no matter how much “confidence” you fake.”

Artificial intelligence

OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men

OpenAI's featured chatbot recommends $200,000 in surgeries while promoting incel ideology

Crypto recaps

Issue 84 – Rogue overseas support agents

Coinbase’s substantial data breach coincides with a convenient terms of service update, while the GENIUS Act stablecoin bill regains momentum in the Senate

Collage of Senator Elizabeth Warren speaking into a bullhorn, and Senator Richard Blumenthal speaking into a microphone

Crypto recaps

Issue 83 – Trump’s crypto-backed plan to auction off access to the White House

Trump’s crypto conflicts continue to multiply as Democratic legislators demand ethics inquiries and block industry-backed bills

Clockwise from top left: “Ogle”, “INBUM” from BugsCoin, “Booblino”, Justin Sun (center) and two representatives of MemeCore

Meet Trump’s memecoin dinner guests

Trump's crypto-for-access dinner triggers broad ethics alarms, and 73% non-US attendance raises fresh concerns over foreign influence

A banner reading “Have Dinner with President Trump”, featuring an uncanny AI illustration of a much younger-looking Trump pointing at the viewer

Crypto recaps

Issue 82 – E-moluments

As Celsius victims detail their devastation even under the weak crypto regulations of the past, the Trump administration continues to dismantle those same rules while he pumps his personal memecoin with promises of private access

Trump sitting in a chair atop a large pile of coins

Trump’s newest grift: Building a cryptocurrency empire while destroying its regulators

Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it

Todd Blanche wearing a suit amid a throng of reporters

Crypto recaps

Issue 81 – Crypto crime is legal

Trump continues to dismantle crypto enforcement while expanding his personal crypto empire

A photograph of the White House, photoshopped with a Bitcoin flag flying above it

Crypto recaps

Issue 80 – Aimed at benefiting the digital assets industry

As the US government lays a very favorable groundwork for the crypto industry, Trump positions himself for maximum personal profit

“Mundus sine Caesaribus” in dark grey, all-caps, gothic font on a black background

Crypto recaps

Issue 79 – Mundus sine Caesaribus

The crypto industry frees itself from the last remnants of SEC oversight, and Solana tries to appeal to its target demographic by bashing trans people

A digital collage depicting a vampire biting onto a laptop displaying the Wikipedia homepage

Artificial intelligence

“Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI

The real threat isn’t AI using open knowledge — it’s AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free

An open bank vault, with a bitcoin symbol within the vault

Crypto reserves: no public good, no principles

The formerly anti-establishment bitcoin movement abandons its principles in favor of number-go-up, applauds federal plan to stockpile seized crypto with no clear benefit to national interest