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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.
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.
FollowTheCrypto.org: A new project to track cryptocurrency industry spending to influence 2024 elections in the United States.
How will recent Supreme Court decisions affect the crypto world? Also, more absurdity from the crypto lobby, and some new regulatory actions.
The crypto industry jumps on the Trump train.
Are US legislators warming to crypto? The SEC approves Ethereum ETPs, and a crypto bill gets through the House.
As election season kicks into high gear, we need to watch how cryptocurrency companies are influencing US politics.
I am more worried about privacy than crypto crime.
The Justice Department worries about the stability of Ethereum, DCG tries to bilk their subsidiary's creditors, and Biden threatens a crypto veto.
Changpeng Zhao's sentencing, FOIA requests reveal past FBI investigations into Coinbase, and the SEC is on a Wells notice bender.
Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.
The Binance CEO's sentencing draws near, and prosecutors have been busy chasing down other crypto criminals. Also, lawmakers take another stab at stablecoin regulation.
AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a "kind of useful" tool justifies the harm.
The bitcoin "halving" looms, and that may not be as good news as coiners hope. Also, Terra committed fraud and Uniswap got a Wells notice.
An interview with Ryder Ripps, a defendant in the Yuga Labs v. Ripps case about Bored Ape Yacht Club trademark infringement and racism.
Crypto-related litigation is in full swing, as the Terra civil fraud trial has kicked off and two other cases against crypto companies have survived motions to dismiss.
"The judgment has to adequately reflect the seriousness of the crime, and this was a very serious crime."
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Sam Bankman-Fried maintains that his crimes were victimless and resulted in zero losses, and therefore warrant only six years of imprisonment. Prosecutors argue that 40–50 years are justified.
Weekly recaps
Euphoria has risen along with crypto prices, but nothing has changed from the last bubble.
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Bitcoin prices are spiking. Are we in for another round of crypto mania? Also, Sam Bankman-Fried doesn't want to go to jail for 100 years.
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What will we do if Wikipedia falls to the type of AI-generated garbage that seems to be proliferating on the web? The number one thing you can do is learn to edit, and I will walk you through how to get started in only 30 minutes.
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It's been a quiet few weeks in the world of crypto disasters... too quiet.
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"Ownership" means ten different things to ten different people. Let's talk about what we actually want.
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Prominent crypto venture capitalist Chris Dixon provides an unconvincing bible for blockchain solutionists.
Weekly recaps
Governments seize huge quantities of bitcoin, and a few people seem to be yearning for the days of peak crypto mania.
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Bitcoin ETP approval, God-sent crypto scammers, and more trouble in Justin Sun's world.
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In December, not long after the Department of Justice announced charges against cryptocurrency giant Binance and its CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, I started writing up an overview of everything that had happened to the company over the past few years. I'd written separately about a lot
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I migrated Citation Needed from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. Here is exactly how I did that.
Weekly recaps
Bitcoin ETF fakeouts, imaginary CEOs, and a bridge hack make for an eventful start to the new year.
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Citation Needed is no longer hosted on Substack. Welcome to my antifascist bar.
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All my "absolute top tier apes" gone, anti-rug-pull rug pulls, and an update on this newsletter.
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A collective letter to Substack leadership.
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Cheating chess-players, cursed mansions, and more defi centralization.