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• Molly White

Issue 88 – The stockchain

Issue 88 – The stockchain

Crypto firms hope putting a blockchain veneer on traditional equities will allow them to sidestep lessons learned in the 1929 Wall Street crash, crypto firms look to become banks, and Congress celebrates crypto surveillance while claiming to outlaw it

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• Molly White

Issue 87 – SO ORDERED

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

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• Molly White

Issue 86 – State power sponsored by Coinbase

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

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• Molly White

It matters. I care.

It matters. I care.

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

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• Molly White

Issue 85 – All the President’s tokens

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

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• Molly White

Trump to launch branded crypto trading application

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

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• Molly White

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

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

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

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• Molly White

Issue 84 – Rogue overseas support agents

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

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• Molly White

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

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

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• Molly White

Meet Trump’s memecoin dinner guests

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

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• Molly White

Issue 82 – E-moluments

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

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• Molly White

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

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

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• Molly White

Issue 81 – Crypto crime is legal

Issue 81 – Crypto crime is legal

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

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• Molly White

Issue 80 – Aimed at benefiting the digital assets industry

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

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• Molly White

Issue 79 – Mundus sine Caesaribus

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

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• Molly White

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

“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

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• Molly White

Crypto reserves: no public good, no principles

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

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• Molly White

Issue 78 – President on brink of bailout for bitcoin

Issue 78 – President on brink of bailout for bitcoin

Trump tries to breathe life back into the crypto markets’ “Trump pump” while federal regulatory agencies wash their hands of any crypto industry oversight

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• Molly White

Issue 77 – Whenever presidents get involved, if they become angry, you don't want to be there

Issue 77 – Whenever presidents get involved, if they become angry, you don't want to be there

A major crypto scandal tarnishes the reputation of Solana bigwigs, crypto influencers, and Argentine President Javier Milei.

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• Molly White

The crypto industry’s debanking smokescreen

The crypto industry’s debanking smokescreen

Cryptocurrency companies have co-opted legitimate concerns about banking discrimination to fight regulation — and Congress is buying it

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• Molly White

Issue 76 – Tripartisan legislation

Issue 76 – Tripartisan legislation

Crypto exchanges face legal troubles, and Trump’s crypto empire grows as regulations are slashed and enforcement is sidelined.

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• Molly White

Trump’s Project 2025 ghostwriters

Trump’s Project 2025 ghostwriters

Exposed PDF metadata from the Office of Personnel Management reveals that Heritage Foundation-linked Trump devotees are writing policies at federal agencies.