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September 24, 2024 Issue 67 – Bug out bitcoin
Crypto resurfaces on the campaign trail and the FTX fallout continues to unfold. Also, merch! Originally published on September 23, 2024.
28 min
September 17, 2024 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. Originally published on September 17, 2024.
26 min
September 12, 2024 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. Originally published on September 12, 2024.
26 min
September 06, 2024 Issue 65 – World Liberty Fiasco
Even the most pro-Trump crypto faithful think Trump’s new crypto scheme is a terrible idea. Also, an FTX crypto executive earns some benefit of the doubt, a lawsuit accuses “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli of disrespecting the Wu-Tang Clan, and there's a hamburglary.

Originally published on September 6, 2024.
37 min
August 30, 2024 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? Originally published on August 30, 2024.
45 min
August 17, 2024 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”.

Originally published on August 17, 2024.
26 min
August 07, 2024Sexism in Bitcoin: an interview with Lyn Alden
I'm joined by investment strategist and bitcoiner Lyn Alden to continue an earlier conversation about sexism in the bitcoin world.

Links we discuss in this interview:
DL News article on the gender breakdown of speakers at Bitcoin 2024
Association for Women in Cryptocurrency (AWIC) "State of Inclusion" survey
Pantera survey on gender and pay in the industry
"Understanding Bitcoin Adoption in the United States: Politics, Demographics, & Sentiment" by Andrew Perkins and Troy Cross
Peter McCormack's podcast, What Bitcoin Did
Letter to the DNC by Democratic Congresspeople and candidates
A Progressive's Case for Bitcoin
Progressive Bitcoiner podcast
49 min
August 07, 2024 Issue 63 – RobConf 2024
Coinbase responds to campaign finance violation allegations, Trump panders to bitcoiners, and I talk about my chat with Lyn Alden about sexism in bitcoin.

Originally published on August 7, 2024.
37 min
July 30, 2024 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 crypto super PAC in May 2024.

Originally published on July 30, 2024, and updated on August 5.
17 min
July 29, 2024 When did cryptocurrency policy become a voter issue?
I don’t believe that it has. In addition to all the spending, the cryptocurrency industry has been working overtime to sell a story: that there is a large contingent of voters who will be strongly factoring in candidates’ crypto policy stances when they vote in the upcoming elections. The problem is, it’s a story that does not seem to be well supported by data.

Originally published on July 29, 2024.
12 min