this is a very weird headline to run alongside an article that essentially says that an organization that believes in the importance of fair use thinks that fair use should not be interpreted in a way that narrows existing copyright law
In July 2024, I reported that Coinbase appeared to be violating campaign finance law by making contributions while holding federal contracts. I filed an FEC complaint alongside Public Citizen. The FEC hasn’t acted. Since, Coinbase has given $60M more and landed another federal contract.
Coinbase responded to the initial complaint by arguing that, despite having received a federal contract, they were not a federal contractor — then insinuated I had secret funders and made lightly veiled legal threats against me.
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Tether starting to freeze assets
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who is legally not allowed to have any managerial role with the company yet still has remarkable amounts of inside knowledge into its goings on, has tweeted that Tether and Circle have frozen around $1.8B
(he's just a shareholder, you see)
government transparency is going just great
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This is happening to me, but with "tips" about a huge range of crypto-related issues (or perceived issues) people are personally struggling with. The volume is genuinely challenging to deal with.
It takes fairly little effort for a person to tell their AI bot to research and draft an email, but it takes the recipients real time to dig into these tips and separate hallucinations from tips that might actually have some basis. They're basically DDOSing journalists.
someone at Polymarket is drafting a tweet about how their users accurately predicted the Brazilian election result within one point
a sight for sore eyes
truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”
i’ve been writing about crypto for a while now, but this new addition to the $TRUMP memecoin website fine print may be the most blatant “lol you suckers are our exit liquidity” i’ve seen so far
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Nice to see Tesla reclaiming from OceanGate the cutting edge of new and embarrassing ways for the very rich to kill themselves.
