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View More NewsSportFi has spent most of its life in a familiar lane: tokens that reward fandom with voting rights, perks and a thin layer of speculative trading. The next version being mapped out by some of the sector’s biggest builders suggests a more ambitious destination — one where sports become a live data feed for smart contracts, and tokens behave less like collectibles and more like programmable markets.The logic is simple: sports already produce constant, globally understood outcomes. Win, lose, qualify, get relegated — the “settlement layer” is the scoreboard. If token supply and incentives can be tied to those outcomes,…
Justice Gorsuch’s concurrence in Learning Resources v. Trump is something of a Godfather-esque settling of family business. He challenges and critiques all of his colleagues (save for the Chief) and brings receipts. As one would expect, his opinion draws tart responses from other justices (which could explain why it took so long for the Court to release the opinion). Whatever one concludes about Justice Gorsuch’s exchange with Justice Kagan, and whether the progressive justices implicitly adopted arguments embracing the major questions doctrine in this case, he is correct that Justices Kagan and Sotomayor have signed on to MQD-reasoning in the past,…
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“I’m your Huckleberry,” murmurs Doc Holliday—pale, sweaty, tubercular, yet somehow still a portrait of virility. “We started a game we never got to finish.” I know how this ends, but I’m still electrified. “Say when.” And when the last pistol shot fades, the silence lands like an elegy. Not just for Johnny Ringo, but also for films like this one. Sign up for Quillette Ten Years of Ideas No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. I’ve been watching movies since my father raised me on The Goonies and Star Wars and What About Bob? I even picked up an undergraduate minor in cinema…
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