Freedom IndexMedia & Culture
Media & Culture explores how journalism, entertainment, and creative industries influence—and are influenced by—free speech. From press freedom to artistic expression, this category highlights the cultural impact of censorship and the ongoing struggle for open dialogue.
In brief Bitcoin miner BitMine Immersion last week bought more ETH. The NYSE-listed firm now holds over $10 billion in…
In brief The total crypto market cap today plunged to $2.89 trillion, losing $200 billion in a single day—erasing all…
The city of Chicago must borrow $283.3 million to resolve a growing backlog of police misconduct lawsuits, according to Mayor…
In brief Kalshi lost its preliminary injunction protecting it from Nevada enforcement right before Thanksgiving. The company filed an emergency…
A century ago, two oddly domestic puzzles helped set the rules for what modern science treats as “real”: a Guinness…
In brief Kalshi’s event contracts are now tokenized on Solana. The firm is creating a $2 million grants program for…
In brief Writing in The Economist, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and COO Rob Goldstein call tokenization “the next major evolution…
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In brief Bitcoin trading will be rangebound as 2025 comes to a close, constrained by macro overhang, rebalancing flows among…
Here are the factual allegations, as set forth in last week’s long opinion by Justice Mark Hanasono, joined by Justice…
In brief Anthropic tested ten AI models on 405 historical smart contract exploits and reproduced 207 of them. Three models…
Can you judge the heat of a moral panic by the number of bills purporting to solve it? At the…