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View More Newsfrom the ctrl-alt-speech dept Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodes with additional coverage, support us on Patreon. In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by Niklas Eder, co-founder and co-CEO of User Rights, a designated out of court dispute settlement body under the Digital Services…
Tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) account for just $12.66 million in active market capitalization despite the recent spike in trading activity.Much of that larger activity, instead, came from memecoin traders piling into a new token, CASHCAT, named after Robinhood’s former company mascot. The token rallied by more than 2,100% in its first week, briefly reaching a $156 million market cap, which is 12 times larger than the chain’s entire tokenized real-world asset market.It’s worth noting, though, that memecoins are volatile and hype-driven by nature, often lacking durable growth. That lack of sustainability was evident on Wednesday, when Noxa, the token launcher…
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The rise and fall of Graham Platner, who has just withdrawn from the U.S. Senate race in Maine in which he was challenging Republican incumbent Susan Collins, makes one think of a fairy tale or myth in which a character of humble status is suddenly elevated to wealth and high status by some magical entity but is led astray by character flaws such as greed or hubris and is just as precipitously hurled back into lowly obscurity. In Graham’s case, the magical entities were progressive political operatives Dan Moraff, Leanne Fan and Moritz Katz, who thought they had found the…
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In brief Bitcoin is trading near $63,000, down around 2% on the day and roughly 47% below its October record, as investors retreat from…
The crypto market fell Friday, with bitcoin BTC$63,097.25 recovering from a drop below $63,000 to trade down 1.2% since midnight UTC and ether (ETH)…
European authorities added 14 crypto companies to the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework register in the second post-deadline update, signaling a slower licensing pace…
In brief Citadel Securities, the market-making giant founded by billionaire Ken Griffin, has invested $400 million in Crypto.com, valuing the exchange at $20 billion.…
Sui Network is back online after a nearly six-hour outage on Thursday, which it attributed to a bug introduced by an update, marking the…
OKX Ventures, the investment arm of crypto exchange OKX, will invest KRW 80 billion ($53 million) for a 19.6% stake in South Korean cryptocurrency…
Blockchain infrastructure platform and stablecoin issuer Paxos says it has become the first “blockchain-native” firm that the US Securities and Exchange Commission has granted…
The legal advocacy group Neutral Principles engaged Erik Jaffe and me to draft an amicus brief for them in Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc. v.…
XRP finally found buyers near the bottom of its range after spending much of May grinding lower, but the rebound hasn’t changed the broader…
An increasing number of Bitcoin holders are seeing their investments turn red as the holding structure continues to deteriorate across major cohorts, according to…
I find the term “judicial activism” to largely be meaningless. There is often no discernible line between “making law” and “applying the law.” But…
We were promised world records, freakish performances, a new era of sport that would redefine human potential. Instead, we got an Enhanced Games that…