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Of Course Sam Bankman-Fried Wants a Pardon From Trump

One of the worst cryptocurrency scam artists is trying to get a pardon from President Trump.

Sam Bankman-Fried has officially filed with the Justice Department’s Pardon Attorney Office, Bloomberg reports. The co-founder of the cryptocurrency trading site FTX was convicted on fraud and money laundering charges in 2024 and is now serving a 25-year prison sentence.

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Wall Street is not ready for tokenized SpaceX shares

Kraken is preparing to bring tokenized SpaceX shares to crypto traders through its xStocks platform, allowing eligible users in more than 110 countries to trade around the clock. The move could challenge how traditional Wall Street markets operate while raising questions about regulation, ownership rights, and the future of tokenized equities.

Donald Trump Is Stealing Your Money

There are many ways that Donald Trump is currently making your life worse, not to mention generally waging war on the concept of "the future": accelerating the death of the biosphere, doing his best to eliminate the federal government and university as sites of middle-class employment, driving up the price of energy now and food in the immediate future thanks to the idiotic war with Iran he's…

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How the Tech World Turned Evil

I. That Antichrist Nonsense, Explained

Twenty-second-century historians tracing the ascent of American technocracy from quirky garage tinkerers grooving on the Whole Earth Catalog to sinister oligarchs enacting Philip K. Dick prophesies may locate its apogee in four lectures that Peter Thiel (net worth: $29 billion), chairman of the data-mining giant Palantir and a co-founder of PayPal,…

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Will new Apple CEO combat fake crypto apps littering the “walled garden” App Store?

Apple is heading into its biggest leadership transition in years, just as scrutiny is mounting over the security of its App Store and the rise of crypto theft on iPhones. On April 20, the company revealed that John Ternus, its senior vice president of hardware engineering, will succeed Tim Cook as chief executive officer by […]

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Setting up a MastChain AIS Tracking System

AIS (Automatic Identification System) is the VHF protocol on ~162 MHz that ships use to broadcast position, speed, heading and identity, and it's long been a popular decoding target for RTL-SDR owners. Feeder networks like MarineTraffic and AISHub have relied on volunteer receivers for years, but a newer project called MastChain applies the DePIN (Decentralized […]

Crypto apps are shutting down as billions move into Bitcoin ETFs and stablecoins

More than 80 crypto projects formally shuttered or began winding down in the first quarter of this year. RootData’s “dead-project” archive, which tracks closures, bankruptcies, and chronic project inactivity, logged 86 casualties as of March 20. The pullback has spared almost no corner of the ecosystem, sweeping across digital wallets, NFT marketplaces, decentralized finance (DeFi) […]

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The crypto winners from AI may not be AI coins at all as agents start spending autonomously

AI agents are moving beyond chatbot duty and into a bigger role across the internet. As software starts researching, buying, coordinating, and completing tasks with limited supervision, a new question arises: how does a non-human user pay, prove who it is, and operate within clear rules? That question opens an unexpected lane for crypto, especially […]

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Silicon Valley Is Drifting Farther and Farther Right

Silicon Valley’s rising right-wing intelligentsia has plenty of money and a willingness to do the intellectual dirty work of some of the world’s most open reactionaries.


Silicon Valley’s rising right-wing intelligentsia has plenty of money and a willingness to do the intellectual dirty work of some of the world’s most open reactionaries. (Craig T Fruchtman / Getty Images)

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🇫🇷 16 interpellations en France après la séquestration d’un Suisse visé pour une rançon en cryptomonnaies

Séquestré fin août 2025 dans la Drôme, un Suisse de 22 ans a été libéré près de Valence

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X lifts cryptocurrency and gambling bans for paid promotions

X removed cryptocurrency from its list of prohibited industries for paid promotions, reversing a ban in place since June 2024. The policy shift also lifted restrictions on gambling promotions while adding pharmaceuticals, tobacco, weapons, and weight loss products to the prohibited list. Crypto analyst DeFi Ignas observed the change on February 16, noting crypto was […]

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The Paranoid Style of Jeffrey Epstein Has Come for Us All

The scope of Jeffrey Epstein’s reach into the byways of global power has been revealed to be so thorough and dark that it presents a real challenge for even seasoned conspiracy theorists to keep up. Spanning borders both geographic and partisan, his web of intrigue is a seamless garment. Figures on the right and the left all find purchase on it for their arguments. Partisans in all directions…

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Exponentials and Artificial Intelligence

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Human Development
  • The (Fourth?) Industrial Revolution
  • Conclusion

Introduction

The subject of artificial intelligence (AI)1 is one that has become hotly debated in recent years. That the growth of AI’s capabilities has been partly driven by what is becoming increasingly clear financial engineering. These problematic elements has created a…

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CEOs Kiss the Ring at Trump Family Crypto Forum at Mar-a-Lago

President Trump’s sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., on Wednesday kicked off their family’s cryptocurrency venture, World Liberty Financial, with an inaugural forum at their father’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

Eric Trump boasted on X that the forum is “uniting visionaries from Crypto, Wall Street, tech and beyond to shape the future of finance—free from outdated banks, centralized control, and…

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Novig Raises at $500M Valuation With Help of Crypto’s Pivot

About a month ago, cryptocurrency investment firm Pantera Capital published a bold prediction about prediction markets. It said a betting exchange not named Kalshi or Polymarket would be bought for more than $1 billion this year. On Thursday, Pantera announced that it led a $75 million raise for Novig, a sports-focused prediction market betting app […]

Why Is a High-Profile Bitcoin Biopic Planning to Use Generative AI?

There’s a sizable amount of evidence that audiences and critics alike enjoy well-made films set in the tech world. In the last 15 years, movies like The Social Network, BlackBerry and Tetris have all garnered positive reviews alongside high marks from viewers. It isn’t surprising to see that a group of high-profile filmmakers is working […]

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