Molly White

crypto researcher & critic, software engineer, wikipedian • @web3isgreat creator • newsletter: https://www.citationneeded.news/
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2026-07-27 13:56:32 UTC

My newest Citation Needed project made an appearance on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver! It’s a work in progress, but you can see the new interactive version of my map of the Trump family’s crypto ventures at https://map.citationneeded.news/.
The map contains hundreds of business entities and links to the Trump family (with more being added!), augmented with data from the president’s most recent financial filings to estimate how much money is flowing in. It will be queryable by other researchers/journalists.
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2026-07-20 22:14:05 UTC

alcoholic trying to get sober after a relapse tells Google's "Health Coach" about it.
it tells them to drink every hour and messages them to make sure they're drinking as soon as they wake up.
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2026-06-10 18:05:03 UTC

My work tracking cryptocurrency and AI industry political spending has only underscored the importance of getting big money out of politics. I recently talked to Tiffany Muller, President of End Citizens United, about what it would take to do that, and how we’re closer than you might think.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZAhNJbsPcA
Transcript: https://www.citationneeded.news/end-citizens-uniteds-tiffany-muller-on-fighting-big-money-in-politics/
#cryptocurrency #crypto #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CitizensUnited #USpol #USpolitics

2026-05-25 22:23:16 UTC

my last name has wound up on some campaign database without my first name, so i keep hitting unsubscribe pages that ask "Not white? Please don't use this form"
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2026-05-08 14:39:34 UTC

Newsletter: Crypto billionaire Justin Sun, who escaped fraud allegations after investing hundreds of millions of dollars into the Trump family’s crypto projects, is now accusing the Trumps’ project of fraud.
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-105/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

2026-04-30 13:18:09 UTC

i like to think if anyone ever hacks my Google account they'll get totally derailed trying to decipher my hundreds of spreadsheets that all look something like this
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2026-04-03 19:27:25 UTC

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He’s unfortunately not wrong that casinos and sportsbooks have been among prediction markets’ strongest opponents — largely because consumer protection agencies have been gutted and market integrity regulators turned into advocates.

2026-04-03 19:20:21 UTC

“It’s honestly been eye opening (in a bad way) to see how special interests work in our system” says the Head of Politics at Kalshi, which pays Donald Trump Jr. to sit on its advisory board and has spent over a million in lobbying over the past ~year. The government has just filed a lawsuit to intervene to protect Kalshi from several state regulators.
#Kalshi
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2026-04-02 17:41:14 UTC

One of the government's attorneys in the CFTC's lawsuit against the states who've sued Kalshi was a lawyer for Kalshi in its lawsuit against the CFTC in 2023. He joined the DOJ in February 2025.
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2026-04-02 14:32:46 UTC

misophonia sufferers vindicated as scientists confirm the remaining 3% are also under investigation
https://theonion.com/study-97-of-all-sounds-infuriating/

2026-03-31 17:30:33 UTC

Newsletter: Coinbase is accused of holding the cryptocurrency industry hostage over stablecoin rewards, prediction markets face an onslaught of opposition, and a Stand With Crypto poll can’t even get enthusiasm from its own activists
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-103/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

2026-03-29 18:17:02 UTC

the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has more All-In podcast hosts than professors

2026-03-29 13:10:49 UTC

i love reading crypto reporting
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2026-03-29 11:52:42 UTC

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@nprofile…52nc brilliant in their eyes. "Sam is one of the most brilliant, talented young men of his generation."

2026-03-28 15:30:57 UTC

see you there
#NoKings
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2026-03-27 20:38:04 UTC

Newsletter: As they angle for a presidential pardon in television interviews, Sam Bankman-Fried’s law professor parents file “pro se” motions for their adult son, leave voicemails with the judge, and sign documents claiming they're from him in prison.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #FTX #SBF
https://www.citationneeded.news/sam-bankman-frieds-helicopter-parents/

2026-03-26 13:02:31 UTC

damn, i just knew i was forgetting something!
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2026-03-25 14:32:03 UTC

some Coinbase customers are horrified that the Coinbase app is encouraging them to gamble
they're so close
#PredictionMarkets #Coinbase
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2026-03-25 13:58:21 UTC

i wonder if they make human versions of this dog vest
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2026-03-24 22:03:42 UTC

work-from-couch days are his favorite
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2026-03-24 19:47:08 UTC

i love combing through FEC data because how else would i have learned of Big Nut
#USpolitics #USpol
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2026-03-22 22:29:32 UTC

the great pierogiing
#food
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2026-03-10 15:38:30 UTC

with great sadness i had to retire my trusty Ergodox Infinity, but: new keeb! expect typos as i learn how to type again
(MoErgo Glove80)
#keyboards
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2026-03-09 15:08:25 UTC

Fascinating comment on AI regulation from Elissa Slotkin of all people, who received $10 million — the second-most support — from crypto PACs in 2024.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/opinion/ai-anthropic-claude-pentagon-hegseth-amodei.html
#USpol #USpolitics
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2026-03-02 02:50:46 UTC

just went to start the hem of a top-down sweater i'm knitting
pattern says "switch to US 4 needle"
"what do you mean, switch to"
knit practically the whole damn thing on needles two sizes too small 💀
#knittersofmastodon

2026-02-26 22:04:00 UTC

Newsletter: Bitcoin is down 50%, several prominent industry figures have been uncovered in the Epstein files, Trump’s facing a probe into his family’s $500M deal with the UAE, and crypto super PACs spend their first $6 million in the midterms.
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-101/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

2026-02-20 21:29:38 UTC

Newsletter: With Trump faltering and their policy agenda incomplete, the cryptocurrency industry has moved at least $288 million toward the midterms in a desperate bid to keep Republicans in control of Congress.
https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-super-pacs-2026-midterms/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol #CitationNeededNewsletter

2026-02-20 03:03:20 UTC

Obscure candidate hack: self-fund your campaign with $3.3 million and become the “top fundraiser” in your race, then just cut yourself a check for $1.67 million back
It’s hard to find much about the guy but he describes himself as a former member of the intelligence community, wheat farmer, and restaurant worker who went to Trump University and “built a successful real estate portfolio using the tools provide [sic] by the Trump Organization”. He’s pledged to “get rid of the D.I.R.T.: Drugs, Illegals, Regulations, Taxes”.
#USpol #USpolitics
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2026-02-20 00:45:02 UTC

you know it’s the depths of winter in New England when “mid-March” sounds like a distant, almost mythical time. when my librarian told me that’s when my books would be due back it’s like I caught a glimpse of spring.

2026-01-29 22:28:40 UTC

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The SEC has dismissed with prejudice an enforcement action against the Winklevoss twins’ Gemini crypto exchange. This comes after the Winklevosses contributed $4.4 million to Trump, backed his sons’ ventures, and committed $21 million to elect pro-Trump, pro-crypto lawmakers.
To date, the SEC has paused, dismissed, or otherwise ended crypto lawsuits or investigations against Aave, Binance, Coinbase, ConsenSys, Crypto.com, Cumberland DRW, Dragonchain, Gemini (twice), Hex, Immutable, Kraken, Ondoe, OpenSea, PayPal, Ripple, Robinhood, Tron, Uniswap, Yuga Labs, and Zcash.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2026-01-29 22:27:32 UTC

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The crypto industry’s “educational nonprofit” has also launched an initiative to fund Congressional staff positions after participants go through weeks of “training” on “emerging technologies like crypto, AI, biotech, and defense tech”.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2026-01-29 22:26:47 UTC

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The Fairshake PAC timed a press blitz about the nearly $200 million they’re brandishing towards members of Congress just ahead of a Senate Ag vote on crypto market structure. It passed, and amendments to address Trump’s crypto corruption or prohibit bailouts of crypto firms were shot down.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2026-01-29 22:26:05 UTC

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Amid all this, the crypto industry has amassed at least $315 million to spend in the midterms — more than double their recordbreaking 2024 spending that helped install Trump and members of Congress who either support his atrocities or are too craven to do anything about them.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2026-01-29 22:25:30 UTC

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The answer, of course, is that they never actually cared about these principles at all. In fact, many of these executives have long made it clear that authoritarianism isn’t just collateral damage in their pursuit of business-boosting deregulation, but a desirable outcome.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2026-01-29 22:24:56 UTC

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For years, crypto executives have touted cryptocurrency’s supposed anti-authoritarian and human rights credentials. But where are they when their beloved president claims Alex Pretti’s lawful gun ownership justified his killing, or when ICE leaders tell subordinates to enter homes without warrants?
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2026-01-29 22:23:03 UTC

As ICE terrorizes communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom have gone conspicuously silent. But behind the scenes, they’ve contributed at least $315 million — more than double their record 2024 spending — to elect more lawmakers to enable this administration.
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-100/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

2026-01-21 18:17:25 UTC

House Oversight Democrats have published a Web3 is Going Great-style “Trump Family Digital Grift” counter
https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/trump-family-corruption-tracker
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
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2026-01-09 21:00:57 UTC

spotted on ravelry: the pattern to knit the sock pictured on the Wikipedia article for "sock"
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/as-seen-on-wikipedia-socks
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2026-01-07 18:55:11 UTC

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If you value this kind of independent writing on crypto, tech power, and regulatory capture, please consider supporting my work with a pay-what-you-want subscription: https://www.citationneeded.news/signup/

2026-01-07 02:58:52 UTC

next issue of Citation Needed will be out tomorrow, and thank you to everyone who didn’t unsubscribe when i dropped off the face of the planet into a COVID hole! (the joys of being a solo writer)

2026-01-06 15:56:24 UTC

i love the beginning of the year because everyone starts blogging. and if you (yes you) were thinking about starting, this is your sign

2025-12-21 01:25:40 UTC

planning baking for holiday cookie tins, asking questions like: if i make lemon curd x days in advance, i need to make y extra cups of it to still end up with ½ cup for cookies on the 24th. thank goodness i took multivariable calculus

2025-12-16 21:44:30 UTC

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Trump’s crypto mobile game is apparently launching in December. Spokespeople denied it would be anything like Monopoly Go! — which explains the real estate theme and Monopoly-like game board.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-12-16 21:43:44 UTC

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Alt5 Sigma — the Nasdaq-listed company that became a WLFI treasury company in a deal with the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial in August — is in turmoil. The company was found criminally liable in Rwanda, removed a CEO for undisclosed reasons, and has just lost its replacement CEO.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-12-16 21:42:36 UTC

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A huge list of labor unions and advocacy groups have signed letters to Congress urging them not to support the draft crypto market structure legislation due to the “many systemic failures and harms” of the crypto industry that they believe are going unaddressed in the draft.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-12-16 21:42:03 UTC

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It’s not all good news for Kalshi, though: a federal judge in Nevada has decided their events contracts are not “swaps” under the CFTC and dissolved a preliminary injunction protecting them from civil and criminal action by the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #Kalshi #PredictionMarkets #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-12-16 21:41:06 UTC

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A Kalshi partnership with CNN and CNBC will place Kalshi prices alongside news stories — inviting readers to view these as probabilities and encouraging them to place their own wagers. Kalshi gets the imprimatur of journalistic legitimacy; CNN — fresh off layoffs — gets cash.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #Kalshi #PredictionMarkets #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-12-16 21:40:25 UTC

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Ondo Finance has announced the SEC has ended a multi-year investigation into their activities. This follows Ondo’s $2 million+ in political contributions to President Trump, hiring of former Congressman Patrick McHenry, and partnership with Trump’s World Liberty Financial.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-12-16 21:40:01 UTC

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The OCC has approved the first five national trust bank applications by crypto firms Circle, Ripple, BitGo, Fidelity Digital Assets, and Paxos. This gives them a stronger foothold in traditional finance, confers regulatory legitimacy, and preempts some state financial laws.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-12-16 21:39:30 UTC

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Following hundreds of victim impact statements from people describing how their lives were ruined in the $40 billion Terra implosion in 2022, Do Kwon has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison. He may also serve additional time if sentenced in his home country of South Korea.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-12-16 21:38:26 UTC

Newsletter: Terra’s Do Kwon gets 15 years, crypto banks get the green light, and the Trump family’s crypto grift expands even as one of their treasury companies goes off the rails
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-98/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

2025-12-07 00:54:42 UTC

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@nprofile…scce you're more than welcome to use the name as far as I'm concerned!

2025-11-25 16:27:17 UTC

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This is a scary trend. If crypto prices don’t rebound, DATCOs could be forced to sell their crypto, dragging the market down even further. Galaxy Digital researchers have compared the model, and its potential unwind, to the 1920s investment trust boom and bust.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-11-25 16:26:50 UTC

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With two months of sinking crypto prices, DATCOs are faltering. Some have even begun to sell their crypto to try to rescue plunging stock prices.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-11-25 16:24:24 UTC

Newsletter: Crypto’s latest “infinite money machine” is the digital asset treasury company — a publicly traded firm that exists primarily to accumulate crypto. For a while, these stocks traded at hefty premiums to the underlying assets. But now, the trade is unraveling.
https://www.citationneeded.news/digital-asset-treasury-companies/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #CitationNeededNewsletter

2025-11-10 16:12:26 UTC

i guess Black Friday is just November now

2025-10-29 16:03:26 UTC

how many cumulative hours will i spend infuriated at the loose connection on my keyboard before i finally spend the ten minutes to resolder it? stay tuned

2025-10-28 16:33:45 UTC

fixed that for you
#Wikipedia
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2025-10-20 14:36:57 UTC

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I'm at the point where if something I'm reading contains this structure, closing the tab is basically an involuntary reflex

2025-10-19 16:33:02 UTC

flower child
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2025-10-18 20:41:30 UTC

happy dogs that look proud to be wearing their protest signs >>>
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2025-10-08 20:53:48 UTC

Newsletter: Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-94/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

2025-10-02 19:00:56 UTC

New research from AWU/CWU/Techquity on AI data workers in North America. “[L]ow paid people who are not even treated as humans [are] out there making the 1 billion dollar, trillion dollar AI systems that are supposed to lead our entire society and civilization into the future,” says one.
https://cwa-union.org/ghost-workers-ai-machine
#AI #labor
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2025-10-01 19:24:39 UTC

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross
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2025-09-30 18:05:27 UTC

can't wait to read Elon's new bio on Grokipedia
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2025-09-10 15:04:38 UTC

Something I wish journalists understood better: anyone can nominate an article for deletion on Wikipedia, which kicks off a week-long discussion — even if the article is perfectly acceptable and will ultimately be kept. This does not mean "Wikipedia is trying to delete X!!"
#Wikipedia

2025-09-04 19:22:37 UTC

The Trumps' World Liberty Financial project has frozen WLFI tokens in wallet addresses belonging to Justin Sun that contain ~$100 million (on paper) in unlocked WLFI. Sun is a major backer of the project, which the Trumps say they founded to stop "debanking".
The freeze apparently came after Sun transferred around ~$9M of his holdings to Binance.
The World Liberty team has been desperately trying to prevent the WLFI price from sinking, including by burning tokens to boost the price. They may be concerned that whales like Sun could further depress the token price by cashing out.
#crypto #JustinSun

2025-09-04 16:21:02 UTC

this is the company in charge of custody for crypto assets held by the US government 🙂
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2025-08-23 19:12:29 UTC

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i would like to go back to being anxious about irrational, or at least highly improbable, things
#anxiety

2025-08-23 19:11:49 UTC

it feels deeply weird to be Going Through It with my lifelong anxiety disorder as an american in 2025
like yeah i'm grappling with crushing feelings of impending doom but who isn't?
#anxiety

2025-08-19 20:34:05 UTC

Newsletter: As he builds US power, Justin Sun fights to control his story
A crypto billionaire who once feared arrest in the US is now a Trump business adviser and White House guest. His lawsuit against Bloomberg reveals what he doesn't want Americans to know about his crypto fortune.
https://www.citationneeded.news/justin-sun-bloomberg-lawsuit/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #JustinSun

2025-08-13 23:49:37 UTC

Justin Sun has just filed a lawsuit against Bloomberg, claiming they plan to “recklessly and improperly disclos[e] his highly confidential, sensitive, private, and proprietary financial information,” which they obtained while they were verifying his assets for inclusion in the Bloomberg “Billionaires Index”.
Sun claims this will cause him “ significant and irreparable harm—both financially and physically.” He says they plan to use the information in an article unrelated to the Billionaires Index. He also claims they plan to publish “granular details about his cryptocurrency assets, including a breakdown of his cryptocurrency holdings,” in the Billionaires Index, and that he wouldn’t have agreed to share the information had he known.
Sun sent a cease and desist to Bloomberg, and was informed they still intend to publish. He now seeks an injunction against the company.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71089620/1/sun-v-bloomberg-lp/
#crypto #JustinSun
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2025-08-13 21:17:00 UTC

oops, i said “fuck” in the newsletter again
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2025-08-13 20:47:28 UTC

Newsletter: The Trump administration cracks down on software to limit surveillance of crypto transactions, while celebrating a “deregulatory blitz” tailored for its billionaire benefactors
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-90/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

2025-08-13 00:18:52 UTC

https://www.ft.com/content/8a160bd3-c96d-468a-8052-b0aae43e5aea
#crypto #cryptocurrency
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2025-08-11 22:11:35 UTC

August 7: Stablecoin issuer Paxos reaches $48 million settlement with New York financial regulators over due diligence, anti-money laundering failures
August 11: Paxos applies for national trust bank charter
🙃

2025-08-05 17:29:33 UTC

I've updated my past newsletter platform cost comparison to incorporate Ghost's recent pricing changes for Ghost Pro. (Note that past Ghost users are grandfathered in.)
#Ghost
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2025-08-04 16:08:54 UTC

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took me about 45 minutes to upgrade from ghost 5.126.0 -> ghost 6.0.0 with a dist-upgrade thrown in for good measure. ezpz
haven't migrated to docker yet, though i probably will soon. i don't want the analytics, but it looks like i'll want it for self-hosting activitypub

2025-08-04 15:31:15 UTC

my god, just look at that changelog. looks like it's upgrade day for me!
https://ghost.org/changelog/6/
#Ghost

2025-08-03 23:05:51 UTC

https://www.theblock.co/post/365343/lugano-authorities-recover-satoshi-nakamoto-statue-that-was-thrown-in-lake
#crypto #cryptocurrency
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2025-08-03 14:17:05 UTC

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The article only mentions Crypto.com's $10 million contribution to Trump's super PAC, but doesn't mention that after Trump took office, the SEC dropped their lawsuit against the company. His Truth Social company is now partnering with them to sell crypto ETFs.

2025-08-03 14:09:25 UTC

The scale of Trump's pay-for-access scheme outlined by the Times is mindblowing. Crypto contributions resulting in business deals with the Trump family crypto businesses, oil companies buying influence and later reaping benefits from friendly policies, and a $1 million pardon.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/us/politics/donor-list-suggests-scale-of-trumps-pay-for-access-operation.html
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
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2025-07-31 16:34:14 UTC

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use #RSS.
https://www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-rss/

2025-07-30 19:45:11 UTC

i love reading changelogs
#RimWorld
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2025-07-30 17:05:49 UTC

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@nprofile…2ulp not dumb at all — i don’t like my emails spying on me, and don’t want the ones i send to spy on you, either

2025-07-29 14:22:39 UTC

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We should live in a world where selling out to corporate money or being completely spineless and ineffective in office is what threatens re-election.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
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2025-07-29 14:18:53 UTC

There is really no comparison in American history to the blatant corruption.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/opinion/trump-crypto-genius-act-memcoin.html
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
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2025-07-28 15:29:30 UTC

nineteen years as a wikipedian 🎂
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2025-07-25 15:53:55 UTC

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@nprofile…qa96 i saw you got a mention in Matt Levine's newsletter :)

2025-07-24 16:34:06 UTC

Sundog, a memecoin by crypto billionaire Justin Sun, just posted a meme depicting its mascot controlling the White House. Sun has spent (or will shortly spend) a total of $213 million on Trump-connected crypto projects.
h/t @nprofile…6r7m
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
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2025-07-23 20:15:51 UTC

Newsletter: Crypto bills have passed the House with “2, 3, 4 o’clock” phone calls from Trump to give “a little love” to Republican holdouts, $6.9 million in crypto lobbying, and a $141 million midterm threat. The bills feature few consumer protections and destabilizing loopholes.
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-89/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

2025-07-22 18:23:46 UTC

Trump speaking to crypto executives while signing the GENIUS Act stablecoin bill: “I got you guys out of so much trouble... They’ve got plenty of cash, and it’s great that you’re on our side.”
(Note: I retained Trump’s comments about Biden to avoid taking his statement out of context, but his claim that Biden “dropped all charges” against crypto executives during his or Harris’s campaign is false.)
#USpol #USpolitics #crypto #cryptocurrency
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2025-07-17 21:50:30 UTC

FT: "Donald Trump is preparing to open the $9tn US retirement market to cryptocurrency investments ..."
Trump is seeking to direct Americans' retirement funds to a sector in which he and his family are heavily invested.
https://www.ft.com/content/07906211-5ab8-4917-bcad-5397c0bc3170
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

2025-07-15 14:24:51 UTC

It's no coincidence that the Fairshake crypto super PAC has timed its press release announcing they have $140 million ready for the midterms as Congress is considering three crypto bills during "Crypto Week". Pass our bills, or we will spend millions against you in the midterms.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

2025-07-11 19:13:17 UTC

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During “Crypto Week”, Congress will also be considering an Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act. While Republicans decry purely hypothetical CBDC surveillance, they celebrated crypto’s actual surveillance capabilities at the recent Senate hearing.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
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2025-07-11 19:12:23 UTC

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Two Republicans took time at the hearing to attack legislators and witnesses for so much as mentioning the influence of the crypto lobby, or Trump’s personal crypto ventures. They don’t want people even mentioning crypto's hundreds of millions of dollars in spending on Congress.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
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2025-07-11 19:11:10 UTC

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Experts are issuing dire warnings on bills that would allow for activity like this. Professor Richard Painter implored: “We do not want another economic collapse caused by deregulation of financial services sector. ... Please, we don't want to go through those experiences again.”
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
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2025-07-11 19:09:21 UTC

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By encasing stocks in a blockchainy wrapper, companies like Robinhood are hoping to tap into lucrative equities markets while sidestepping the expensive compliance and oversight requirements of traditional American brokerages and exchanges.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
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2025-07-11 19:07:44 UTC

Newsletter: Crypto firms hope putting a blockchain veneer on traditional equities will allow them to sidestep lessons learned in the 1929 Wall Street crash, crypto firms look to become banks, and Congress celebrates crypto surveillance while claiming to outlaw it
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-88/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

2025-07-10 15:47:43 UTC

A couple of years ago I wrote a tweet thread about how I'd begun to see people in the crypto and finreg spaces expressing excitement about the traceability of cryptocurrencies.
Thinking back to it as I watch Senators and crypto industry executives talk about how delightfully traceable public blockchains are. No pesky warrant required!
#surveillance #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
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