Molly White

crypto researcher & critic, software engineer, wikipedian • @web3isgreat creator • newsletter: https://www.citationneeded.news/
she/her • :QueerCat_Bisexual:

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2026-05-08 16:39:34 CEST

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 15:18:09 CEST

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 21:27:25 CEST

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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 21:20:21 CEST

“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 16:32:46 CEST

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 19:30:33 CEST

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 20:17:02 CEST

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

2026-03-29 15:10:49 CEST

i love reading crypto reporting
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2026-03-29 13:52:42 CEST

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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 16:30:57 CET

see you there
#NoKings
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2026-03-27 21:38:04 CET

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 14:02:31 CET

damn, i just knew i was forgetting something!
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2026-03-25 15:32:03 CET

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 14:58:21 CET

i wonder if they make human versions of this dog vest
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2026-03-24 23:03:42 CET

work-from-couch days are his favorite
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2026-03-24 20:47:08 CET

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 23:29:32 CET

the great pierogiing
#food
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2026-03-10 16:38:30 CET

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 16:08:25 CET

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 03:50:46 CET

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 23:04:00 CET

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 22:29:38 CET

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 04:03:20 CET

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 01:45:02 CET

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 23:28:40 CET

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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 23:27:32 CET

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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 23:26:47 CET

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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 23:26:05 CET

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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 23:25:30 CET

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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 23:24:56 CET

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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 23:23:03 CET

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 19:17:25 CET

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 22:00:57 CET

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 19:55:11 CET

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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 03:58:52 CET

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)

2025-11-25 17:27:17 CET

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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 17:26:50 CET

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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 17:24:24 CET

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

2025-10-29 17:03:26 CET

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 17:33:45 CET

fixed that for you
#Wikipedia
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2025-10-19 18:33:02 CEST

flower child
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2025-10-08 22:54:39 CEST

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Last issue, I wrote about how the Emirati firm that handed Trump and his family nine-figure crypto profits scored a huge win with an AI chip deal. Now they’re getting 15% of TikTok, too.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
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2025-10-08 22:53:48 CEST

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 21:00:56 CEST

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 21:24:39 CEST

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross
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2025-09-30 20:05:27 CEST

can't wait to read Elon's new bio on Grokipedia
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2025-09-04 21:22:37 CEST

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 18:21:02 CEST

this is the company in charge of custody for crypto assets held by the US government 🙂
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2025-08-23 21:12:29 CEST

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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 21:11:49 CEST

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 22:34:05 CEST

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

2025-08-14 01:49:37 CEST

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 23:17:00 CEST

oops, i said “fuck” in the newsletter again
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2025-08-13 22:47:28 CEST

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 02:18:52 CEST

https://www.ft.com/content/8a160bd3-c96d-468a-8052-b0aae43e5aea
#crypto #cryptocurrency
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2025-08-12 00:11:35 CEST

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 19:29:33 CEST

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 18:08:54 CEST

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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 17:31:15 CEST

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

2025-08-03 16:17:05 CEST

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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 16:09:25 CEST

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 18:34:14 CEST

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 21:45:11 CEST

i love reading changelogs
#RimWorld
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2025-07-29 16:22:39 CEST

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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 16:18:53 CEST

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 17:29:30 CEST

nineteen years as a wikipedian 🎂
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2025-07-25 17:53:55 CEST

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

2025-07-24 18:34:06 CEST

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 22:15:51 CEST

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 20:23:46 CEST

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 23:50:30 CEST

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 16:24:51 CEST

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.
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2025-07-11 21:13:17 CEST

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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.
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2025-07-11 21:12:23 CEST

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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.
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2025-07-11 21:11:10 CEST

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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.”
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2025-07-11 21:09:21 CEST

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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.
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2025-07-11 21:07:44 CEST

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/
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2025-07-10 17:47:43 CEST

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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2025-07-09 23:09:21 CEST

I'm running a quick (3–5 minutes) reader feedback survey for my newsletter, Citation Needed. If you're a reader, I'd love to get your feedback!
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2025-07-06 23:52:38 CEST

"It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you’re attempting can’t be done." – Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
#bookstodon

2025-07-05 16:42:40 CEST

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It could also be enormously lucrative for early buyers like Justin Sun or the Emirati Aqua 1 Foundation, who hold $75 million and $100 million worth of WLFI, respectively.
Prior to the Trump administration, a token like this would likely have been considered an unregistered security by the SEC, and its sales illegal offerings.
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2025-07-05 16:42:40 CEST

The team behind Trump's World Liberty Financial project has proposed lifting restrictions on the WLFI "governance token" to make it tradeable. I predicted shortly after its launch that if Trump succeeded in gutting the SEC, he would do this.
This would lift the substantial restrictions on the token (non-US or accredited investors only, locked tokens with no secondary sales) that were aimed at sidestepping attention from the previous SEC, and could be enormously lucrative for Trump.
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2025-07-03 04:44:09 CEST

NYC, 1919: Perched on a towering pile of donated books, a librarian calls from a megaphone to request more book donations for American troops stationed in France. The American Library Association’s campaign sent up to 55,000 books each month to military camp libraries.
via Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.40926/
#archivespelunking #books #bookstodon
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2025-07-01 21:10:43 CEST

Newsletter: Trump’s crypto empire attracts more foreign millions, the FHFA pushes crypto on mortgage lenders, and Mamdani’s mayoral primary win makes billionaires sweat.
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-87/
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2025-06-19 21:00:34 CEST

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All that, plus an angry letter from the Winklevoss twins’ Gemini crypto exchange to the CFTC, a dropped lawsuit from Justin Sun’s BitGlobal against Coinbase, and more in this week’s issue of Citation Needed.
I keep the Trump family web of crypto involvement up-to-date at: https://mollywhite.net/etc/trump-family-crypto-projects/
The quid pro quo list is at: https://www.followthecrypto.org/quidproquo
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2025-06-19 21:00:10 CEST

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Sun is not the only crypto businessman lavishing money on Trump after favorable regulatory outcomes. Don Wilson has just invested $100 million into Trump-owned TMTG (Truth Social parent company) after the SEC dropped a lawsuit against his crypto trading firm Cumberland DRW.
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2025-06-19 20:59:27 CEST

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Shady crypto billionaire Justin Sun is strengthening his ties to the Trump family, now taking his Tron company public in the US via a reverse merger facilitated by Dominari Securities, a small investment bank with Eric and Donald Trump Jr. on its board.
Sun previously faced an SEC lawsuit alleging fraud against him and his companies, and was once so afraid of a reported ongoing criminal probe that he forfeited his $28 million seat on Jeff Bezos’ rocket out of fear he would be arrested if he stepped foot in the US.
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2025-06-19 20:58:03 CEST

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The Senate passed the GENIUS Act stablecoin legislation, thanks to votes from nearly all Republicans and 18 Democrats. The bill has been criticized for further enabling Trump’s corruption, and insufficient safeguards for consumer protection and financial stability.
The House has been working on a separate stablecoin bill, so it’s unclear if they will continue to push that or take up the GENIUS Act. Trump has directly called for the House to pass GENIUS: “Get it to my desk, ASAP — NO DELAYS, NO ADD ONS.”
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2025-06-19 20:56:11 CEST

Newsletter: Issue 86 – State power sponsored by Coinbase
Coinbase’s sponsorship of Trump’s military parade angered some in the crypto world, who described the move as “deeply disturbing” and “an insult to everything our industry stands for”. But this is only the latest example of crypto companies aligning with state power.
Earlier this month, the cryptocurrency firm Ripple made a $9.4 million contribution to the San Francisco Police Department to fund a surveillance center outfitted with drones. “We’re going to be covering the entire city with drones,” enthused a SFPD Captain about the donation.
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-86/
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2025-06-18 02:23:27 CEST

Big Tech: we invented the torment nexus
Glasses brands: for $54.95, you can slightly reduce the torment
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2025-06-18 01:03:54 CEST

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Here's the breakdown of the 68-30 vote. Same 16 Democrats who voted yea in the previous cloture vote except for Blunt Rochester (DE), and new yea votes from Hickenlooper (CO), Kim (NJ), and Warnock (GA).
All Republicans supported, sans Hawley (MO) and Paul (KY).
Full list of Democrats who supported were Alsobrooks (MD), Booker (NJ), Cortez Masto (NV), Fetterman (PA), Gallego (AZ), Gillibrand (NY), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Hickenlooper (CO), Kim (NJ), Lujan (NM), Ossoff (GA), Padilla (CA), Rosen (NV), Schiff (CA), Slotkin (MI), Warner (VA), and Warnock (GA).
Independents King and Sanders both opposed.
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00318.htm
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2025-06-17 23:48:43 CEST

GENIUS Act (stablecoin bill) has passed the Senate.
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2025-06-16 20:40:00 CEST

Just updated my diagram of Trump’s crypto entanglements based on his most recent financial disclosures 😵‍💫
Full-size image: https://storage.mollywhite.net/trump-family-crypto-projects.png
Disclosures: https://oge.app.box.com/s/k0hxcezgk7j1cyqoue16cillsi9srmfu
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2025-06-15 04:50:35 CEST

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This is not to endorse the Dems’ strategy right now, and the number should be way closer to 100%!
But I do want to make you think twice when you see headlines like that one.
#USpolitics #USpol #journalism

2025-06-15 04:32:14 CEST

A couple people responded to my earlier post about the shoddy WSJ article to say “well it’s true that Democrats aren’t supporting the protests!”
At my best count, 75 elected Democrats (Congresspeople, governors) attended protests today. Another 27 encouraged people to go.
That’s just looking at today’s protests, not Democrats talking about or attending protests more generally. It also doesn’t count the many more state or local officials who showed up, candidates, etc.
#USpolitics #USpol
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2025-06-14 19:22:30 CEST

going to the library book sale “just to look” went about how you would expect
#bookstodon
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2025-06-12 17:46:22 CEST

#dogsofmastodon
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2025-06-11 22:09:34 CEST

When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.
https://www.citationneeded.news/it-matters-i-care/

2025-06-04 21:51:54 CEST

I think this is a more or less up-to-date map of the businesses, LLCs, and people associated with the Trump family crypto projects.
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2025-06-03 20:41:51 CEST

Absolute chaos. After my scoop about the upcoming launch of a Trump Wallet by Magic Eden, in cooperation with the $TRUMP memecoin team, Magic Eden pushed out their announcement. Both Eric and Don Jr then repudiated the project, stating they had no prior knowledge.
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