Molly White

Newsletter: Firms close up shop amid a continued crypto winter, a Trump venture ditches its crypto plans, and the crypto industry–friendly Clarity Act market structure bill fails to reach a vote before August recess — likely dooming it. www.citationneeded.news/issue-108/

this joke broke containment and now i have a bunch of right-wingers gleefully informing me they've already called my boss and celebrating my firing weirdly enough i haven’t gotten a single phone call!

> the shooter is trans > ok the bullets were trans > ok the roommate is trans

this reminds me of the time i got an email about my “vocal fry” in a guest lecture

i know when i sneakily steal someone's book to create an unauthorized and uncredited adaptation i always make sure to write "It is not possible for me to overstate how important Rachel Hope Cleves’ book on the subject was" and point readers "towards our Holy Mother of knowledge Rachel Hope Cleves"

Spotted in Coinbase’s most recent 10-Q: Coinbase has stopped using trading volume as a key metric, which is I’m sure completely unrelated to the 38%/48% decrease in spot trading volume they reported over the past three/six months

well that sucks. apparently the ALA/Freedom To Read Foundation have trademarks on the phrase "free people read freely", which i use in a lino print i made into stickers a few years ago.

It's a year and a half after i highlighted the issue, but nice to see: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

when you send me vaguely lawyerly-sounding emails in hopes of threatening me to take down my reporting, and demand i "preserve all potentially relevant records, including ... search-engine submissions"

thank goodness they included the reading order so i don't get them mixed up

enjoying imagining the discussion among editors in which they determined if this ought to be pluralized as Spider-Mans, Spider-Men, or Spiders-Man

This article is a great deep dive into some of the shady characters behind World Liberty Financial — Justin Sun among them, despite his recent efforts to distance himself from the project. (He likely hoped this interview would help, and it is a little friendly, but rightly points out his shadiness.)

Click any node or connection in the Trump crypto empire map to open its panel and view explanatory annotations and citations. Toggle the income overlay to see financial-disclosure figures from the most recent filings. Search for entities, or filter by category. map.citationneeded.news

My newest Citation Needed project made an appearance on @lastweektonight.com! 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 map.citationneeded.news.