Jacob Silverman: Javier Milei’s Crypto Scandal Is Part of a Larger Network of Grift and Graft
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/javier-mileis-crypto-scandal-is-part-of-a-larger-network-of-grift-and-graft/
See also: https://cointelegraph.com/news/timeline-five-world-leaders-memecoin-scandal-trump & https://www.lazarusbounty.com
“Cryptocurrency cannot be seized and is highly liquid. The logic of violence has completely changed. Now wealth is global, and we are going to see massive inequality everywhere. You can’t fix the world. This is an opportunity to create the future. Be the change you wish to see.” Amir Taaki
Centralized Crypto Exchange Remain in Danger After 1.4 billion USD Theft
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bybit-hack-centralized-exchange-security-flaws
Bitcoin in post-Trump Election ‘Massacre’ Momentum
https://www.zerohedge.com/precious-metals/futures-drop-momentum-massacre-crushes-bitcoin
MemeCoins Are Never Coming Back
https://console.pluid.com/article/memecoins-are-never-coming-back-edo9d2jw02
“Imagine a Las Vegas casino telling its gamblers to believe in something after they lose everything.” scooter
“This is a direct transfer of wealth from the U.S. treasury to David Sacks and other crypto barons. The railroad and coal tycoons of the 19th century could never have dreamed of this level of heist.”
Jacob Silverman: Trump’s ‘Crypto Reserve’ Is Such Brazen Corruption
https://zeteo.com/p/trumps-crypto-reserve-is-such-brazen
Molly White: President on Brink of Bailout for Bitcoin
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-78/
Coming of Age in Corporate Capitalism (Brett Scott video)
https://www.asomo.co/p/coming-of-age-in-corporate-capitalism
NFT market in the Trump II period
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/10/donald-trump-return-nft-market-cryptocurrencies-resurgence
Jacob Silverman on Trump’s Crypto Scams
https://airmail.news/issues/2025-2-1/the-view-from-here
El Salvador Abandons Bitcoin After Failed Experiment
https://ticotimes.net/2025/02/02/el-salvador-abandons-bitcoin-as-legal-tender-after-failed-experiment
Will Crypto Save the Dollar?
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/could-cryptocurrencies-help-trump-reconcile-trade-protectionism-and-dollar-dominance-by-lucrezia-reichlin-2025-01
Is It Still a Good Idea to Invest in Bitcoin?
https://hackernoon.com/is-it-still-a-good-idea-to-invest-in-bitcoin
MIT Press: Blockchain Governance book
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549059/blockchain-governance/
Memecraft: Narrative Dynamics, Discursive Control and Capital in Crypto Culture
https://theblockchainsocialist.com/memecraft-narrative-dynamics-discursive-control-and-capital-in-crypto-culture/
Sarah Friend on the Death of Protocols
ttps://summerofprotocols.com/good-death-web
MIT Press: Finance Aesthetics, a Critical Glossery
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781915983190/finance-aesthetics/
TRUMP memecoin investors lose $2 billion
https://cointelegraph.com/news/memecoins-not-under-sec-hester-peirce-2-billion-trump-loss
Milei to be Impeached over Involvement in Crypto Rug Pull
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/argentina-s-president-javier-milei-to-be-impeached-for-crypto-rug-pull/ar-AA1z8l5T
A Libertarian Island Dream in Honduras Is Now an $11 Billion Nightmare by Umar Farooq and Michael D McDonald
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-02-13/a-honduras-dream-city-now-faces-11-billion-political-dispute
The Women in Bitcoin That Cointelegraph Forgot
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/takes/the-women-in-bitcoin-that-cointelegraph-forgot
Introducing the SciHub Token
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/sci-hub
Bitcoin Jesus Roger Ver Cannot Pay US Taxes
https://cointelegraph.com/news/roger-ver-us-tax-evasion-doj-extradition-crypto-charges
Russian Bank in Malta Catering for Global Crime
https://timesofmalta.com/article/russian-man-maltese-citizen-ran-bank-criminals-across-world.1102187
Anonymous Engineering
https://dark.fi/insights/anonymous-engineering.html
Rachel-Rose O’Leiry on Dark.Fi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av2KLxXZz34
Brian and Paris featuring Molly White as their guest
https://disconnect.blog/roundup-the-system-is-crashing/
Report on how the Bitcoin core development is funded
https://mit.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c7dad19ab5f7c70ee4fa666c&id=956e1d9012&e=850576c8eb
Predictables about Celebrity-driven Memecoin Supercycles
https://cointelegraph.com/news/fame-failure-celebrity-crypto-scams
Historical study on German emergency money during WWI (Notgeld)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546805/emergency-money/
Sepp Eckenhaussen interviews Inte Gloerich on her PhD about DAOs after the hype
https://networkcultures.org/ourcreativereset/2024/12/20/art-in-permacrisis-6-inte-gloerich-and-decentralised-autonomous-organisations/
What Hailey Welch Said About Meme Coin Fiasco
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/hailey-welch-said-meme-coin-190523919.html
Oreshnicoin: The Coin for World Peace
https://oreshnicoin.com/
Community Currencies in Brazil – Camila Rioja (Plexos Institute)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyGlPWfmDjA
Linguistic Justice: Interpol Asks to No Longer call Scam ‘Pig Buchering’
https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/17/interpol_stop_saying_pig_butchering/
Will You Be Part of It?
https://x.com/maddox00000/status/1864081373226479950
Trump Coin Valuation (Molly White, Jan. 20, 2025)
https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-memecoin-valuation/
Libertarian Movement and Trump Free ‘Silk Road’ Ross Ulbricht
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-frees-silk-road-creator-ross-ulbricht-after-11-years-in-prison/
Memecoins and US Debt
https://cointelegraph.com/news/mark-cuban-memecoin-us-national-debt
Quite a Character: ‘AIcoin’ John McAfee
https://cointelegraph.com/news/john-mc-afee-ai-token-crypto-story
Molly White on Privacy, Human Rights and Tornado Cash
https://www.citationneeded.news/tornado-cash/
Upcoming Musk & Crypto vs. Federal Reserve Bank War
https://cointelegraph.com/news/elon-musk-reposts-call-end-federal-reserve-bank
Related: Trump floats paying off $35T national debt using Bitcoin
https://cointelegraph.com/news/trump-floats-paying-off-35-trillion-national-debt-bitcoin
Market forces Dogecoin to follow the upward trend
https://watcher.guru/news/dogecoin-price-prediction-can-doge-reach-1-this-month
Konkin’s Agorism Discussed at DevCon 2024
https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/black-market-activism-agorism-samuel-edward-konkin-iii
Fox News Contributor Caitlyn Jenner Sued for Securities Fraud with Memecoins
https://www.404media.co/caitlyn-jenner-is-being-sued-for-memecoin-securities-fraud/
Helix Bitcoin Launderette Owner Jailed for Three Years, Hands Over $400M
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/16/helix_bitcoin_mixer/
US hacker Sentenced to Five Years Prison over Bitcoin Heist Worth Billions
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2dl70wed1lo
Build Network Societies, not Network States
https://www.combinationsmag.com/build-network-societies-not-network-states/
The Collective Intelligence Project: Solving the Transformative Technology Trilemma through Governance R&D
https://www.cip.org/whitepaper
The Network State and the Second Bourgeois Revolution by Joel Z. Garrod
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949694224000233
Suriname the next Bitcoin Nation?
https://cointelegraph.com/news/suriname-bitcoin-crypto-parbhoe-corruption
Just out: The Art of Automating Tax Evasion by rybn.org
https://www.setmargins.press/books/the-great-offshore/
Pump.fun’s most hilarious videos
https://youtu.be/J07Z3yeHThw
Related: Pump.fun fraudulant tokens on Pump.Science
https://cointelegraph.com/news/pump-science-profile-hacked-private-key-leaked-github
How Libra was Killed
https://cointelegraph.com/news/meta-failed-diem-blockchain-project-political-kill
Next Generation Cypherpunks
https://cpm23.com/nextgen-24
“US Government Should Never Sell Bitcoins” (Only We Will)
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/24/12/42291096/coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-the-us-government-should-never-sell-bitcoin
Roger Ver: US Tax Evasion is Constitutional
https://cointelegraph.com/news/roger-ver-files-dismiss-us-tax-charges-unconstitutional
Trump’s David Sacks and the Seperation of Money and State
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-way-separate-money-state-david-sacks