Issue 79 – Mundus sine Caesaribus
The crypto industry frees itself from the last remnants of SEC oversight, and Solana tries to appeal to its target demographic by bashing trans people
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Frankly I think the majority of the crypto backlash to the anti-trans Solana ad was because they made it too obvious that they've realized anti-woke MAGA reactionaries are the latest marks
Solana just published a trans-bashing ad, where a man sees a therapist because he's been "having thoughts again ... about innovation ... crypto, AI" and she urges him to "channel his energy into something more productive like coming up with a new gender ... Why don't we focus on pronouns? ... Numbers are non-binary."
It finishes: "America is back. It's time to accelerate."
In June 2020, Solana tweeted: "We believe in equality, justice for all regardless of race or gender, and that #BlackLivesMatter. We stand in solidarity with everyone fighting for justice."
Solana's Raj Gokal: In crypto, "it doesn't really matter what the regulators think"
I guess the "we want clear, sensible regulations" charade isn't needed anymore
Gokal remarks that in the crypto world, "People will completely ignore reality if their investments are predicated on a different reality."
SBF's master plan right now is to whine that his bribes didn't work on the Democrats and go "but I bribed the Republicans too!" and then wait expectantly
Tucker Carlson explicitly acknowledges the purpose of political megadonations
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Sam Bankman-Fried is doing 25 years behind bars, and is now sharing a cell block with Diddy. He joins us from prison for an update on his new life.
(0:00) What Has Prison Been Like?
(2:28) Was SBF Ever on Adderall?
(4:42) SBF Meeting Diddy in Prison
(7:01) How Prison Has Changed SBF’s Perspective
[begin highlight] (9:37) The Democrats Refused to Rescue SBF Despite His Large Donations [end highlight]
(15:24) The Future of Crypto Under Donald Trump
(21:17) Does SBF Have Any Money Left?
(24:42) Tucker Confronts SBF About His Effective Altruism Cult
(31:13) Will SBF Ever Actually Get Out of Prison?
(36:41) Why All of SBF’s Friends, Family, and Co-Workers Abandoned Him
Includes paid partnerships.](https://storage.mollywhite.net/micro/ad6d77436555a8593579_GlcbJ27WoAAX9O6.jpeg)
Eric Trump plainly admits that his father’s Sunday social media post about the “crypto strategic reserve” was intended to manipulate the crypto markets
Issue 78 – President on brink of bailout for bitcoin
Trump tries to breathe life back into the crypto markets’ “Trump pump” while federal regulatory agencies wash their hands of any crypto industry oversight
checking in on decentralized assets intended to be independent from governments and big banks
It’s a shame to see Sci-Hub falling for web3 hype and adding a pumpfun memecoin ticker to their webpage. Blockchain-based DNS does not automatically mean “decentralized”, and 3DNS — the company behind .box — is based in the US and would be subject to US court orders.
![Sci-Hub is now available on two new domains: [redacted] and [redacted].box. What is special here is that .box domain is blockchain-based, which makes it decentralized and somewhat more resistant to censorship (hopefully!) The domain address was donated to Sci-Hub by user. The website also runs a new version of Sci-Hub with boxed design (under construction at the moment, but will be running on all mirrors soon)](https://storage.mollywhite.net/micro/fb648a2c0d38e8029316_Screenshot-2025-02-17-at-2.39.42---PM.png)
Someone unaffiliated with Sci-Hub created the memecoin, claiming to be fundraising, but said only 20% of proceeds would go to Sci-Hub. Founder Alexandra Elbakyan herself condemned this.
I guess things changed bc there is now a crypto ticker showing the memecoin price on the Sci-Hub front page, and the donations page also prominently lists it.
Sci-Hub has long fundraised by accepting donations of major cryptocurrencies, which makes sense. But the memecoin seems like a terrible idea, and it’s not clear what they’re even trying to do with the web3 domain.