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  In July 2024, I reported that Coinbase appeared to be violating campaign finance law by making contributions while holding federal contracts. I filed an FEC complaint alongside Public Citizen. The FEC hasn’t acted. Since, Coinbase has given $60M more and landed another federal contract. https://www.washingtonsun.com/influence/coinbase-marshal-service-contract-political-contributions #Coinbase #USpol #USpolitics

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  North Korea’s timing was inconsiderate; I’m in the middle of an election night guide to crypto and AI super PAC spending (subscribe to get it before Tuesday!). But I wrote up a primer on the Binance hack, answering questions I’ve gotten about North Korea: https://www.citationneeded.news/its-always-north-korea/ #crypto #cryptocurrency #binance #NorthKorea #DPRK

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  Updated: Binance estimates its losses at ~$3B+, making this the largest exploit in crypto history — twice the size of 2025’s Bybit hack, now in second place. Binance blames a compromised devops laptop. North Korea, also behind Bybit, is the suspected culprit. https://www.citationneeded.news/binance-theft/ #binance #crypto #cryptocurrency

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  I wrote up what we know about the Binance hack so far. By my best estimate, Binance is out $1.5–$3 billion after stablecoin issuers froze what they could. Changpeng Zhao is promising Binance will cover it, but he’s legally barred from running the company. https://www.citationneeded.news/binance-theft/ #binance #crypto #cryptocurrency

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  It looks like Binance is getting drained right now, across multiple hot wallets, for $2B and counting. Pretty normal for exchanges to migrate wallets, NOT normal for them to then swap to Tether and dump

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  government transparency is going just great

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  someone at Polymarket is drafting a tweet about how their users accurately predicted the Brazilian election result within one point #polymarket

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  Last week, I went on Meidas Defense to talk about crypto as a national security problem. Sanctioned states’ crypto receipts are up almost 700%. Full interview: https://www.meidasplus.com/p/crypto-corruption-and-trump-unpacking Shorter cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv8egQ0veWY #cryptocurrency #crypto

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  a sight for sore eyes #php

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  truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4” http://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/the-internet-goes-on-high-alert-after-discovery-of-8-compromised-tls-certs/ #eMudhra

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  i’ve been writing about crypto for a while now, but this new addition to the $TRUMP memecoin website fine print may be the most blatant “lol you suckers are our exit liquidity” i’ve seen so far (CIC Digital is just a shell company Trump uses for the $​TRUMP memecoin and some other projects; it’s wholly owned by Trump’s revocable trust) #crypto #cryptocurrency

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  Newsletter: A Trump crypto adviser’s firm took millions from Tether while he shaped stablecoin rules in their favor, a Senate probe targets Commerce Secretary Lutnick’s not-so-former firm, and crypto’s biggest super PAC plays it safe. https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-111/ #crypo #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

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  This WSJ investigation exposes yet more Tether-related corruption at the White House, revealing that they paid Bo Hines' consulting firm millions as he was ensuring the Genius Act stablecoin law would benefit them. I needed a diagram. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/crypto-law-trump-tether-bo-hines-45bcd95d #crypto #tether #USpol #USpolitics

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  fixed that for you #Wikipedia

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  every d&d podcast has quietly agreed that the bane spell requires somatic, material, and tom hardy components

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  “Wikimedia’s volunteers are the ones who come in first contact with, and clean up the mess left behind by AI agents. ... Wikimedia’s volunteers have stayed resilient so far in tackling emerging challenges on our platforms, but we also want to say: it doesn’t need to be this way.” https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/openai-rogue-agent-activities-found-on-wikimedia-projects/ #Wikimedia #OpenAI

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  doctor: the med you’ve been on your whole adult life has stopped working for your severe anxiety me: ok and the supplemental one isn’t doing anything either doctor: have you tried yoga

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  “While OpenAI admits to agents behaving ‘unpredictably’, they must also acknowledge their responsibility to monitor and prevent these risks,” Wikimedia said. “AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems and protect the public from the harm they cause.” https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/openai-agents-tried-to-hack-wikipedia-tools-and-flooded-it-with-traffic/ #Wikimedia #OpenAi

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  saw a great tip about using a dog training clicker to mark where you mess up a take in an audio recording, because it generates a nice clean pattern in the waveform that makes it easy to spot works great, but my dog is going nuts

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  AI has (incorrectly) identified me as the author of a smut book called “My Grumpy Billionaire Secret” and offered to replace my AI audiobooks with new AI audio the future is now #AI

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  Newsletter: Regulators race to reassure the crypto industry as the its flagship Clarity Act legislation collapses, SBF tries his luck with the Supreme Court, and crypto PACs unleash $30 million against Sherrod Brown. https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-110/ #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

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  Binance has just filed to dismiss with prejudice its defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, which it filed in March after the Journal published various reports about a possible DOJ investigation into Binance over violations of sanctions against Iran. https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-102/#binance #Binance

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  sometimes you just have to admire the work ethic of some scammers. i can barely keep up with a couple text message chains but this guy had 60+ people convinced they were in a relationship

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  The Clarity Act cloture vote has failed by a 49–50 margin; well short of the 60 votes needed. No Democrats crossed over to vote for the bill, and three Republicans voted against. Senator Collins’ (R-ME) NO vote on Clarity was the most surprising today. She was defending the bill to constituents as recently as last week. My guess is she did not believe the bill had a chance to pass, and was more worried about defending a yes vote as her re-election prospects look slimmer. #crypto #cryptocurrenc...

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  Newsletter: The supposedly “unprecedented” ethics restrictions in the industry-written Clarity Act exempt Trump’s crypto businesses and leave enforcement to his loyalists. Senators must vote no on cloture tomorrow. https://www.citationneeded.news/clarity-act-ethics-charade/ #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #ClarityAct #CitationNeededNewsletter

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  me and my runaway zucchini patch beg to differ

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  Coinbase must be concerned I'm at risk of running out of material

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  • NVIDIA DGX Spark (AI-focused PC) • Gemini Spark (AI agent) • Meta Muse Spark (LLM) can someone please inform these companies that there is more than one noun available to them #AI

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  it's funny to me that the non-RGB versions of computer hardware now sometimes go for ~$20 more than the RGB

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  made some tiny stamps out of lino scraps to make labels for my jam jars #printmaking #linocut