Molly White

crypto researcher & critic, software engineer, wikipedian • @web3isgreat creator • fellow @ Harvard Library Innovation Lab • writing https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/
she/her • :QueerCat_Bisexual:

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npub1lsqp7gn3qcgllnt28t7ufmyu3aumt00whutdk4vmkvp68per8t0q0dmx0m

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Last Notes

2024-08-29 00:06:39

eyeballed the tail length for a 100+ stitch long-tail cast-on and ended up with a perfect 6" tail... wondering if i should go buy a lottery ticket now
#knitting

2024-08-17 22:07:24

Newsletter: As parts of the crypto industry scramble to court the Harris administration with events like “Crypto4Harris”, others insist it is Harris who must “bend the knee”.
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-64/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #newsletter #CitationNeeded

2024-07-30 21:16:44

SCOOP: Coinbase appears to have violated campaign finance laws with a $25 million donation to the Fairshake cryptocurrency super PAC, made while they were in active negotiations for a federal government contract.
https://www.citationneeded.news/coinbase-campaign-finance-violation/
#CitationNeeded #Fairshake #Coinbase #USpolitics #USpol #crypto #cryptocurrency

2024-07-25 16:52:59

eleven of the Bitcoin 2024 speakers are named Matt
(screenshot is a portion of a longer list, not the entire list of speakers)
#crypto #Bitcoin2024
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2024-07-19 15:18:53

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Ryan Selkis has just announced he's stepping down as CEO from Messari.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics
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2024-07-18 16:30:15

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2024-07-05 23:59:26

How will recent Supreme Court decisions affect the crypto world? Also, more absurdity from the crypto lobby, and some new regulatory actions. Catch up in my latest newsletter: https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-61/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #CitationNeeded #newsletter #USpolitics

2024-06-22 17:49:43

PSA: Paying for a subscription on the crypto version of OnlyFans using a public blockchain does not give you "true privacy", regardless of what the models there might say.
#cryptocurrency
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2024-06-10 15:54:27

Cool blogroll project courtesy of @npub16gl…syzj. I like that it sorts based on recent posts, and shows a preview of those posts inline.
https://blogroll.social/

2024-05-30 19:54:56

Cryptocurrency companies have raised over $115 million to influence US elections this cycle, and they’re just getting started. We need to closely watch how cryptocurrency companies are influencing US politics. https://www.citationneeded.news/2024-cryptocurrency-election-spending/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #newsletter #CitationNeeded #superPACs #USpolitics #lobbying

2024-05-28 21:36:49

FTX's Ryan Salame has returned to Twitter for the first time since FTX collapsed — hours after he was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for his role in the FTX fraud and for his illegal campaign contributions 💀
#FTX #crypto #cryptocurrency
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2024-05-21 14:53:34

back in my day we called this spyware
#AI #privacy #Microsoft
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2024-05-15 15:41:17

very cool to see a quote from my recent writing on AI (https://citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless/) in a piece by Julia Angwin in the New York Times this morning!
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/opinion/artificial-intelligence-ai-openai-chatgpt-overrated-hype.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sE0.SV0g.r4iVMq0NT6z7&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
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2024-05-11 15:08:21

i...
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2024-04-30 19:03:57

Former #Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has been sentenced to four months in prison.
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/361/723/354/234/271/original/44a53c70d36ad3da.jpeg

2024-04-20 20:12:42

finally, the runes project has brought memecoins to the #bitcoin blockchain. at long last, we can finally buy PEPE•WIT•HONKERS
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2024-04-20 18:49:03

The SEC is asking the judge in the Terra lawsuit to order $4.2 billion in disgorgement, a $420 million penalty against Terraform Labs, and a $100 million penalty against Do Kwon.
They also want Kwon banned from serving as an officer or director of a publicly traded company.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66820843/231/securities-and-exchange-commission-v-terraform-labs-pte-ltd/
#Terra #DoKwon #crypto
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2024-04-17 17:19:58

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in a better world, this would prompt some self-reflection at the new york times
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2024-03-28 15:48:01

Sam Bankman-Fried has just been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
#

2024-03-24 18:32:04

most of the Sam Bankman-Fried/FTX victim impact statements are really heartbreaking. some of them are... not so much
"your honor, i got wrecked by buying a shitcoin"
#FTX #SBF #crypto
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2024-03-14 20:29:15

even the crypto industry journalists are over it
https://www.dlnews.com/articles/people-culture/why-i-need-chinese-liquor-for-hong-kong-crypto-conferences/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #web3
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2024-03-14 17:43:43

Justice James Mellor:
"Dr. Wright is not the author of the Bitcoin White Paper.
Second, Dr. Wright is not the person who adopted or operated under the pseudonym "Satoshi Nakamoto" in the period 2008 to 2011.
Third, Dr. Wright is not the person who created the Bitcoin System.
And, fourth, he is not the author of the initial versions of the Bitcoin software."
Full written judgment still to come.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #CraigWright #bitcoin #copa

2024-03-14 00:32:08

oh.
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2024-03-13 23:14:18

Issue 53 – Choose rich
Euphoria has risen along with crypto prices, but nothing has changed from the last bubble. Also in this issue: Tether-related defamation lawsuits, intra-government infighting, and a disappointing $300 million Bored Ape video game.
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-53/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #tether #bitcoin #CitationNeeded #newsletter

2024-03-12 15:14:47

Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has been ordered to surrender his Canadian passport. His bond conditions have also been updated to reflect previous rulings prohibiting him from leaving the US.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68026006/71/united-states-v-zhao/
#Binance #ChangpengZhao #CZ #crypto #cryptocurrency

2024-03-11 16:06:02

Kickstarter's bizarre blockchain announcement in December 2021 makes so much more sense now that we know Andreessen Horowitz secretly promised them $100 million to pivot to a blockchain-based product built on the also-a16z-backed Celo blockchain.
At the time, I wondered why COO Sean Leow was so insistent on the move despite being apparently very confused about the whole concept.
https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/11/kickstarter-blockchain-a16z-crypto-secret-investment-chris-dixon/
#AndreessenHorowitz #crypto #blockchain #kickstarter
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2024-02-28 19:08:58

Sam Bankman-Fried's mother, Barbara Fried, writes of her son's compassion in her letter to the judge. "To this day, Sam is the first person we would call if we needed an angel of mercy in a pinch."
....does she not know the common meaning of that phrase??
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590940/gov.uscourts.nysd.590940.407.15.pdf
#crypto #cryptocurrency #SBF #FTX
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2024-02-14 00:35:50

man i hate the mastodon/bluesky fighting

2024-02-11 20:51:23

When people say you should "own your own data", or that the future of the web is "ownership", what does that mean?
We need to talk about digital ownership.
https://www.citationneeded.news/we-need-to-talk-about-digital-ownership/
#CitationNeeded #newsletter #blog #web

2024-02-10 17:11:07

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drop your blog below please ⬇️

2024-02-10 17:04:26

fuck i love blogs. if i had nothing but time i would just read blogs all day.

2024-02-09 01:36:58

Motherboard found that firms linked to a16z and general partner Chris Dixon bought numerous copies of his new book promoting cryptocurrencies, which became an NYT Best Seller.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7emkx/chris-dixon-a16z-read-write-own-nyt-bestseller
#ChrisDixon #andreesenhorrowitz

2024-02-07 20:33:30

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Enjoying posting this to Mastodon, which I have been informed by Chris Dixon is a failure.
He's real mad Mastodon won't use a blockchain, btw.
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2024-02-07 20:08:07

Review: In "Read Write Own", the Andreessen Horowitz general partner and web3 superfan Chris Dixon lays out an unconvincing argument that blockchains are what it will take to fix the web.
https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/
#web3 #blockchain #cryptocurrency #crypto #AndreessenHorowitz #CitationNeeded

2024-01-28 00:52:12

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a later section in the same article uses the Betelguese spelling and I'm terrified to change it

2024-01-28 00:47:17

something gives me the sneaking suspicion there's been some controversy over spelling at the #Wikipedia article on Beetlejuice
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2024-01-25 18:38:21

suspicious if this cointelegraph illustrator has ever seen a person walk in heels
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2024-01-21 02:11:49

An online pastor was charged in CO for a $1.3 million #crypto scam. He's released a 9-minute-long video explaining that the Lord told him to sell a cryptocurrency with no clear exit", and spend some of the proceeds on "a home remodel the Lord told us to do".
Here's a supercut.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYB23Q3gJgE
or
https://www.tiktok.com/@molly0xfff/video/7326364339546459422

2024-01-15 17:37:36

finally! i've always wished i could look at my #NFTs on [checks notes] the dashboard of my mercedes
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2024-01-13 22:42:16

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@npub1wcu…vgyk would need to do a lot of additional work to integrate a separate mailsender — Ghost has built-in Mailgun support and that's it

2024-01-13 19:20:49

If you want all the gory details on how I migrated my Citation Needed newsletter from Substack to self-hosted Ghost, here they are:
https://citationneeded.news/substack-to-self-hosted-ghost/
Happy to try to help anyone else making this move!

2024-01-12 01:27:58

There goes @npub1a24…dkqm with Platformer, one of Substack's largest newsletters 👋
https://www.platformer.news/p/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack

2024-01-08 23:20:51

#substack, by first refusing to ban nazis under the guise of being a "free speech" platform, and then turning around and saying "actually we'll ban some of the nazis", has taken the route that will piss off the most people possible
good work, boys

2024-01-08 20:20:09

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@npub1gh4…mlt9 @npub1psd…9sr7 not terribly provocative, it's a question the free culture movement has been asking for decades, as have others for longer. but you'll excuse my skepticism around the authenticity of the arguments and motivations of many of the people just now beginning to have these conversations, who stand to profit enormously from what is — at the moment — IP theft

2024-01-08 18:18:44

it's impossible for me to be a multimillionaire without robbing a bank, therefore i should be allowed to rob banks
(headline: "‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says")
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/08/ai-tools-chatgpt-copyrighted-material-openai

2024-01-08 17:16:46

I enjoyed this more optimistic AI-adjacent prediction from Andrew Golis for @npub1hee…t884. It jibes with something I've been thinking about lately, which I talked about on Tech Won't Save Us: real humans like real human things, and AI companies can't change that.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/12/the-robots-will-make-us-more-human/
h/t @npub1kj4…5vdf for the share
#AI
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2024-01-05 17:26:55

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and now it's no longer online at all 😅 bear with me, you hugged it to death

2024-01-05 17:20:03

My Citation Needed newsletter is no longer on Substack!
https://citationneeded.news/citation-needed-has-a-new-home/
#substack #SubstackMigration

2023-11-23 16:18:34

okay, that's enough, we need to put a limit on names in the tech industry. if you're named sam and you're hoping to become a prominent figure in tech, please pick something else. mar(c/k)s, you're on notice too.

2023-11-22 00:06:54

What a week. A rundown on today's big news about Binance, plus some other action in the crypto enforcement world. Also a $100 million hack somehow happened without much hullabaloo.
https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/issue-44-four
#newsletter #CitationNeeded #Binance #crypto #cryptocurrency

2023-11-21 05:24:20

as a passionate supporter of free speech, i'm going to sue a publisher and author to force them to take down an article i didn't like
#Twitter #ElonMusk #MMfA
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2023-11-03 22:49:34

SBF is front page news, even on Wikipedia. Fun fact: I uploaded that photo!
#SBF #FTX #cryptocurrency #crypto #Wikipedia
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2023-10-10 18:00:30

in hindsight it may have been a mistake to google "gimp mask" to try to figure out how to do a layer mask in gimp, the free and open source equivalent of photoshop
#gimp

2023-09-21 19:08:19

In the criminal trial against Sam Bankman-Fried, the judge just granted the USA's motions to exclude testimony from all seven expert witnesses he has proposed.
The motion by SBF to exclude the government's one proposed witness, accounting professor Peter Easton, was denied.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66631292/287/united-states-v-bankman-fried/
#SBF #FTX #USvSBF

2023-08-30 14:24:55

Sam Bankman-Fried's attorneys say that he needs to be released from custody and returned to his parents house so that he can spend more time reviewing documents and preparing his defense than he is able to in jail with limited access to the Internet.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66631292/240/united-states-v-bankman-fried/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #SBF #FTX

2023-08-27 16:08:07

well that's quite the twist... the government just alleged that, while searching Avi Eisenberg's devices for evidence pertaining to his exploit of the Mango Markets crypto project, they found child sexual abuse material
More on the exploit:
Document in screenshot: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66709457/36/united-states-v-eisenberg/
#crypto #cryptocurrency
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2023-08-23 15:31:25

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"The whole 'crypto is permissionless and censorship-resistant' thing is a bunch of bullshit," said one sex worker interviewed by Wired.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #SexWork

2023-08-23 15:30:38

The efforts of sex work advocates are better invested, says Stabile, in campaigning for new laws that would make it illegal for banks to discriminate against sex workers on the basis of their profession, than in developing an alternative financial system.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #SexWork
https://www.wired.com/story/sex-workers-crypto-failing-them/

2023-08-19 17:44:52

Finally, Paris asked why I keep covering crypto even though the hype has died down, and whether I'm losing interest in the space.
#TechCriticism #crypto #cryptocurrency
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2023-08-17 22:20:00

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yes i know tor is dweb
it's annoying when web3 tries to subsume non-blockchain dweb projects to legitimize itself, and even more annoying when those projects go along with it

2023-08-17 22:10:57

"tor and other web3 projects"? 🤨
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2023-08-17 22:04:32

the fuck was that?
#crypto #cryptocurrency
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2023-08-16 17:30:59

the New York Times is really scraping the barrel here to defend crypto
"you'll learn a lot from making bad investment decisions"
#crypto #cryptocurrency #Bitcoin
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2023-08-12 01:15:35

i hope if i ever have the misfortune of appearing before a federal judge, courtroom sketch artists will also make me look shredded
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2023-08-11 19:23:48

it was the fuck aroundiest of times, it was the find outiest of times

2023-08-11 14:58:13

i have zero regrets about planting twelve shishito pepper plants
#gardening #peppers
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2023-08-09 15:35:16

day 1 of atlas's "separation anxiety" medication is off to a strong start
#dogs #dogsofmastodon
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2023-08-06 15:10:32

#baking #pie
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2023-08-04 19:02:46

A long explanation of the arguments around whether Sam Bankman-Fried should go back to jail, updates on crypto court cases, and a recap of the $100M+ in exploits we've seen over the past week.
https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/issue-35-pondering-my-orb

2023-04-04 18:07:52

the cats did not need a new bed but they did need THIS bed
#[0]
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2023-03-30 16:37:06

see ya, feedly. shameful stuff.
#[0] #[1]
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