checking in on decentralized assets intended to be independent from governments and big banks #crypto #cryptocurrency

Newsletter: A major crypto scandal tarnishes the reputation of Solana bigwigs, crypto influencers, and Argentine President Javier Milei. “This is FTX type of shit,” said a crypto founder confronting Meteora’s Ben Chow over alleged insider trading. www.citationneeded.news/issue-77 #crypto #cryptocurrency #Argentina

“We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.” Harvard Library lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02/06/announcing-data-gov-archive bsky.app/profile/harvardlil.bsky.social/post/3lhjzh7f54226 #archival

The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control. Digital sovereignty is more important than ever. #DigitalSovereignty

nothing is certain except death, taxes, and tech bros trying to reinvent something they spent 10 minutes learning about

filed under “Reddit comments that didn’t age well” #crypto #cryptocurrency #Terra

in case you needed a reason to volunteer at your local public library: today the librarians let me pick a theme for and then curate one of the featured displays. time to get this town reading more space operas! #PublicLibraries

The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much? www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war-on-wikipedia #Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol

Newsletter: Adversary cases from the FTX collapse further expose how crypto companies do business: with secret acquisitions of “grey area” businesses, buying influence, and creative accounting. www.citationneeded.news/not-just-one-bad-apple #crypto #cryptocurrency #FTX