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independent writer of citationneeded.news and @web3isgoinggreat.com • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian support my work: citationneeded.news/signup links: mollywhite.net/linktree
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(the relative time in the screenshot makes this a little confusing, but it’s not an old screenshot. he posted this three days ago, on June 6)
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they also have a hosted version that's pretty straightforward!
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The ruling was described as "disturbingly flippant" in a dissenting opinion
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Red Rising is on my shortlist!
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ooh that looks very fun, thank you!
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overlap of the cozy (low stakes, heartwarming) and litRPG (fantasy with explicit video game/RPG elements like character stats) genres
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bsky.app/profile/moll...
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Video also on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV0B...
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Full reading list:
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All this plus Circle’s IPO, the Department of Labor’s rescission of guidance around crypto in 401(k)s, another crypto kidnapping, fifteen lawsuits against Coinbase, and even more in this recap issue of Citation Needed.
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SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw is warning of “regulatory Jenga” that “feels all too familiar to those of who have lived through 2008”.
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The crypto industry is trying to ram through the CLARITY Act, a flawed bill that reads like it was written by industry lobbyists.
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Trump’s memecoin dinner happened on May 22, though the people who spent millions of dollars on $​TRUMP memecoins to secure invitations were treated to mediocre food and only a brief appearance by the president.
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Magic Eden is likely scrambling to salvage what has become an embarrassing public relations disaster as the Trump sons have sent cease-and-desist letters over their and the $​TRUMP memecoins’ use of the Trump brand.
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www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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^ btw this link or my original post at www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/... will also reflect updates.
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appreciate the rec!
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no. I've dabbled a tiny bit with FOSS graph tools for projects like this, but the stuff targeted towards intelligence/law enforcement tends to be more than slightly out of my budget 🙂
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It’s just an image. I started it in Gephi but it was giving me more trouble than doing it in Lucidchart (which is where this image came from)
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fraid so
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it’s good software, i’ve used it a lot in the past for projects like this: www.mollywhite.net/etc/ftx-cont...
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Lucidchart
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not involved in the crypto side of things as far as i’ve seen
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Fullsize image also at storage.mollywhite.net/trump-family...
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This diagram is of course limited to what is publicly disclosed, and you’ll see a few places where links are uncertain, and where LLCs’ operators are partially or completely unknown. The flow of money is also a very partial accounting.
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However, it’s still not fully clear to me how the memecoin end of the business could launch a wallet using Trump’s name and likeness without the sons’ knowledge unless the original licensing agreement for the memecoin was extremely broad.
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It is very plausible to me that Trump has sold his likeness to so many separate projects, not to mention his sons also using the “Trump” branding, that no one really knows what’s going on in aggregate.
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The relative separation between World Liberty Financial and the Trump memecoin projects, both of which are trying to develop defi trading platforms, may help to explain the chaos around the latter’s wallet launch announcement yesterday.