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The Node
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The biggest crypto news and ideas of the day.
Worldcoin and the Intellectual Decline of Venture Capital
Sam Altman’s spectacularly ill-conceived biometric data project just raised $115 million dollars. Digging into the deal is embarrassing for basically everyone.

DeSantis and the Growing Culture War Around Bitcoin
CoinDesk’s story this week about a fight over a bitcoin mining facility in Upstate New York reveals how cryptocurrency issues are quickly becoming politicized in familiar ways.

Cathie Wood Thinks the U.S. Crypto Exodus Is Here. Is It?
Strike, Coinbase and others have intimated they may leave the United States due to regulatory pressure. But those might be empty threats.

Crypto's Open Source Ethos Yields Results
It’s crypto winter and a time for building, as innovative new open-source projects on Polkadot and Cosmos can attest.

Celebrating Bitcoin Pizza Day: the Time a Bitcoin User Bought 2 Pizzas for 10,000 BTC
Laszlo Hanyecz did not spend $270 million buying Papa Johns, CoinDesk's George Kaloudis writes.

Ledger’s Hard Lesson: Being Right Isn't Good Enough
Public communication doesn’t work like computer code. The French hardware wallet maker learned that the hard way.

Should We Worry About Tether’s Bitcoin-Buying Plan?
Squint and you can see resemblances to Do Kwon’s bitcoin buying during Terra/luna’s high days.

What Does the Debt Limit Showdown Mean for Bitcoin?
A U.S. debt default could catapult the cryptocurrency onto the international stage.

Sam Bankman-Fried's Ties to George Santos Are Just the Beginning
Donations to the lying congressman were just a grace note in FTX's symphony of alleged corruption.

What’s the Reality of Crypto in Crime?
The DOJ's Eun Young Choi said the agency is constantly finding crypto connections in its criminal investigations. But how deep does the problem go and how much should we blame the blockchain?
