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The Reddit team learned from its previous drop in April, implementing anti-bot measures such as CAPTCHA to ensure a smoother rollout. In addition, the team is launching "initial access" for the first day of the release, which looks at your account age and "other metrics" and limits the number of
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In 2021, that blissful ignorance suddenly became impossible. We first saw this with the debate over the infrastructure bill, most importantly in the U.S. Senate, when the impositions of a contentious tax reporting provision for cryptocurrency sales had the ironic effect of demonstrating that crypto had arrived in Washington. The
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Welcome to this week’s Money Reimagined, coming to you two days into a new U.S. presidency. Already, with various executive orders and a host of cabinet and agency nominee names emerging, President Joe Biden has fostered the palpable sense of a slate being cleaned. As for what it means for crypto, the
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In the lore of digital disruption, Eastman Kodak Co.’s downfall looms large.Kodak was once one of the world’s most powerful companies. But it failed to act on digital cameras and online photo sharing, despite seeing the trends years before. (Kodak engineer Steve Sasson created the first digital camera in 1975.)It’s
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The good news is America is not in the midst of a full-blown civil war – not yet, at least. But, however you feel about Joe Biden’s apparent victory in the most difficult presidential election in living memory, you’d be foolish to believe all is well in this country. Four years
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For this special Halloween edition, CryptoX Executive Editor Marc Hochstein weighs in with a guest column about the spookier aspects of the banking system. It’s a perfect follow-up to last week’s newsletter on the harmful legacy of the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act. Before you dig into it, let me remind you
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At a 2015 blockchain event, Nairobi-based bitcoin pioneer Elizabeth Rossiello answered an audience question about the impact on Somalians of a recent shutdown in remittance inflows after the U.S. government had labeled the country a “high-risk jurisdiction.” The AZA Group CEO’s answer was blunt: “They starve.”Ever since then I’ve come
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The Money Reimagined PodcastAfter reading this newsletter, make sure you check out the latest edition of our podcast. This week, Sheila Warren and I talk to Hyperledger Executive Director Brian Behlendorf about self-sovereign identity, the topic of the column below. A developer whose three-decade career has seen him deeply involved in
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Haunting red skies, a mounting death toll and a giant swath of smoldering devastation across 12 western U.S. states compels us to talk this week about climate change and what it means for the cryptocurrency industry. Because, whether you like it or not, both of those things are not going away. Sadly,
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For Australians of my generation, historian Geoffrey Blainey’s phrase the “tyranny of distance” was the defining descriptor of our place in the world, a place that seemed awfully far from everyone else. In September of 2020, with hundreds of millions of broadband-connected homes using global video-conferencing services like Zoom and with
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