A profile of stablecoin developer Tether, which has withstood huge redemption runs during the current brutal crypto winter, competition, and regulatory pressure
Amid crypto's existential crisis, its largest liquidity provider, Tether, has withstood multiple multibillion-dollar redemption runs. Tweets: @mdudas , @silvermanjacob , and @sarahnemerson Tweets: Mik...
How El Salvador President Nayib Bukele weaponized bitcoin to whitewash his government's growing authoritarianism on the world stage and spread local propaganda
and lining their pockets — at the expense of our rights and livelihoods.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Alex Gladstein / @gladstein : “Bitcoiners aren't supposed to trust government. After all, one of B...
How El Salvador President Nayib Bukele weaponized bitcoin to whitewash his government's growing authoritarianism on the world stage and spread local propaganda
SAN SALVADOR — Bitcoiners — enthusiasts of the world's most popular cryptocurrency — aren't supposed to trust government. Tweets: @timmuth , @fredbenenson , @schwarz , @stalfel , @gladstein , @nytopin...
A look at the evolution of crypto staking, from a useful tool to a quasi-Ponzi scheme, and how Yuga Labs is effectively paying people in ApeCoin to hold ApeCoin
Recently, I was contacted by a member of the board of ApeCoin, which is the BAYC token's equivalent of a board of directors I guess. Tweets: @cobie , @degenspartan , @cobie , @choffstein , @deezefi , ...
Through her version of Fearless, Taylor Swift is showing artists how to use the power of the internet to ascribe value to work they own and devalue the rest
In July 2014 Taylor Swift wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal entitled, For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music Is a Love Story: Tweets: @kylesamani , @patio11 , @hazukieth , and @mdudas See a...
New mathematical model-based research suggests that exposing US social media users to viewpoints different than their own furthers political polarization
Mathematicians are teaming up with political scientists to create models of how social media divides us, and results suggest at least … Tweets: @mims , @ingridlunden , @mims , @somospostpc , @rjcc , @...
TikTok's rise in the US should serve as a cautionary tale for social media startups, as it had to spend billions of dollars on ads on rival platforms to compete
Can anyone really compete? — 1 hr … Hi all, I'm Adam Conner, longtime fan of The Margins, first-time contributor. Tweets: @readmargins , @mdudas , @adamconner , @adamconner , @hkanji , @mattzeitlin ...
A deep dive into how Robinhood makes money and how its UX design and algorithmic nudges can lead some inexperienced investors to undertake riskier trades
Don't be the gravy … For someone who clearly has strong opinions they enjoy communicating with others, investing occupies a weird place for me. Tweets: @sanatvc , @iggyfanlo , @cyprianfrancis , @richa...
Sources describe stories of young, inexperienced investors on Robinhood engaging in riskier trades at far higher volumes than customers of other brokerages
Its users buy and sell the riskiest financial products and do so more frequently than customers at other retail brokerage firms … Tweets: @fintechfrank , @gunjanjs , @stevekopack , @iamkoshiek , @nath...
Review finds Amazon is using the top-left slot of its search results pages, a premier bid slot for brands, to promote its private labels during the pandemic
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. Tweets: @cobrapost , @ctmirror , @patrick_hruby , @mdudas , ...