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Molly White
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
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Crypto has gone from a supplement to shell companies and shadow banks to core infrastructure for sanctioned states.
While crypto used to be more of a supplement to the usual shell companies and shadow banks that sanctioned states rely on, now it is core infrastructure.
citationneeded.newsSaid 23 Oct 2026This on korrents
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Crypto PACs and advocacy groups often back shoo-in candidates so they can later claim their win rate reflects broad public support for the crypto agenda.
the crypto PACs and advocacy groups often support shoo-in candidates so that they can later claim that their win rate reflects some silent majority of Americans who support the "crypto agenda".
citationneeded.newsSaid 16 Oct 2026This on korrents
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Crypto has gone from a supplement to shell companies and shadow banks to core infrastructure for sanctioned states.Their words
While crypto used to be more of a supplement to the usual shell companies and shadow banks that sanctioned states rely on, now it is core infrastructure.
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the crypto PACs and advocacy groups often support shoo-in candidates so that they can later claim that their win rate reflects some silent majority of Americans who support the "crypto agenda".
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From one piece Issue 110 – The Clarity Act collapses 2 beliefs · citationneeded.news
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Regulatory changes made by an administration can be reversed by its successor, while legislation is far more durable.Their words
But those are changes that can be reversed when Trump leaves office. Legislation is far more durable - which is why the crypto industry so desperately wanted the Clarity Act to lock in deregulation.
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The Clarity Act isn't about "clarity" any more than the PATRIOT Act is about patriotism. It promised regulatory structure but would have carved out crypto from the scrutiny applied to similar financial products, instead building a custom regime to allow it to operate without meaningful oversight.
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From one piece The Senate must reject the Clarity Act’s ethics charade 2 beliefs · citationneeded.news
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A vote for cloture tomorrow by any Senator - Democrat or Republican - is a vote to legitimize the most brazen self-dealing in presidential history and pave the road for yet more future abuses.
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The result is not "clear rules of the road", it's industry-drafted deregulation with a loophole-ridden ethics section bolted on only after Republicans realized that even the pro-crypto Democrats installed with the help of $130 million in industry spending wouldn't sign off on a bill placing no limits on Trump's historic grift.
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Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 8: A Parade of HorriblesTheir words
A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman . Published 2026 . 704 pages. fantasy , humor , litRPG Started August 27, 2026 . Currently reading
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The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, Book 4)Their words
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman . Published 2023 . 421 pages. crime , humor , mystery Started August 19, 2026 ; completed August 21, 2026. Read
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The Palace Job (Rogues of the Republic, Book 1)Their words
The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes . Published 2012 . 438 pages. fantasy , heist , humor Started July 17, 2026 ; completed August 16, 2026. Read
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Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, Book 1)Their words
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir . Published 2019 . 448 pages. fantasy , LGBT , science fiction Started July 16, 2026 ; completed July 17, 2026. Read
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Korrents What they believe 18 beliefs — each backed by an exact quote.
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Crypto has gone from a supplement to shell companies and shadow banks to core infrastructure for sanctioned states.
While crypto used to be more of a supplement to the usual shell companies and shadow banks that sanctioned states rely on, now it is core infrastructure.
On Meidas Defense: cryptocurrency, sanctions, and Trump quid pro quo Said 23 Oct 2026
Crypto PACs and advocacy groups often back shoo-in candidates so they can later claim their win rate reflects broad public support for the crypto agenda.
the crypto PACs and advocacy groups often support shoo-in candidates so that they can later claim that their win rate reflects some silent majority of Americans who support the "crypto agenda".
Issue 111 – Back the winners Said 16 Oct 2026
A bill marketed as bringing regulatory clarity to crypto can instead carve the industry out of the scrutiny applied to similar financial products.
The Clarity Act isn't about "clarity" any more than the PATRIOT Act is about patriotism. It promised regulatory structure but would have carved out crypto from the scrutiny applied to similar financial products, instead building a custom regime to allow it to operate without meaningful oversight.
Issue 110 – The Clarity Act collapses Said 2 Oct 2026
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Regulatory changes made by an administration can be reversed by its successor, while legislation is far more durable.
But those are changes that can be reversed when Trump leaves office. Legislation is far more durable - which is why the crypto industry so desperately wanted the Clarity Act to lock in deregulation.
Issue 110 – The Clarity Act collapses Said 2 Oct 2026
The Clarity Act is industry-drafted deregulation rather than clear rules of the road, with a loophole-ridden ethics section added only to win over pro-crypto Democrats.
The result is not "clear rules of the road", it's industry-drafted deregulation with a loophole-ridden ethics section bolted on only after Republicans realized that even the pro-crypto Democrats installed with the help of $130 million in industry spending wouldn't sign off on a bill placing no limits on Trump's historic grift.
The Senate must reject the Clarity Act’s ethics charade Said 14 Sept 2026
A senator's vote for the Clarity Act, whatever their party, legitimizes the most brazen self-dealing in presidential history and paves the way for further abuses.
A vote for cloture tomorrow by any Senator - Democrat or Republican - is a vote to legitimize the most brazen self-dealing in presidential history and pave the road for yet more future abuses.
The Senate must reject the Clarity Act’s ethics charade Said 14 Sept 2026
What has gone wrong online belongs to the industry that grew up around the web, not to the web itself, which is still a substrate anyone can build on.
The web is still just a substrate on which anything can be built. Most importantly, the web is the people who use it, not the companies that have established themselves around it.
Fighting for our web Said 7 Oct 2024
Whether the open web survives will be decided by what ordinary people collectively do, not by the companies that profit from it.
But the platforms do not exist without the people, and there are a lot more of us than there are of them.
Fighting for our web Said 7 Oct 2024
The web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading.
What is out there is buried among ever-growing piles of useless content farm material or, increasingly, AI-generated garbage.
Fighting for our web Said 7 Oct 2024
Websites outside the big platforms have become hard to find at all, and that is a large part of why they can no longer sustain themselves.
Websites outside of these handful of social networks are harder and harder to even find, and partially because of that, they have a harder and harder time sustaining themselves.
Fighting for our web Said 7 Oct 2024
One person building something honest and small can shift how a whole industry is seen, without a platform or a job at a big publication.
And it doesn’t always take a job at The New York Times or a huge pre-established platform to become one of the voices speaking up, helping to turn that tide.
Fighting for our web Said 7 Oct 2024
A dominant platform is more fragile than it looks, because pushing users far enough makes even the locked-in ones leave.
The platforms have installed themselves in a position of power, but they are also vulnerable. They must do everything perfectly to maintain that position of power—not enrage their users too much, not push the regulators too far, not miss any of those competitors who are seeking to take a portion of that power.
Fighting for our web Said 7 Oct 2024
Your own site stays the master source even once the work is syndicated everywhere else.
With this model, even when a platform goes under, you lose relatively little: your posts still remain live and under your control on your site, even if the copies of them on the disconnected website are abandoned or deleted.
POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world Said 27 Sept 2024
Publishing on your own site first removes the length, format and style limits that every social platform imposes on what you can say.
Next to proper ownership of your own work, my favorite thing about POSSE is that it massively expands what you can publish, far beyond the limitations imposed by most social media (and especially microblogging) platforms that try to enforce some uniformity in post style, length, and appearance.
POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world Said 27 Sept 2024
Federation is the real fix for losing your community every time a platform dies, but it does not work yet, so publishing on your own site and syndicating out is the interim answer.
I think federation is the long-term solution to these problems. Eventually, I dream we will be able to seamlessly interact with people across platforms.
POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world Said 27 Sept 2024
Every migration to a new platform costs a community members it never gets back, and everyone has a limit on how many times they will pay it.
Each shift takes its toll, and everyone has a limit of how much energy they’re willing to expend on a new platform that will eventually, like its predecessors, join the graveyard of defunct websites.
POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world Said 27 Sept 2024
Nothing about the web technically prevents a return to what people loved about the old web; the good old days are available and would be easier to build now than they ever were.
The thing is: none of this is gone. Nothing about the web has changed that prevents us from going back.
We can have a different web Said 1 May 2024
Most people now spend their time online inside a handful of platforms, seeing what the owners of those platforms steer them towards.
Most of us spend our days within the confines of a handful of platforms, wandering around to admire what people have done with the seeds they are allowed in the space they are allotted, with platform owners directing us to the gardens they think we might like — or, more often, the ones they think will keep us within their walls for longer.
We can have a different web Said 1 May 2024
Beliefs others hold too
The web is being flooded with coherent, generic, generated text that buries the writing worth reading. 3 hold this
What is out there is buried among ever-growing piles of useless content farm material or, increasingly, AI-generated garbage.
Fighting for our web Said 7 Oct 2024
Whether the open web survives will be decided by what ordinary people collectively do, not by the companies that profit from it. 2 hold this
But the platforms do not exist without the people, and there are a lot more of us than there are of them.
Fighting for our web Said 7 Oct 2024
A dominant platform is more fragile than it looks, because pushing users far enough makes even the locked-in ones leave. 2 hold this
The platforms have installed themselves in a position of power, but they are also vulnerable. They must do everything perfectly to maintain that position of power—not enrage their users too much, not push the regulators too far, not miss any of those competitors who are seeking to take a portion of that power.
Fighting for our web Said 7 Oct 2024
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Read Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 8: A Parade of Horribles
A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman . Published 2026 . 704 pages. fantasy , humor , litRPG Started August 27, 2026 . Currently reading
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Read The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, Book 4)
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman . Published 2023 . 421 pages. crime , humor , mystery Started August 19, 2026 ; completed August 21, 2026. Read
mollywhite.net 21 Aug 2026
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Read The Palace Job (Rogues of the Republic, Book 1)
The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes . Published 2012 . 438 pages. fantasy , heist , humor Started July 17, 2026 ; completed August 16, 2026. Read
mollywhite.net 16 Aug 2026
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Read Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, Book 1)
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir . Published 2019 . 448 pages. fantasy , LGBT , science fiction Started July 16, 2026 ; completed July 17, 2026. Read
mollywhite.net 17 Jul 2026
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Kindred by Octavia E. Butler . Audiobook. Published 1979 . 295 pages. classics , fantasy , historical , science fiction Started September 21, 2025 . Did not finish
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Read Angels Flight (Harry Bosch, Book 6)
Angels Flight by Michael Connelly . Audiobook. Published 1999 . 454 pages. crime , mystery , thriller Started September 17, 2025 ; completed September 18, 2025. Read
mollywhite.net 18 Sept 2025
Read The Rubber Band (Nero Wolfe, Book 3)
The Rubber Band by Rex Stout . Published 1936 . 208 pages. crime , mystery Started September 4, 2025 ; completed September 17, 2025. Read
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Where they publish
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- Crypto and AI’s $250 million election goes sideways 4 Nov 2026 The industries’ biggest bets lost almost across the board.
- A crypto and AI money guide to election night 3 Nov 2026 Where crypto and AI super PACs are spending, what their ads won’t talk about, and which races could embarrass them.
- It’s always North Korea 30 Oct 2026 Answering your questions about who was behind the Binance hack, how they launder the money, and where it goes
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- North Korea gets away with $3 billion from Binance 29 Oct 2026 Stablecoin issuers froze about $2.4 billion of the roughly $6.4 billion stolen. The rest exceeds Binance’s insurance fund, and the man promising to make users whole isn’t supposed to be running the company.
- On Meidas Defense: cryptocurrency, sanctions, and Trump quid pro quo 23 Oct 2026 Last week I joined Joe Plenzler on the Meidas Defense podcast to talk about crypto. Meidas Defense is the MeidasTouch Network’s national security show, so we spent more time than I usually do on crypto as a geopolitical…
- Issue 111 – Back the winners 16 Oct 2026 A Trump crypto adviser’s firm took millions from Tether while he shaped stablecoin rules in their favor, a Senate probe targets Commerce Secretary Lutnick’s not-so-former firm, and crypto’s biggest super PAC plays it sa…
- Issue 110 – The Clarity Act collapses 2 Oct 2026 Regulators race to reassure the crypto industry as the industry’s flagship legislation collapses, SBF tries his luck with the Supreme Court, and crypto PACs unleash $30 million against Sherrod Brown
- The Senate must reject the Clarity Act’s ethics charade 14 Sept 2026 The supposedly “unprecedented” ethics restrictions exempt Trump’s crypto businesses and leave enforcement to his loyalists
- Issue 109 – Reg Crypto 31 Aug 2026 The SEC’s “Reg Crypto” aims to carve out exemptions, the CFTC wields emergency powers to shield prediction markets from state regulators, and a Trump family crypto firm gets a bank charter
- Issue 108 – In a word, applesauce 11 Aug 2026 Firms close up shop amid a continued crypto winter, a Trump venture ditches its crypto plans, and the Clarity Act fails to reach a vote before August recess
- Mapping Trump’s crypto empire on Last Week Tonight 27 Jul 2026 A new Citation Needed data project maps the Trump family’s web of cryptocurrency ventures, which have been generating billions in income for the president.
- Issue 107 – An unserious offer 23 Jul 2026 The crypto industry has spent $200 million to get a bill too corrupt for Democrats to pass and a president too corrupt to sign anything that might meaningfully limit his grift.
- Trump’s $1.4 billion crypto disclosure 1 Jul 2026 The White House insists there’s no conflict of interest as Trump reports $1.4 billion in income from an industry he’s deregulated.
- Issue 106 – A tremendous birthday present 18 Jun 2026 The crypto industry spent the spring buying primaries, an octagon at the White House, and — they hope — a market-structure bill by the Fourth of July.
- Second Circuit rejects Sam Bankman-Fried’s appeal 12 Jun 2026 The Second Circuit upholds Bankman-Fried’s conviction and 25-year sentence, leaving few remaining options for the disgraced crypto executive
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- “WAGMI” — we're all gonna make it — was crypto's 2021 rallying cry. But those with wealth and power knew it was a lie, and that “all” just meant them. My latest piece traces the last five years, from hype to technoligarchy — and why they're not all gonna make it either. 7 Jan 2026
- next issue of Citation Needed will be out tomorrow, and thank you to everyone who didn’t unsubscribe when i dropped off the face of the planet into a COVID hole! (the joys of being a solo writer) 7 Jan 2026
- i love the beginning of the year because everyone starts blogging. and if you (yes you) were thinking about starting, this is your sign 6 Jan 2026
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- checking out the crypto gaming magazine’s 2026 “most anticipated” list to see how blockchain gaming has been going 4 Jan 2026
- when i first saw this video i thought it was ross ulbricht 1 Jan 2026
- dammit. turns out the cold i got for Christmas is actually COVID 😞 almost made it six years without getting it, too 1 Jan 2026
- grateful for the books that made 2025 a little less hard 1 Jan 2026
- please address any concerns about late newsletters to the office manager 31 Dec 2025
- did vitalik just invent communism? 31 Dec 2025
- out of context graphs from @VitalikButerin’s latest blog post 31 Dec 2025
- https://t.co/zIlFxqf9HQ @Papapishu speaking my language with this morning's bonus @Aftermath_site blog about split keyboards 30 Dec 2025
- though some searches reveal disturbing news of human remains found in a freezer in Tempe, Arizona, which is unrelated to standard appliance use but highlights extreme scenarios 29 Dec 2025
- the great cookieing of 2025 is complete! 550 cookies in 10 varieties 27 Dec 2025
- one of the best things about linzer cookies is that they come with built-in treats for the chef 23 Dec 2025
- planning baking for holiday cookie tins, asking questions like: if i make lemon curd x days in advance, i need to make y extra cups of it to still end up with ½ cup for cookies on the 24th. thank goodness i took multivariable calculus 21 Dec 2025
- has anyone else noticed that Trump seems to be getting younger and more uncanny with every crypto project illustration? (images ordered oldest to newest) 16 Dec 2025
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- Here’s a small sample of the letters from Democratic members of Congress I’ve covered since Trump took office. Most were ignored, but they laid the groundwork for what they need to do in January. #USpol #USpolitics 4 Nov 2026
- Crypto and AI super PACs spent $250 million on the midterms. In competitive races, their candidates got clobbered: nine losses out of 12 called so far, including Ohio, where crypto spent $64 million and still couldn’t beat Sherrod Brown. https://www.citationneeded.news/2026-election-results/ #crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #artificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #midterms 4 Nov 2026
- Results are coming in, and I’m tracking how crypto and AI super PACs’ bets are faring live on Tech Influence Watch: https://influence.citationneeded.news/2026/results I’ll thread the industries’ biggest wins and losses tonight below 🧵 #USpol #USpolitics #midterms 4 Nov 2026
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- got my coffee, got my snacks, ready to watch how crypto and AI’s $250 million campaign finance blitz turns out 4 Nov 2026
- it’s thoughtful to schedule Election Day during Discount Chocolate Week 3 Nov 2026
- Crypto- and AI-focused super PACs have poured nearly $250 million into this year’s elections. Tonight we find out what it bought. Here’s my guide to the races to watch, where the money went, and which results could embarrass the industry: https://www.citationneeded.news/2026-election-guide/ #crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #citationNeededNewsletter 3 Nov 2026
- Binance’s Changpeng Zhao threatening Elon Musk that he will nuke $1 billion in SpaceX shares (Remember it was CZ threatening to dump FTX’s FTT token that helped kick off FTX’s collapse) #Binance #ElonMusk 1 Nov 2026
- Binance hasn’t REcovered $6B+, it’s COVERING it (reimbursing customers from company funds). Some was frozen, but Binance is not likely to recover even half. Bad headlines like this are a big part of why I started covering crypto. Generalist reporters on deadline far too often end up repeating company spin. #crypto #cryptocurrency #journalism 1 Nov 2026
- RE: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/117541734004198498 Apparently my health insurance premium is going up 50% this year, so if you’d like to contribute to my employer-sponsored health plan: 1 Nov 2026 citationneeded.news
- The healthcare marketplace would like me, a self-employed person with no recorded disabilities who has never served in the military, to prove that I DON’T have insurance through an employer, the VA, or Medicare. Apparently I am meant to do this with things like a letter from my employer saying they don’t over me coverage?? “Dear me, I regret to inform us...” #healthcare 1 Nov 2026
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