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The US Senate confirms FDIC acting chairman Travis Hill to lead the agency, which regulates stablecoin issuers and impacts how the crypto industry is banked (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/12/11/s…

Two Trump Appointees Confirmed to Take Over Core Crypto Regulators CFTC, FDIC
In a package of confirmations, the U.S. Senate approved Mike Selig to lead the CFTC and Travis Hill to run the FDIC, both with major potential reach into crypto.

Transform Mozilla from a company to a democratically run collective and see how long management will still be overpaid and hires rentier capitalists.
https://social.cryptography.dog/@ansuz/115746707589261530

"Wintermute reported that the median crypto token price drop was around 54%, and more than 90% of tokens lost more than 10% of their value"
#Crypto is and always was a hungry scam that eats suckers. Don't be a sucker. Don't touch crypto.

Anatomy of a crypto meltdown
October 2025 brought the most dramatic crypto flash crash of all time, but it was only a dress rehearsal for the systemic crisis the industry is building toward.

I very much enjoyed the first third of the book "Crafting Interpreters". It's about building a tree-walk interpreter for Lox, a programming language specifically created for this book. The interpreter in the book is implemented in Java. I, of course, used Kotlin for my implementation.
https://craftinginterpreters.com/

I very much enjoyed the first third of the book "Crafting Interpreters". It's about building a tree-walk interpreter for Lox, a programming language specifically created for this book. The interpreter in the book is implemented in Java. I, of course, used Kotlin for my implementation.
https://craftinginterpreters.com/

Reminder: Crypto Is a Trump Trade (Paul Krugman)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/reminder-crypto-is-a-trump-trade
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p70#a251119p70

Crypto exchange Kraken says it confidentially filed for a US IPO, without revealing any terms; Kraken said it raised $200M at a $20B valuation on November 18 (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/crypto-exchange-kraken-…

"As trading activity spiked on [#Crypto] exchanges and prices whipsawed, multiple centralized platforms suffered glitches. Binance’s site went completely down at one point, and customers reported unexplained account freezes, unsuccessful trades, and automated protections like stop-losses failing to trigger"
Again, of course. People build crypto exchanges because they want to get ric…

Anatomy of a crypto meltdown
October 2025 brought the most dramatic crypto flash crash of all time, but it was only a dress rehearsal for the systemic crisis the industry is building toward.

Investigation: $28B in crypto tied to illicit activity flowed into crypto exchanges like Binance over the last two years, as President Trump embraces crypto (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technology/crypto-exchanges-dirty-money.html

The Crypto Industry’s $28 Billion in ‘Dirty Money’
As President Trump has championed crypto and the industry has gone mainstream, funds from scammers and other criminal groups have flowed onto major crypto exchanges.

North Korean hackers stole a record $2.02B in crypto in 2025, a 51% YoY rise that takes its cumulative stolen total to $6.75B; individual wallet hacks hit 158K (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/crypto-hacking-stolen-funds-2026/

2025 Crypto Theft Reaches $3.4 Billion
North Korean hackers stole $2.02 billion in cryptocurrency in 2025, a 51% year-over-year increase, pushing their all-time total to $6.75 billion.