@dawid@social.craftknight.comBitcoin has plunged more than 30 percent and Ether is down around 40 percent in recent months,
as gains from President Trump’s pro-crypto policies evaporated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/technology/cryptocurrencies-tu…
A US judge sentences Rui-Siang Lin, who pled guilty to operating the $105M dark web narcotics marketplace Incognito Market, to 30 years in US federal prison (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/02/04
The Planet Crafter is currently on sale on #Steam for about $12 and I've already put 13 hours into it and it's a *fantastic* survival crafter where you terraform an entire planet from Mars-like conditions all the way to Earth-like
I'm probably 10%? of the way into the content so far and it's still super engaging. Watching the atmosphere change color, clouds and rainfall appear, seeing life start to spread - it's so so rewarding
Plays well on CrossOver on macOS, *but* whatever they did for mouse logic on the game makes it fail to register clicks in CrossOver. Fortunately gaming controller support is present and excellent, so I've been using that.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1284190/The_Planet_Crafter/
Matthew Green gets into the nooks and crannies of what it means that WhatsApp employees can read your messages.
WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/02/02/whatsapp-encryptio…
Decentralized exchange Ostium raised a $20M Series A led by General Catalyst and Jump Trading, a source says at a ~$250M valuation, after previously raising $8M (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/03/ostium-series-a-fundraise-perpetuals-perps-cry…
Donald Trump has been accused of “corruption, plain and simple”
after it was revealed that a member of the Emirati royal family was behind a $500m investment into the Trump family’s cryptocurrency company.
Ethics experts say the deal
– struck just days before the US president’s inauguration last January
– amounts to a deep conflict of interest for the White House,
amid calls for a congressional investigation into the transaction.
Months after the deal, the…
@dawid@social.craftknight.comA look at WhatsApp's E2E encryption and whether it protects from metadata and chat backup leaks, after a lawsuit alleges Meta can read users' private data (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com…
Binance names co-founder Yi He as co-CEO alongside Richard Teng, making her one of the few women leading a crypto company; she also has children with ex-CEO CZ (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/03/binance-names-cofounder-yi-he-as-new-co-ceo/<…