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| Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
Luna Foundation Guard says its bitcoin reserves have depleted from ~80K to ~300 and the remaining UST and LUNA tokens will be used to compensate investors — The announcement comes after reports that over a billion dollars of Terra's bitcoin reserves are unaccounted for.
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| Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: |
The knock-on effects of the TerraUSD and LUNA collapse will be felt across the crypto industry and could chill VCs' enthusiasm for investing in crypto startups — This week's undoing of the TerraUSD algorithmic stablecoin and its sister token Luna has ramifications for all of crypto.
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| New York Times: |
Live broadcasts and shared videos of mass shootings again raise questions about social networks' responsibilities in curbing violent and hateful content — Gunmen say they are influenced by online screeds and broadcasts of past shootings. Do social media sites have a responsibility to rein in hateful and violent content?
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Uber Eats to launch two autonomous delivery pilots in Los Angeles with robotic sidewalk delivery startup Serve Robotics and autonomous tech startup Motional — Uber Eats is launching two autonomous delivery pilots in Los Angeles on Monday with Serve Robotics, a robotic sidewalk delivery startup …
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| Joshua Oliver / Financial Times: |
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says bitcoin has no future as a payments network because of its inefficiency and high environmental costs — Bankman-Fried criticises biggest digital asset over inefficiency and high environmental costs — Bitcoin has no future as a payments network …
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Tweets: @sbf_ftx, @wublockchain, @zeroshorts, @carnage4life, @saylor, @mayazi, @jack, @dwallacewells, @allenf32, @smtuffy, and @lopp
| Joshua Oliver / Financial Times: |
| Ryan Weeks / The Block: |
Elwood Technologies, a crypto-focused market access and trading service for institutional investors, raises a $70M Series A led by Goldman and Dawn Capital — Quick Take — Goldman Sachs, Barclays and CommerzVentures invested in the Series A round alongside venture capital firms.| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
DWAC SEC filing details Donald Trump's commitments to Truth Social, including posting there first and waiting six hours before posting to Twitter or elsewhere — - Donald Trump plans to partially restrict himself on social media like Twitter, according to an SEC filing from the blank check company taking the former president's public.
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SEC. Tweets: @ivanthek, @ivanthek, @matt_levine, @matt_levine, @erictheumpire, @wendysiegelman, @mattgoldstein26, @mattgoldstein26, @wendysiegelman, and @matt_levine
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Israel-based Optibus, which develops SaaS tools to optimize public transport using AI, raises a $100M Series D from Insight and others at a $1.3B valuation — Mass transit has made a rebound with the return of city life post-Covid 19, and today a startup that's building tech to help it run …
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| Caitlin Harrington / Wired: |
A look at the Apple Together solidarity movement that emerged from #AppleToo to provide support for Apple employees organizing in retail, AppleCare, and more — A solidarity movement called Apple Together has provided tools and support as the company's retail employees organize.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Akuity, which provides app delivery tools for Kubernetes, raises a $20M Series A co-led by Lead Edge Capital and Decibel Partners — Akuity, a provider of app delivery software for Kubernetes, today announced that it closed a $20 million series A funding round led by Lead Edge Capital and Decibel Partners …
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| Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: |
Spotify confirms it is running a test that lets select artists use NFTs on their profiles — Artists can already promote merch and tickets on their Spotify profiles. Now the streaming service is testing a feature that will let them also promote their NFTs.| Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post: |
US DOJ launches its first criminal prosecution against an American citizen involving the alleged use of $10M in bitcoin to evade US economic sanctions — Federal judge finds U.S. sanctions laws apply to $10 million in Bitcoin sent by American citizen to a country blacklisted by Washington
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