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College alum surprised that his ayahuasca-inspired speech praising bitcoin got groans and boos

Pan said on LinkedIn he'd gotten "some help from AI (Ayahuasca Intelligence)" to write the speech, which featured meditation and singing.

Bountysource Stole at Least $17,000 from Open Source Developers

This is why people say the open source ecosystem sucks.

A Hong Kong-based crypto exchange used deepfakes of Elon Musk to claim the billionaire was its lead developer

Authorities in Hong Kong put out a warning that a group claiming Elon Musk developed its crypto-trading software is likely using deepfakes.

Why there will never be another Bitcoin

On October 31, 2008, an unknown coder named Satoshi Nakamoto published a paper that laid the foundation for an entirely new monetary system – 15 years later, the world is only just catching on to its true value and potential.

To make sure grandmas like his don't get conned, he scams the scammers

Livestreamers who bait scammers find creative ways to waste their time. This makes for entertaining viewing. But as scams spike, one streamer, Kitboga, wants to protect as many victims as possible.

FTX says it will return money to most of its customers

FTX says that nearly all of its customers will receive the money back that they are owed, two years after the cryptocurrency exchange imploded, and some will get more than that.

Enough With Saving the Honeybees

For years, people have understood them to be at imminent risk of extinction, despite evidence to the contrary. Why?

Billions of public Discord messages may be sold through a scraping service

Cross-server tracking suggests a new understanding of "public" chat servers.

Class Consciousness for Billionaires

Benjamin Wallace-Wells reviews “As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West,” by Guido Alfani.