For millions of people across the planet, fertility treatments make families possible. Each year in the US alone, procedures like IVF allow thousands of children a chance at life -- so long as everything is conducted in an ethical manner. However, as Ben, Matt and Noel dive into the dark side of this multimillion dollar industry, they discover these treatments can also result in some deeply disturbing crimes and conspiracies. Tune in to learn more about fertility fraud.
The death of OJ Simpson this week prompts us to discuss everything that changed in the wake of the murders he committed, the escape he bungled, and the trial at which he was acquitted. Also, what are we to make of the chatter about Iran striking Israel imminently? Give a listen.
Politicians are taking aim at mining pools, but pool operators aren't making it any easier by allowing for various transaction types on-chain. All this and more in this week’s mining news roundup!
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Matt, Charlie and Will discuss Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news, from Bitmain’s large US operations to Ordinals marketcap projections to mining pools playing games with new transaction types. Senator Elizabeth Warren might even drop by!
Chapter Markers:
00:00:00 Start
00:01:54 Intro & Bitcoin Halving
00:03:27 Difficulty Adjustment
00:05:01 Bitmain & BitFuFu
00:07:08 New US ASIC Maker
00:10:07 Promising or Flop?
00:11:15 Ordinals Corner
00:15:31 Ordinals Hype Chart
00:18:33 Ordinals vs. ETH NFTs
00:20:15 Ordinals & Block Space
00:23:45 Ordinals: JPEGs for BTC?
00:26:16 Mining Fees & Ordinals
00:28:41 Bitcoin Pool Revenues
00:31:17 Pool Decentralization
00:33:20 Sen. Warren on Crypto
00:37:15 Wrapping Up
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Bracing for possible Iranian attack against Israel. Pennsylvania flooding. Former Ohtani interpreter in court for alleged $16 million theft. CBS News Correspondent Deborah Rodriguez has today's World News Roundup.
Live from Dallas with special guest Dustin Bates of Starset; Eclipse Science; News Items: AI Designed Drugs, AI Music, Music Getting Simpler, Aphantasia Spectrum, Nova and Comet Compete with Eclipse; Science or Fiction
Life wasn’t always easy for poet Nikki Pitan, who grew up with domestic violence, and fatphobia affecting her self esteem in her far South Side home. She tells Reset about how her new memoir outlines her lifelong journey of healing and breaking those generational cycles.
For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
CoinDesk Indices presents notable data insights from the week, followed by additional analysis from an industry expert.
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The CoinDesk Market Index (CMI) functions as a benchmark for the performance of the digital asset market, delivering institutional quality information to digital asset investors. Subsets of the CoinDesk Market Index (CMI) are investible CoinDesk Crypto Sectors and the CoinDesk 20 Index, designed to measure the performance of the top digital assets. Today’s takeaways are provided by Tracy Stephens, senior index manager at CoinDesk Indices with additional analysis from Alexandra Weck, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Amina Bank. For more on CoinDesk Indices, visit: coindeskmarkets.com.
We look back at the complicated life and legacy O.J. Simpson leaves behind after he died yesterday from cancer. More than two years into its full scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia's war of attrition in Ukraine appears to be succeeding in ways its military superiority has not. And the Justice Department charges baseball star Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter with $16 million of bank fraud.
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Today's episode of Up First was edited by James Hider, Nick Spicer, Rose Friedman, Ravenna Koenig, Lisa Thomson and Ben Adler. It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Ben Abrams and Nina Kravinsky. We get engineering support from Stacey Abbott, and our technical director is Zac Coleman.
