Host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry from JPMorgan's new report on bitcoin's positioning to the latest update on Do Kwon’s South Korea extradition.
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"CoinDesk Daily" host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the biggest headlines impacting the crypto industry today, including a new report from JPMorgan that says bitcoin still looks overbought despite the recent sell-off. Plus, the latest on Do Kwon’s South Korea extradition and Frax’s singularity roadmap that aims to boost the TVL of its layer 2 to $100 billion.
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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “First Mover” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and Melissa Montañez and edited by Victor Chen.
Many of us have habits that calm us down in times of stress. Things we find deeply comforting, like sucking our thumb or biting our nails. We might not even be aware we’re doing them, but they play a fundamental role in helping us regulate our emotions.
Our question this week comes from CrowdScience listener and nail-biter, Ash. He wants to know where these habits come from. And since his pet dog is also a nail-biter: do we share these traits with other animals?
Recently, a video of a mouse cleaning up a man’s shed took the internet by storm. Was this a house-proud mouse, or was it the animal's way of making sense of a frenetic environment? An emerging field of scientists focusing on animal behaviour and emotions help us shed some light on such questions.
Along the way we meet a dog training specialist, learn what a sniffari is, go for playtime with a thumb-sucking otter, and visit an OCD clinic. We’ll also be getting tips on how to give your pets the best home environment, and meet an animal enrichment officer in South Africa, who knows how to spot the signs of an unhelpful habit developing.
Contributors:
Karolina Westlund, Ethologist, Stockholm University and ILLIS
Ben Terry, CBT Therapist, Priory Hospital North London
Karin Pienaar, Animal Behaviourist, COAPE International
Candice Ward, Animal Behaviourist, Johannesburg Zoo
Jaak Panksepp clip: The science of emotions: Jaak Panksepp at TEDxRainier
Producer: Robbie Wojciechowski
Presenter: Alex Lathbridge
Editor: Cathy Edwards
Production co-ordinator: Connor Morgans
Additional recording by Elna Schutz
(Photo: Portrait of border collie puppy biting a curtain. Credit: Rawlstock/Getty Images)
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:37) – Nuclear war
(12:21) – Launch procedure
(18:00) – Deterrence
(21:34) – Tactical nukes
(30:59) – Nuclear submarines
(33:59) – Nuclear missiles
(41:10) – Nuclear football
(50:17) – Missile interceptor system
(54:34) – North Korea
(1:01:10) – Nuclear war scenarios
(1:10:02) – Warmongers
(1:14:31) – President’s cognitive ability
(1:20:43) – Refusing orders
(1:28:41) – Russia and Putin
(1:33:48) – Cyberattack
(1:35:09) – Ground zero of nuclear war
(1:39:48) – Surviving nuclear war
(1:44:06) – Nuclear winter
(1:54:29) – Alien civilizations
(2:00:04) – Extrasensory perception
(2:13:50) – Area 51
(2:17:48) – UFOs and aliens
(2:28:15) – Roswell incident
(2:34:55) – CIA assassinations
(2:53:47) – Navalny
(2:56:12) – KGB
(3:02:48) – Hitler and the atomic bomb
(3:06:52) – War and human nature
(3:10:17) – Hope
Yonas Fikre , a US citizen, challenged his placement on the federal No Fly List and the feds removed him from the list. Did that moot the case? The Supreme Court says "no." Tommy Berry and Patrick Eddington explain why.
We go to a town in Eastern Ukraine that is close to the front lines and under constant fire. Russians are advancing in Eastern Ukraine as Ukrainian forces run low on ammunition and weapons.
By a vote of 286-134 over conservatives’ objections, the House passed a $1.2 trillion spending package late Friday morning avoiding a partial government shutdown.
Will House Speaker Mike Johnson be ousted from his position?
Former President Donald Trump may soon be a whole lot richer – roughly $3 billion richer.
Axios reports that Russia and China “vetoed a U.S. draft UN Security Council resolution that called for an ‘immediate and sustained ceasefire’ in Gaza along with ‘the release of all remaining hostages’ held by Hamas.”
The Information's Jessica Lessin and CNBC's Steve Kovach join us for a star studded Friday episode breaking down the week's news. Lessin is the CEO and founder of The Information and co-host of the More or Less podcast. Kovach is a technology correspondant at CNBC. We cover (with Lessin): 1) Rumors of GPT-5 being shown to founders, and what it might look like 2) Whether OpenAI is vulnerable now that model quality is converging 3) Satya Nadella's claims that Microsoft effectively controls all the value of OpenAI 4) Inflection leadership heads to Microsoft 5) Inflection investors are pissed 6) Why Inflection failed 7) Google and Apple's potential AI agreement 8) Would The Information use Google's new tool for newsrooms. And with Kovach: 9) Outline of the DOJ's case against Apple 10) How Apple is feeling about the case 11) Merits of the case 12) Shohei Ohtani's betting problems.
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Rural white voters wield outsized power in our democracy, yet they are also more likely to support violence as a political tool—and to hold antidemocratic views. Meanwhile, rural whites enjoy the perk of being seen as the "real" Americans. Waldman and Schaller join Tim Miller for the weekend pod.
Jason Jones, founder and president of the Vulnerable People Project and host of "The Jason Jones Show," joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to break down "The Great Reset" and explain how it affects crises at home and abroad.
You can find Jones' new book, The Great Campaign Against the Great Reset, here.
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Carlos Domingo, founder and CEO of Securitize, gives the scoop on why Blackrock’s new fund had to launch early and has a suggestion for how to handle dustings of Tornado Cash ETH.
On Wednesday, BlackRock, the world's leading asset management firm, announced the launch of a tokenized investment fund, the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity (BUIDL) Fund, developed in collaboration with Securitize.
Carlos Domingo, founder and CEO of Securitize, discusses the launch of the fund, which is native to the public Ethereum blockchain and aims to bring an institutional-grade cash management product to crypto institutions, offering faster token issuance, redemption, and transferability.
He also talks about how Blackrock has embraced crypto, how the launch of the fund was “front run” by crypto Twitter, and how Blackrock will deal with issues such as the fund being dusted with ETH tainted by sanctioned Tornado Cash ETH.
Show highlights:
What the BUIDL fund is, its essence and objectives
How the fund rewards its users, with a system similar to crypto airdrops
Whether they were worried about the regulatory aspects of bringing this product on-chain.
Securitize's role in the partnership with BlackRock
How much money flowed into the fund on the first day and who the target investor is
Why BlackRock decided to build this product on Ethereum
What BlackRock's attitude towards crypto is, according to Carlos
How the launch of the fund was front-run by crypto insiders
How a wallet associated with the fund received unintended funds from North Korean tied wallets and whether Ethereum should implement a mechanism for addresses to approve funds that are sent to it
Whether the contract is secure and what steps Securitize is taking to increase the safety of the users
The roadmap for the partnership between BlackRock and Securitize
Unchained Podcast is Produced by Laura Shin Media, LLC. Distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Michele Musso and Executive Producer is Jared Schwartz.
