Month: May 2024

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ATXplained - Where have Austin’s Indigenous people gone? (archive episode)

We spend a lot of time in Austin talking about how many new people move here. But most of us don’t talk much about the people who came before us — way before us. 

If you’ve ever taken a walk along Shoal Creek or gone to Barton Springs on a hot summer day, you’re doing something that people have done here for thousands of years. Because all of this was actually once — and in some ways still is — Indigenous land.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Is the Bull Market Over? And Why Stablecoins Aren’t Hitting Centralized Exchanges?

The latest price moves and insights with Jenn Sanasie and Co-Founder and CEO at Nansen, Alex Svanevik.

To get the show every day, follow the podcast here.

Alex Svanevik, Co-Founder and CEO at Nansen, joins "Markets Daily," to discuss the potential impact of interest rates, stablecoin issuance, and on-chain activity on the market. 

Takeaways | 

  • The bull market in crypto may experience some choppiness in the coming weeks or months, but it is not over.
  • Stablecoin issuance is high, but there is a mixed picture in terms of their use on centralized exchanges.
  • The upcoming Eigenlayer airdrop and the future of layer twos in the crypto ecosystem as (L2s) are gaining traction and may surpass Ethereum L1 in terms of bringing on new users.
  • The crypto ecosystem is seeing an explosion of L2s and may eventually experience consolidation.
  • Tokenized treasuries are an emerging trend in the crypto space, with the potential for more types of real-world assets to be traded on-chain.

Chapters | 

00:00 Introduction and Market Update

01:15 The Current State of the Crypto Markets

09:41 The Future of Layer Twos

12:42 Tokenized Treasuries as Real-World Assets

LINKS | 

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Register now at consensus.coindesk.com.

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Jenn Sanasie hosted this episode of "Markets Daily," which is produced and edited by senior producer Michele Musso and executive producer Jared Schwartz, along with Senior Booker Melissa Montañez. The original music is by Doc Blust and Colin Mealey. Show notes were assisted by an AI platform.

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Inside Europe - Inside Europe 2 May 2024

The Gaza flotilla activists stranded in Turkey, why Scotland's Humza Yousaf quit while Spain's Pedro Sanchez stays and media activists call for the right to information. Also: EU election season is now underway, why EU enlargement states have veered to the far right, the end for Slovakia's public broadcaster, Venice's pay-to-get-in rule and Denmark cashes in on Sweden’s Eurovision limelight.
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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Trump Makes His Move

Donald Trump is solidifying his case against Joe Biden, and it's eerily similar to Joe Biden's case against Donald Trump in 2020—there's chaos everywhere and the president is responsible. Polling suggests Trump has the better of the argument, especially since Democrats are split even on as basic an issue as opposing anti-Semitism. Give a listen.

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Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova - Coming Soon… Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova

Launching on May 16, Risky Business is a weekly podcast about making better decisions. The hosts, Maria Konnikova and Nate Silver, are both journalists who moonlight as high-stakes poker players. On Risky Business, they bring their analytical framework to everything from politics to poker to personal decisions.

Maria has a PhD in psychology and is the author of several books including, most recently, The Biggest Bluff. While researching the book, she inadvertently became a professional poker player, with over $500,000 in tournament winnings. She is a PokerStars Team Pro.

Nate is the founder and former editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, and one of the country’s leading election forecasters. He has over $800,000 in lifetime poker tournament winnings and his forthcoming book, On the Edge, is about gambling and risk.

Risky Business is a co-production of iHeart Media and Pushkin Industries.

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Federalist Radio Hour - Is Healthy Social Media Possible?

John Matze, founder and former CEO of Parler and current CEO of Hedgehog, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to diagnose the problems plaguing social media apps and analyze what it means to be a free-speech platform.

If you care about combatting the corrupt media that continue to inflict devastating damage, please give a gift to help The Federalist do the real journalism America needs.
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - World Press Freedom Day

Last year, Calumet City cited a Daily Southtown reporter for seeking comment from public employees. That’s one out of at least 165 incidents that interfered with journalists seeking and conveying information to the public last year, according to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. But many violations of press freedom go unreported or under the radar. To mark World Press Freedom Day this week, Reset checked in with Seth Stern, director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation, to learn more. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.