South Sudan’s unity government, led by President Salva Kiir with former rebel leader, Riek Machar as First Vice President, is facing mounting tensions, and clashes between forces allied to the president and first vice president are threatening a fragile power-sharing agreement. Could the young nation be heading towards a new civil war?
For the first time in 17 years, Libya is calling on foreign companies to explore oil in its territory. But will investors be forthcoming?
And why South Africa's apartheid reparations fund remains largely unspent, 30 years after it was set up to compensate victims of gross human rights violations.
Presenter: Charles Gitonga
Technical Producer: Craig Kingham
Producers: Sunita Nahar in London. Frenny Jowi in Nairobi and Blessing Aderogba in Lagos
Senior Journalist: Patricia Whitehorne
Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi
Host Christine Lee breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry from the U.S. inflation forecast to the reintroduction of Senator Lummis' BITCOIN Act.
U.S. inflation report expectations and the reintroduction of Senator Cynthia Lummis' BITCOIN Act are giving BTC a boost Wednesday. Plus, the U.S. House overturns an IRS broker rule on DeFi and the U.S. SEC delays XRP, DOGE, LITE ETFs. CoinDesk's Christine Lee hosts "CoinDesk Daily."
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Friends, DeFi is having a moment — Uniswap Labs' web app and wallet connect you to the excitement. Swapping and bridging are simple, low cost, and lightning fast across 13 chains, including Base, Arbitrum and Unichain, the new Layer 2 network designed for DeFi.
Thanks to deep liquidity on Uniswap Protocols, you get minimal price impact on every trade, now with even greater efficiency through Uniswap v4.
Swap, send, on-ramp, off-ramp, and bridge into a bright future — get started at uniswap.org.
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This episode was hosted by Christine Lee. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Christine Lee and edited by Victor Chen.
Today's podcast is an effort to help me find my bearings in a world in which Ukraine agrees to a cease-fire, RFK Jr. is doing an ad for Steak'n'Shake, Donald Trump is selling Teslas on the White House lawn, and Democrats are siding with a terror-supporting activist. Give a listen.
Janusz is meeting Solana degens where they’re at by building a product that helps them stack bitcoin during their regular Solana use. “Lemon Drop” is the first product release in Janusz’s recent Bitcoin pivot and builds towards his bigger goal: increasing Bitcoin privacy through increasing Bitcoin’s anonymity set. Also: activating a Bitcoin soft fork?
Notes:
• How Lemon Drop works
• Privacy on Bitcoin
• Open Source vs Product focused development
• A soft fork activation?
Check out our Bitcoin scaling conference! Visit opnext.dev to learn more.
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:02 Anon payments
03:17 Pivot on Layers project
05:39 Lemondrop
10:13 Inspiration
12:45 Arch Network
13:17 Building the team
16:52 Wrapped BTC
20:36 Bitcoin Layers project
25:51 Soft fork activation client
32:26 Advocating for specific covenants
37:11 Privacy projects
42:43 Privacy adoption
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Insights with Jennifer Sanasie and former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Patrick McHenry.
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Former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Patrick McHenry joins CoinDesk to discuss the significance of a market structure bill for digital assets. Plus, the latest updates on his new roles at Ondo Finance and a16z.
This content should not be construed or relied upon as investment advice. It is for entertainment and general information purposes.
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Friends, DeFi is having a moment — Uniswap Labs' web app and wallet connect you to the excitement. Swapping and bridging are simple, low cost, and lightning fast across 13 chains, including Base, Arbitrum and Unichain, the new Layer 2 network designed for DeFi.
Thanks to deep liquidity on Uniswap Protocols, you get minimal price impact on every trade, now with even greater efficiency through Uniswap v4.
Swap, send, on-ramp, off-ramp, and bridge into a bright future — get started at uniswap.org.
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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “Markets Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.
On February 25, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued their 7-2 opinion in Lackey v. Stinnie. The Court held that a party that receives a preliminary injunction but does not obtain a final judgment on the merits before a case becomes moot is not a "prevailing party" eligible for attorney's fees under 42 U.S.C. §1988(b)
Please join us in discussing the decision and its future implications.
Featuring: William Maurer, Managing Attorney of the Washington Office, Institute for Justice
The death of a 14-year-old San Carlos Apache girl is spurring questions nationally about what could have been done to prevent the tragedy. Emily Pike’s remains were found three weeks after she went missing from a Mesa, Ariz. group home. A candlelight vigil over the weekend honored her memory. At least one other community event is scheduled. Her death also comes after authorities identified the remains found at a Winnipeg landfill as one of the women suspected to be a victim of a serial killer. We’ll hear about both cases in context of pressure to improve the outcomes for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.
New tariffs take hold. Jobs slashed at the Department of Education. Mission to retrieve two overdue astronauts. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has those stories and more on the World News Roundup podcast.
When a prisoner accuses a prison official of sexual abuse, what do courts owe him? In Perttu v. Richards, the Supreme Court will weigh in. Cato's Mike Fox comments.
It’s been five years since cities around the country like Chicago shut down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, millions of people have been affected. Whether it’s coming down with the virus, losing a loved one during the pandemic or living with the consequences of infection, also known as long COVID.
To find out more about what we do and do not know about the chronic condition, we turned to Dr. Jerry Krishnan, a professor of medicine and public health at the University of Illinois Chicago, and Amy Pope, and long COVID patient and patient researcher. We also checked in with Mike Bielaczyc, a licensed clinical social worker and long-hauler support group leader at Northwestern University, and Chimére L. Sweeney, a long COVID patient consultant.
For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
