Month: May 2025

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BITCOIN SEASON 2: Bitcoin OP_RETURN War Explained

Bitcoin developers are clashing over relaxing OP_RETURN limits. This technical debate about arbitrary data on Bitcoin has sparked divisions about what constitutes "spam" and revealed tensions between Bitcoin Core devs and those seeking a "purer" Bitcoin experience.


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What started as a technical proposal has exploded into community division, with accusations of "destroying Bitcoin" flying around. The hosts break down what OP_RETURN is, why some devs want to increase its size limit, and why others view it as enabling "spam" on the blockchain. At its core, this fight reveals deeper tensions about who controls Bitcoin's future and what the network should be used for.


Notes:

- OP_RETURN limit currently set at 83 bytes

- Proposal would increase limit to ~1 megabyte

- 30-45% of Bitcoin transactions are "non-financial"

- Bitcoin Knots node usage has grown to 7-8%

- Out-of-band transactions bypass node relay

- Core devs facing diminished community trust


Timestamps:

00:00:00:00 Start

00:00:36:16 Why's everyone so mad?

00:02:04:14 Claim your bias

00:04:00:03 The backstory

00:08:27:09 Changing the OP_RETRUN limit

00:11:24:06 Post to relax the limit

00:15:39:23 Out of Band payment

00:17:39:06 Standard vs valid consensus

00:19:52:29 What is spam?

00:28:41:05 Arch Network

00:29:13:14 Cons of increasing the limit

00:32:34:25 That's too "woke" bro!

00:35:56:27 Knots

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WSJ What’s News - What’s News in Markets: Disney Shines, Cleveland-Cliffs Slides, Boeing Climbs

Why did Disney’s Middle East expansion wow investors? And how is steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs slowing down its operations? Plus, how did Boeing benefit from the U.S.-U.K. trade agreement? Host Francesca Fontana discusses the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them.

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Honestly with Bari Weiss - Meet Casey Means, Trump’s Pick for Surgeon General

There’s an endearing saying that the U.S. surgeon general’s primary role is to be the nation’s family doctor. They represent America’s medical community, educate the public on current health risks, and wield tremendous influence over medical and scientific information.


On Thursday, President Trump nominated Dr. Casey Means to take on this important role.


Casey’s background is unique. After attending Stanford Medical School, she dropped out of her residency program in her ninth year, when she realized the course wasn’t addressing the root causes of illness.


Since then, she, along with her brother Calley Means, co-founded Levels, a company focused on glucose monitoring, and the pair co-authored Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health.


In recent years, she has been a leading figure in the Make America Healthy Again movement, speaking out against pharmaceutical, food, and chemical companies, and advocating for “root cause” medicine.


We had Casey on Honestly back in 2022, and today, we’re replaying that episode so you can better understand who Casey Means is, what she believes, how we got so sick, and how she wants to tackle chronic illness.


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Everything Everywhere Daily - Dubrovnik

Located on the Adriatic Sea in the southernmost part of Croatia is the city of Dubrovnik. 

Founded in the 7th century, it rose in prominence and became one of the leading city-states in Europe. 

It was a major competitor with Venice in the region and had complicated relations with both the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires. 

It was the site of one of the most brutal sieges in post-WWII Europe, and today it has become one of the top tourist destinations in the world.

Learn more about Dubrovnik and its long, complicated history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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NBN Book of the Day - Globalization’s Backlash: Echoes of the Interwar Era in Today’s World

This week on International Horizons, RBI Director John Torpey interviews historian Tara Zahra, author of Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars (W.W. Norton, 2023). Zahra reflects on the historical parallels between the current backlash against globalization and the anti-globalist movements of the interwar period. She highlights how economic insecurity, the rise of mass politics, and anxieties over immigration and trade shaped political reactions in both eras, while noting key differences—such as the role of environmentalism today and the absence of a world war in recent memory. Zahra also discusses the collapse of the international economic system in the 1930s, the ideological diversity of anti-globalist movements, and the legacy of Bretton Woods. She proposes that revisiting elements of the post-WWII international order, including regional cooperation and economic stabilization, may offer insight into managing today’s fractured global landscape.

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New Books in Native American Studies - William Jennings, “Dibia’s World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation” (Liverpool UP, 2023)

In the latest episode of Unlocking Academia, Tarin Ahmed, the host, is joined by guest, William Jennings, a senior lecturer in French at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, and author of Dibia's World.: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation (Liverpool UP, 2023). William discusses the importance of names, voice and the community life of a hundred slaves on an early sugar plantation.

Dibia's World follows the story of Dibia, an educated man in Africa, stolen across the sea and sold into slavery. He spent the rest of his life on a sugar plantation, where he worked with Agoüya, drank Aboré's rum, married Izabelle and had a son named Paul. This book tells the story of the community he lived in with a hundred others in a colonial outpost of the Caribbean. It depicts the everyday life of enslaved Africans and Native Americans in remarkable detail, showing their names, relationships, skills, health and interactions, as they contended with and resisted their enslavement. Most studies of plantation life examine well-established colonies in the century before abolition. 

This work provides a counterpoint by depicting the founding population of an African-American community in the early years of the industrial sugar plantation complex. Drawing on a planter's manuscript, shipping records, missionary accounts and seventeenth-century scraps of paper, Dibia's World will appeal to specialists as well as general readers interested in the early Atlantic world, Creole societies, slavery and African-American history.

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The NewsWorthy - Special Edition: New Pope, New Direction? What This Choice Means for the World

History has been made at the Vatican – a closed-door conclave of cardinals chose the first American pope. Today, we’re taking you inside the secretive process of choosing the Catholic Church’s leader with insights from a theology expert. Plus, we’re discussing the meaning behind this moment and what to expect as Pope Leo XIV takes on one of the most powerful roles in religion and world affairs.

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