Today, we have on Alex Thompson, co-author of the new book “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, It’s Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again” and all the reasons Joe Biden decided to run for President in 2024, what happened on that debate stage, how a small group of aides working for Joe and Jill Biden kept everyone in line, or, more commonly, walled off from the President, and how it all fell apart. This is a juicy episode and we all recommend you read the book and Tyler’s essay on it.
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Industry experts including Andy Baehr, Anthony Scaramucci, Jonathan (Jono) Steinberg and Pascal St-Jean joined James Seyffart on stage at Consensus 2025 for a deep dive into the evolving landscape of institutional investment in the cryptocurrency space.
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The media efforts to make Americans oppose Trump's anti-illegal efforts are running straight into the buzzsaw of common sense. So too with efforts to portray the distribution of food aid in Gaza. Give a listen.
The 3,300-member Chinook Tribe in Washington State just scrapped their support of legislation for federal recognition tribal leaders had been working on for more than two years. The rejection comes after the key author of the bill added a series of onerous conditions at the last minute. A handful of other tribes around the country are working through the long, complicated process to secure recognition. Meanwhile, efforts to follow through on President Donald Trump’s promise of federal recognition for the Lumbee Tribe is encountering criticism from other tribes who say the process ignores important considerations that most other tribes have to contend with. We’ll get status updates on tribes awaiting federal recognition.
Bitcoin 2025 — billed as the world's largest event dedicated to the digital currency — kicked off this week in Las Vegas. Among the speakers: Vice President JD Vance and the White House's AI and Crypto Czar, David Sacks. their attendance marks another clear signal of the administration's growing embrace of cryptocurrency. Plus: What happened to corporate pledges made five years ago to help historically Black colleges and universities? We look into how some of those commitments have held up.
Caleb O. Brown hosted the Cato Daily Podcast for nearly 18 years, producing well over 4000 episodes. He has gone on to head Kentucky’s Bluegrass Institute. This is one among the best episodes produced in his tenure, selected by the host and listeners.
“Fusionism,” something of an ideological nonaggression pact between libertarians and conservatives, has fallen on hard times. Can it be reborn? Stephanie Slade of Reason discusses her new article on the subject.
President Trump escalates his fight against Harvard University. The manhunt continues for a former Arkansas police chief who escaped from prison. SpaceX Starship breaks apart upon re-entry during test launch. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
Medicaid accounts for about 56% of the funds Cook County Health uses to treat patients.
Experts warn the cuts that House Republicans are advancing could have a serious impact on people’s health, on emergency rooms and that they could force Cook County to cut staff or reduce staff hours.
For more about these potential impacts and how providers are bracing, Reset talks with Kristen Schorsch, WBEZ Cook County and public health reporter, and Dr. Mark Loafman, chair of family and community medicine at Cook County Health.
PortlandHODL reveals how "poison blocks" can paralyze Bitcoin nodes for hours, creating profitable attack vectors for malicious miners while the network relies on policy filters for protection.
PortlandHODL explains Bitcoin's most dangerous vulnerability: poison blocks. These malicious blocks can freeze nodes for 11+ hours on Raspberry Pi devices and 25 minutes on enterprise hardware, creating profitable attack opportunities for miners while exposing how relay policy acts as an accidental guardian of the network.
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Notes:
• Poison Blocks (denial of service)
• Raspberry Pi validation: 11 hours for poison blocks
• Enterprise hardware: 25 minutes validation time
• Attack gives 20% effective hash rate boost
• Fix exists in Great Consensus Cleanup
• Bitcoin fees currently under $1
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
00:53 Real threats to Bitcoin
04:55 How is block made?
11:46 Nodes & DOS blocks
20:03 Making DOS blocks
29:33 Arch Network
30:05 Miners & DOS blocks
36:46 Attack response time
40:47 Fixing the problem
43:25 Why not fixed yet?
54:12 Client diversity
1:01:11 Other good soft forks
1:05:12 Are you worried?
1:10:03 "Deep Thoughts" by Portland HODL
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