Host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the news in the crypto industry from the rulings of SEC's lawsuit against Kraken to PYUSD reaching $1 billion market cap.
"CoinDesk Daily" host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the biggest headlines in the crypto industry today, as a California judge ruled that the SEC's lawsuit against Kraken will proceed to trial. Plus, Celsius' bankruptcy administrator paid out over $2.5 billion to creditors, and PayPal's stablecoin, PYUSD surpassed $1 billion in market cap.
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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and Melissa Montañez and edited by Victor Chen.
In a rare move, Burkina Faso’s military-led government has acknowledged that a deadly attack has taken place in which at least 200 security officers and villagers were killed. Some reports say it could be one of the worst ever in the country. So who was behind the attack and why is the military government unable to contain the violence?
Zambia faces a maize contamination crisis as aflatoxins – produced by certain mould and fungi - kill dozens of dogs, sparking health concerns. How can communities keep their food safe?
And what sparked the massive fallout at at the top of South Africa's opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) that has led to the departure and defection of the party’s deputy leader.
Presenter: Charles Gitonga
Producers: Bella Hassan and Yvette Twagiramariya in London. Susan Gachuhi in Nairobi
Technical Producer: Jonny Hall
Senior Producer: Patricia Whitehorne
Editors: Alice Muthengi and Andre Lombard
Dangerous heat gripping the Midwest moves east. Biden immigration order blocked. Trying to revive the Trump documents case. CBS News Correspondent Cami McCormick has today's World News Roundup.
Welcome back to the show! We’re sitting down with film maker and documentarian Alana Mediavilla to discuss her new film “Dirty Coin,” which premiered on the Bitcoin Halving this year and will go to market in late 2024! In this sit-down interview at Bitcoin Nashville, we discuss film work in Bitcoin, various locations filmed and the stories behind them and how Bitcoin mining is the “hands and feet” of Bitcoin compared to the ‘Number Go Up’ strategy most people consider.
If you enjoyed the show, keep an eye out for Dirty Coin at a theater near you and follow the social accounts at @DirtyCoinDoc and @AlanaMediavilla!
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:35 Starting Dirty Coin
04:01 Background
12:17 Funding
14:23 Screening
14:47 Bitcoin Film festival;
15:57 Reception of the film
16:42 Made for no-coiners
18:11 CLIP: Monetizing Waste
24:21 CLIP: Seneca Lake
29:26 CLIP: History of the Electrical Grid
36:18 The goal of the movie
42:59 Final thoughts
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Arguments over food prices are central to efforts to halt a 25 billion dollar grocery store merger. A rare and deadly mosquito borne illness has public parks in Massachusetts shut down at dusk. The Israel-Lebanon border is calm for now and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues.
Since the invasion of Ukraine, the West has deployed massive economic restrictions on Russian trade. So why is Russia’s economy growing? A survivor’s story from the forgotten conflict in Sudan (10:47). And Turkey tries to rid its streets of stray dogs (17:56).
We're telling you how the presidential candidates are now pitching themselves to servicemembers and veterans, and why the presidential debate next month is now in question.
Also, a recent arrest is reigniting the debate over free speech on social media.
Plus, how tech giants are now looking underground for new energy solutions, what record-breaking gift was given to America's national parks, and how one MLB catcher played for both teams in the same game.
Those stories and more news to know in about 10 minutes!
It has been six weeks since the attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the American public’s questions about the nature of the attack and the security failings that led to Trump’s brush with death largely go unanswered.
Jason Chaffetz, a Fox News contributor and former Utah Congressman who once chaired the House Oversight Committee, joined The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss the apparent security failures and ongoing investigations into what transpired in Butler on July 13.
“I thought the extraction was very slow. I thought it was fairly pathetic,” Chaffetz told The Daily Signal. “It’s been illuminated more now that even though he was the Republican nominee, even though he was the former president, he wasn’t getting the full protective detail that a sitting president would get. And I have a problem with that.”
Chaffetz believes the failures are structural. Poor recruitment and training, as well as heavy workloads create a perfect storm for the kinds of security lapses witnessed on July 13 in Butler, Chaffetz suggested. These problems have long plagued the Secret Service. When Chaffetz chaired the House Oversight Committee, he conducted the largest investigation into the Secret Service’s operations in American history. The investigation resulted in a more than 400 page report titled, “United States Secret Service: An Agency in Crisis.”
The former Utah Congressman remains “skeptical” that the current investigations in Congress will yield the policy changes necessary to improve the Secret Service without Congress using the power of the purse to “hold them accountable.”
It's been more than three weeks since the U.S. and Russia completed the largest prisoner swap since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Speaking from the White House shortly after news broke that three American prisoners were headed home, President Biden described the release as an "incredible relief."
Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva was one of those prisoners, and she's sharing what life was like in a Russian prison and how she's adjusting to life at home.
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