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CoinDesk Podcast Network - MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | The SEC’s Dwindling Influence on Crypto Markets

Noelle Acheson, the mind behind the Crypto Is Macro Now newsletter, explores bitcoin above $38,000, rates expectations, U.S. SEC influence and more.

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Today’s Stories:

Solana Leads Layer-1 Token Gains as Bitcoin Crosses $38K  

Kaiko Data Debrief 

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This episode was hosted by Noelle Acheson. “Markets Daily” is executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced and edited by Eleanor Pahl. All original music by Doc Blust and Colin Mealey.

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Hypnosis: Fact and Fiction

Most people are familiar with some version of "hypnosis" -- at least as it's portrayed in fiction. But what is hypnosis, exactly? Why did this fancy name for a trance state become such an infamous term, and why have so many people made extravagant claims about the concept? In tonight's episode, Ben, Matt and Noel explore the fact and fiction surrounding 'hypnosis' -- spoiler: the trance state is real, and a lot of people conspire to make money off it.

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Focus on Africa - Thousands of children reportedly trapped in historic city of Timbuktu

More than 136,000 people, including an estimated 74,000 children are trapped in the historic northern Mali city of Timbuktu, according to the NGO Save the Children. This follows a siege by the al-Qaeda linked jihadists

How did Zambia get into so much debt and how it plans to get out of it?

And we meet Abdullahi Mire - winner of a top UN award for promoting education for refugee children.

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CBS News Roundup - 11/29/2023 | World News Roundup

Deadly U-S military crash off the Japanese coast. Negotiations to extend the Israel-Hamas truce. George Santos expulsion vote. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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Big Technology Podcast - Silicon Valley’s Effective Altruist vs. Accelerationist Religious War

Molly White, Ryan Broderick, and Deepa Seetharaman join Big Technology Podcast to dive deep into the Effective Altruism (EA) vs. Effective Accelerationism (e/acc) debate in Silicon Valley that may have been at the heart of the OpenAI debacle. White is a crypto researcher and critic who writes Citation Needed on Substack, Broderick is an internet culture reporter who writes Garbage Day on Substack, Seetharaman is a reporter at The Wall Street Journal who covers AI. Our three guests join to discuss who these groups are, how they formed, how their influence played into the OpenAI coup and counter-coup, and where they go from here.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Work On Migrant Tent Camp To Begin In Brighton Park

Nearly 26,000 migrants and asylum seekers have arrived in Chicago since August 2022. The post-Thanksgiving cold snap has highlighted just how important it is to find housing for the thousands currently sleeping in police stations, tents and the city’s airports. Reset gets the latest on the Johnson administration’s plans for a tent camp in Brighton Park and hears about other efforts to house migrants and asylum seekers from WBEZ city government and politics reporter Tessa Weinberg. To explore our full catalog of interviews, head on over to wbez.org/reset.
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CoinDesk Podcast Network - UNCHAINED: Why the Crypto Industry Is So Upset About the IRS’ Proposed New Tax Reporting Rules

A pair of crypto industry tax experts describe the problems with the tax agency’s new reporting proposals and suggest alternatives.  

The IRS sparked a storm of controversy when it released proposed new rules for crypto transaction reporting earlier this year. The new rules seek to define who is considered a broker, what types of transactions need to get reported, and the kinds of digital assets that need to be included, but many in the industry consider them overly broad and ultimately unworkable. 

Lawrence Zlatkin, VP of Tax at Coinbase, and Shehan Chandrasekera, Head of Tax Strategy at tax software firm CoinTracker, discuss the crypto industry’s specific objections to the proposed new rules, and what might be a better way forward. They also delve into how the regulations would apply to stablecoins and NFTs, potential blockchain-based solutions for the reporting requirements, and what the likely outlook and timeline for the proposals to come into effect are.  

Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform.

Show highlights |  

  • What the newly proposed IRS regulations around crypto are and when they are likely to go into effect
  • What entities qualify as a broker and why this may pose a problem
  • What the implications for the industry are if these regulations were passed
  • The number of additional reports the IRS is expecting to receive if these regulations are adopted
  • How the regulations would apply to stablecoins and NFTs
  • What the five types of brokers are under the proposed regulations and the three types that they exclude, according to Shehan
  • The unprecedented amount of comments submitted
  • What suggestions Coinbase and CoinTracker have in mind for better tax regulation
  • Why Lawrence thinks that DeFi exchanges should be treated the same as centralized ones
  • Whether people should have privacy concerns about the new proposals
  • What some blockchain-based solutions for tax reporting, such as attestation tokens
  • What are the next steps for the IRS's proposed regulation are
  • How long it will take to actually implement these regulations


Thank you to our sponsors!  LayerZero | Popcorn Network

Guests | 

Shehan Chandrasekera, Head of Tax Strategy at CoinTracker

Lawrence Zlatkin, VP of Tax at Coinbase

Links |  

Previous coverage of Unchained on crypto taxes, with appearances from Shehan and Lawrence:

Everything You Need to Know About Filing Your 2022 Crypto Taxes

Your 2021 Crypto Taxes: How to Handle NFTs, DAOs, Airdrops and More

Everything You Need to Know About Your 2020 Crypto Taxes 

Why You Shouldn’t Trust Crypto Exchange Reports for Your Taxes

The IRS Is Cracking Down on Crypto Taxes: What You Need to Know 

Could the Bank Secrecy Act Harm Crypto? Coin Center Thinks So

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (117th Congress)


Proposed rule:

IRS proposed rule text: Gross Proceeds and Basis Reporting by Brokers and Determination of Amount Realized and Basis for Digital Asset Transactions

U.S. Department of the Treasury, IRS Release Proposed Regulations on Sales and Exchanges of Digital Assets by Brokers

CoinDesk: How the Crypto Industry Responded to the IRS Proposed Broker Rule

Twitter thread from Ji Kim of the Crypto Council for Innovation 

CNBC: President Joe Biden to sign the bipartisan infrastructure bill⁠ into law—here's how crypto investors will be impacted

IRS issues guidance, seeks comments on nonfungible tokens

Coinbase first comment letter

Coinbase second comment letter

CoinTracker comment letter


Unchained Podcast is Produced by Laura Shin Media, LLC.  Distributed by CoinDesk. Senior Producer is Michele Musso and Executive Producer is Jared Schwartz. 

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Time To Say Goodbye - “Everything is collapsing around the world,” with Andy Liu

Hello from Philly! 

This week, Andy joins us for one of Tammy’s last eps as a host of TTSG. 🥲 After catching up on dog COVID, [6:10] we discuss how China’s historical self-identification as a vanguard of the Third World has given way, through decades of technological and economic growth, to a more general anti-West position. [29:00] We also reflect on the various pockets of U.S. public opinion on Gaza and Zionism, from Andy’s college students to our elected officials (and their press secretaries). [53:30] Finally, we debate whether the term “barbaric” has been selectively applied since October 7, along with larger questions of media bias. 

In this episode, we ask: 

Where does China’s relatively strong support of Palestine come from, and is it actually as strong as it seems? 

How does the movement for a free Palestine fit into the idea of what it means to be a good leftist? 

Should media outlets rethink when to publish gruesome images of victims of violence? 

For more, see: 

* Times coverage of the Biden-Xi Summit (and Blinken’s reaction to a Biden gaffe) 

* More on the three young Palestinian American students who were shot in Vermont, the NYU doctor who was fired over his racist social media posts, and the friendship between a Palestinian and a pro-Israel chef in Philly that has soured

* Words from Lydia Polgreen and from Jay on the question of publishing graphic photos of children killed in Gaza 

Reminder: Tammy is hosting a virtual TTSG book club meeting for subscribers tonight at 5pm PST // 8pm EST (9am in Shanghai) with cartoonist, illustrator, and Discord OG Jillian Tamaki! We’ll get some BTS insight from Jillian on the graphic novel she just published with her cousin and co-author, Mariko Tamaki, Roaming. You can find the Zoom info on Discord or in this post! 

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NPR's Book of the Day - Patricia Park’s new YA novel captures the complexities of race and adolescence

Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim follows a Korean-Argentinian teen's journey to understanding who she is. Through the comfort of her multicultural home in Queens to the hallways of her ultra-woke, elite prep school in Manhattan, Alejandra grapples with academics, the politics of school lunch, and even a microaggression from her own teacher. As author Patricia Park tells Here & Now's Robin Young, it's a story about how quickly the world is changing – and how conversations about race are, or aren't, keeping up.

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