The White House is waging a pressure campaign against some of the country’s most prominent law firms. WSJ’s Erin Mulvaney on how the firm Paul, Weiss came to the decision to make a deal with President Trump.
Join Washington Examiner Senior Writer David Harsanyi and Federalist Editor-In-Chief Mollie Hemingway as they review Mollie's testimony about the censorship-industrial complex to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and discuss how The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg ended up in a sensitive Signal chat between some of President Donald Trump's cabinet. Mollie and David also respond to listener mail about Adolescence and share their thoughts on Severance.
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The race is on for control over deposits of rare earth elements and critical minerals that are necessary in much of the technology we use today. The U.S. is lagging behind it's main rival in this global competition, China. We hear about why these resources are so sought after and the stakes in the race to control them.
No matter how hard Republicans try to spin the sharing of top secret military attack plans on an insecure app, the colossal f***up of an administration that claimed it was rooting out incompetence is plain on its face. And while Jeffrey Goldberg told Tim Tuesday that he was mulling over releasing the Signal messages, he went ahead and did so after the administration accused him of lying and sneaking into the Signal group chat. Plus, Russia pretends to agree to a cease-fire, Breitbart kind of grows up, and a new book examines Capitol Hill's craziness—including Trump's control of the House GOP, Nancy Mace's delusions of grandeur, and Schumer's infinite faith in the Republican Party of old.
Michael Weiss, Ben Smith, and Annie Karni join Tim Miller.
The deal seemed too good to be true. There's a website that's been selling top quality diamonds at bizarrely low prices. Prices we couldn't find at any retail outlet. Prices so low, we could buy a diamond on a public radio budget. So we did. What we got in the mail was a tiny ziploc bag containing a scintillating mystery.
On today's show: the Planet Money Diamond (or whatever this sparkly rock turns out to be). We get it analyzed by the experts at the Gemological Institute of America. We investigate where it came from. And, we dive into the economics of glittery stones. Was this a new kind of internet scam? Some supply chain anomaly? Or is something just really weird going on in the world of diamonds?
This episode was produced by James Sneed. It was edited by Keith Romer with help from Jess Jiang, fact-checked by Emma Peaslee, and engineered by Kwesi Lee. Alex Goldmark is our executive producer.
At the end of our last episode, we asked you to call in and tell us what has been bringing you joy, connecting you to your community, and where you’ve been finding hope in these last few months. These are some of the responses we wanted to share in hopes that we can all find new ways to survive this world together. Thank you to all who sent us messages; though we couldn’t play them all, we felt inspired listening to each and every one.
StarkWare founder Eli Ben-Sasson explains Starknet settling on both Ethereum and Bitcoin, the need for Bitcoin scaling through OP_CAT, quantum computing threats, and preventing Bitcoin from becoming an exclusive asset only for the wealthy.
Eli Ben-Sasson, co-founder and CEO of StarkWare, joins us to discuss how StarkNet plans to settle on both Ethereum and Bitcoin. We dive into the technical details of zero-knowledge proofs, the importance of OP_CAT for Bitcoin's future, and the fascinating Collider Script approach to covenants. Eli shares his concerns about Bitcoin ossification, explaining why without scaling solutions, Bitcoin risks becoming a "Rolex" - an asset only accessible to the wealthy. We also explore quantum computing threats and potential solutions for securing Bitcoin's future.
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Notes:
- StarkWare has over 200 team members
- OP_CAT is the "greenest" covenant proposal
- Quantum threats require ZK-based solutions
- Collider Script enables covenants at high cost
- Bitcoin fees prevent mass adoption
- Bitcoin needs soft forks to avoid ossification
00:00 Start
01:09 Starkware background
04:38 Bringing ZK tech to Bitcoin
07:53 What is a "unified" layer 2?
09:21 Why use Starknet?
11:33 Posting proofs on-chain
13:26 OP_CAT
16:55 Collider script
19:35 Arch
20:09 SHA1 collisions?
22:43 Brute forcing covenants into Bitcoin
24:53 fear of soft fork
27:59 Quantum
32:16 Possible quantum futures
34:26 Why ZK_Starks for Satoshi's coins??
38:16 Confiscation vs network protection
43:18 Self custody future
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Host Christine Lee breaks down the latest news in the industry as IMX token jumps after the SEC ends enforcement threats against Immutable.
IMX token jumps after the SEC ends enforcement threats against Immutable. Plus the U.S. FDIC drops "reputational risk" banking discrimination against crypto firms and Fidelity Investments develops its own stablecoin. CoinDesk's Christine Lee breaks it down on "CoinDesk Daily."
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This episode was hosted by Christine Lee. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Christine Lee and edited by Victor Chen.
