Astrology! To true believers, this genre of divination provides deep inside to the secret mechanicisms of the Heavens and the Earth. To skeptics, it's bunk -- another mistaken set of beliefs best left to benighted empires of old. And yet, as Ben, Matt and Noel discover in the first part of this special two-part series, astrology still can play a massive role in the modern world. In Chapter One, the guys explore the origins of astrology before traveling to Myanmar, where multiple rulers made extreme decisions based on what they believed was guidance from the stars.
It?s been 12 weeks since President Trump announced the formation of DOGE, the so-called department of Government efficiency. We fact-check various claims connected with the drive to route out inefficiency. Listeners asked us to investigate the claim that 1 in 12 Londoners is an illegal immigrant. We look into the claim that imported New Zealand apples have a smaller carbon footprint than British grown apples. Plus - did VAT on private schools really boost the rate of inflation, or was that just a media concoction?
Presenter: Tim Harford
Series Producer: Charlotte McDonald
Producers: Lizzy McNeill, Nathan Gower and Josh McMinn
Sound Mix: Rod Farquhar
Editor: Richard Vadon
Production Co-Ordinator: Brenda Brown
Insights with Jennifer Sanasie and CoinDesk Deputy Managing Editor of Tech and Protocols Sam Kessler.
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The Trump administration has demonstrated a friendlier stance towards digital assets but could the President's involvement in crypto projects be considered conflicts of interest? CoinDesk Deputy Managing Editor of Tech and Protocols Sam Kessler weighs in.
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Friends, DeFi is having a moment — Uniswap Labs' web app and wallet connect you to the excitement. Swapping and bridging are simple, low cost, and lightning fast across 13 chains, including Base, Arbitrum and Unichain, the new Layer 2 network designed for DeFi.
Thanks to deep liquidity on Uniswap Protocols, you get minimal price impact on every trade, now with even greater efficiency through Uniswap v4.
Swap, send, on-ramp, off-ramp, and bridge into a bright future — get started at uniswap.org.
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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “Markets Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.
Putin has been named a war criminal because of the Russian way of war in Ukraine—bombing Kyiv and other cities, attacking civilians and first aid workers, and destroying infrastructure. The administration's pause on aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine made the US complicit in those crimes. Meanwhile, Trump does not have any leverage to force Russia to comply with the proposed cease-fire. Plus, the escalating trade war with the EU harms our national security, our allies' hesitancy to share intelligence because of Tulsi, and the South African DOGE bro's laughably absurd attack on Mark Kelly.
Today we talk with the authors of “In Covid’s Wake: How our Politics Failed Us” by Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee. We talk about what we got wrong during the pandemic, how to battle groupthink, especially when it comes to science, and why so many people were willing to accept one version of public health without proper debate or questioning. This was an informative and thought-provoking episode, one that made us rethink a lot of what we knew about what was happening in the early months of 2020.
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South Sudan’s unity government, led by President Salva Kiir with former rebel leader, Riek Machar as First Vice President, is facing mounting tensions, and clashes between forces allied to the president and first vice president are threatening a fragile power-sharing agreement. Could the young nation be heading towards a new civil war?
For the first time in 17 years, Libya is calling on foreign companies to explore oil in its territory. But will investors be forthcoming?
And why South Africa's apartheid reparations fund remains largely unspent, 30 years after it was set up to compensate victims of gross human rights violations.
Presenter: Charles Gitonga
Technical Producer: Craig Kingham
Producers: Sunita Nahar in London. Frenny Jowi in Nairobi and Blessing Aderogba in Lagos
Senior Journalist: Patricia Whitehorne
Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi
Host Christine Lee breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry from the U.S. inflation forecast to the reintroduction of Senator Lummis' BITCOIN Act.
U.S. inflation report expectations and the reintroduction of Senator Cynthia Lummis' BITCOIN Act are giving BTC a boost Wednesday. Plus, the U.S. House overturns an IRS broker rule on DeFi and the U.S. SEC delays XRP, DOGE, LITE ETFs. CoinDesk's Christine Lee hosts "CoinDesk Daily."
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Friends, DeFi is having a moment — Uniswap Labs' web app and wallet connect you to the excitement. Swapping and bridging are simple, low cost, and lightning fast across 13 chains, including Base, Arbitrum and Unichain, the new Layer 2 network designed for DeFi.
Thanks to deep liquidity on Uniswap Protocols, you get minimal price impact on every trade, now with even greater efficiency through Uniswap v4.
Swap, send, on-ramp, off-ramp, and bridge into a bright future — get started at uniswap.org.
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This episode was hosted by Christine Lee. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Christine Lee and edited by Victor Chen.
Today's podcast is an effort to help me find my bearings in a world in which Ukraine agrees to a cease-fire, RFK Jr. is doing an ad for Steak'n'Shake, Donald Trump is selling Teslas on the White House lawn, and Democrats are siding with a terror-supporting activist. Give a listen.
Janusz is meeting Solana degens where they’re at by building a product that helps them stack bitcoin during their regular Solana use. “Lemon Drop” is the first product release in Janusz’s recent Bitcoin pivot and builds towards his bigger goal: increasing Bitcoin privacy through increasing Bitcoin’s anonymity set. Also: activating a Bitcoin soft fork?
Notes:
• How Lemon Drop works
• Privacy on Bitcoin
• Open Source vs Product focused development
• A soft fork activation?
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:02 Anon payments
03:17 Pivot on Layers project
05:39 Lemondrop
10:13 Inspiration
12:45 Arch Network
13:17 Building the team
16:52 Wrapped BTC
20:36 Bitcoin Layers project
25:51 Soft fork activation client
32:26 Advocating for specific covenants
37:11 Privacy projects
42:43 Privacy adoption
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