Ready your wallets, because the Crunchyroll Store — the ultimate destination for anime-inspired apparel, collectibles, manga, and more — has announced its first annual Summer of Anime sales event! From July 31…
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A TikTok Ban Would Set a Dangerous Precedent. Live With Taylor Lorenz and Peter Van Valkenburgh
“Your platform should be banned,” Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R–Wash.) said to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew during her opening statement at a March 23 congressional hearing. The attacks on TikTok were…
Balaji's Bet: Bitcoin Hits $1 Million in 90 Days. Live With Balaji Srinivasan, Lawrence White, and Zach Weissmueller
“You buy 1 BTC. I will send $1M USD.” Those were the stakes that venture capitalist Balaji Srinivasan proposed over Twitter to pseudonymous writer and self-described “tax enthusiast” James Medlock on March…
Blame the Government for the New Banking Crisis? Live With Lyn Alden, Arnold Kling and Zach Weissmueller
“We have learned over the last few days that many small and mid-sized banks in this country are Zombies,” writes Arnold Kling, a senior scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason…
Nostr and the Decentralized Future of Social Media Is Here: Live with NVK, Will Casarin, Nick Gillespie, and Zach Weissmueller
What is Nostr, the fledgling software project to which Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey gave 14 bitcoin (worth approximately $245,000 at the time) in December following Elon Musk’s controversial Twitter…
Renegade SEC Commissioner Wants To Save Crypto: Live With Hester Peirce, Nick Gillespie, and Zach Weissmueller
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Kraken—America’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume—with offering an unregistered security last Thursday. As part of a settlement, Kraken agreed to immediately cease offering interest-bearing “staking”…
FTX Meltdown and the Future of Crypto: Live With Kraken Co-Founder Jesse Powell
When a cryptocurrency exchange holding $16 billion worth of customer deposits suddenly collapses, what does that portend for the future of the crypto industry? How did Sam Bankman-Fried, the 30-year-old founder of…