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Pudgy Penguins intends to airdrop around 25% of its PENGU token supply to the Solana ecosystem, enabling active users who interact with decentralized applications like Phantom and Jupiter to receive tokens without owning Pudgy NFTs.

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Republicans voted to elect cryptocurrency-friendly French Hill to the post of chairman of the key Financial Services Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. theblock https://www.theblock.co/post/330705/rep-french-hill-secures-chairmanship-to-lead-the-house-financial-services-committee-reports

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Step Finance will be the first company to introduce tokenized stock trading of large companies such as Nvidia and Tesla into the Solana ecosystem (#SOL) https://www.theblock.co/post/330548/step-finance-tokenized-stocks-nvidia-tesla-solana

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The second record outflow in the history of $541 million was recorded from the BTC-ETF. https://sosovalue.com/assets/etf/us-btc-spot

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Pavel Durov has announced new functionality for Telegram applications. https://t.me/durov/362

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The UK Pension Fund has allocated $2 million to buy Bitcoin. https://corporate-adviser.com/cartwright-calls-on-uk-institutional-investors-to-back-bitcoin/

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Exciting news! The Scroll airdrop is set for October 22nd! Mark your calendars and stay tuned for more details!

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Morgan Stanley BTC-ETF assets reached $272.1 million. https://coinmarketcap.com/community/articles/6711cf1114ad8873440d1f7b/

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The SEC has filed an appeal in the case against Ripple. https://www.theblock.co/post/321874/us-sec-takes-next-steps-in-its-appeal-against-earlier-ripple-ruling-as-case-forges-on

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Generative AI is helping me write code, make drawings and learn. Crypto is helping me make international payments, use more open social networks, and get a new class of supplementary news via polymarket. What is the metaverse doing? (Genuine question, not an attack) https://x.com/edzitron/status/1833914016240222715

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The organizer of a $4 billion crypto scam was detained in Turkey. https://www.turkiyetoday.com/business/omegapro-ceo-that-scammed-4b-over-crypto-apprehended-in-istanbul-43290/

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In 3 days, the net outflow from the Ethereum ETF amounted to $178 million, and total assets approached $9 billion. https://platform.arkhamintelligence.com/explorer/entity/grayscale

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Protos: If the situation with CZ does not change, he will not leave FCI Lompoc II on August 30th. Rather, his current release date is set for September 29. CZ is being held at the Lompoc II Federal Correctional Institution, a low-security federal prison three hours north. Los Angeles. https://protos.com/when-is-binance-founder-cz-coming-out-of-prison/

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One way to look at the possible effects of deepfakes in politics is to look at "shallow fakes" that have been possible for a long time. For example, this screenshot purporting to be a "you're free to say whatever nasty stuff you want" whitelist for twitter. I actually have no idea if this is real or fake, but there definitely are some people who are treating it as real, imo without sufficient evidence. And yet, the effects of things like this are pretty bounded. This feels like a plausible outcome for deepfakes in politics. The smart people know not to trust a politician's statements without confirmation on official channels, and less smart people get tricked, as they do today with shallow fakes. If something fake goes viral, Community Notes can help on the margin in making it clear that it's fake. Most normies don't actually look at this stuff in real time, and so the effect ends up not too bad. This is the strongest case for not being too worried. The place where I am *more* worried about deepfakes is...

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Kamala Harris may also speak at the Bitcoin 2024 conference. The head of the conference is in talks with her team https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/24/07/39922155/kamala-harris-to-speak-at-bitcoin-conference-featuring-robert-kennedy-jr-trump-event-ceo-s

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bears are prohibited from attending the Bitcoin 2024 conference

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for the first time in a year, an unrealistically steep buy signal appeared in BTC

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JPMorgan journalists doubted the sustainability of Bitcoin's growth. https://www.theblock.co/post/306495/jpmorgan-crypto-rebounds-unlikely-sustained

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