Molly White's Citation Needed

By Molly White

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muck
 Mar 25, 2025
Always quality. Want to know about crypto and it's impact in politics and finance without being sold anything? this one's for you.


 May 23, 2024

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Keep up with the happenings in the tech world without all the boosterism. Cryptocurrency critic, technology researcher, and software engineer Molly White publishes Citation Needed, a newsletter that features weekly explainers of developments in the cryptocurrency industry, with summaries of the latest disasters featured on her well-known project Web3 is Going Just Great. She also does deep dives into important events in the broader technology industry, with added critical context that is too often missing.

Episode Date
Issue 82 – E-moluments
Apr 24, 2025
Trump’s newest grift: Building a cryptocurrency empire while destroying its regulators
Apr 17, 2025
Issue 81 – Crypto crime is legal
Apr 08, 2025
Issue 80 – Aimed at benefiting the digital assets industry
Mar 28, 2025
Issue 79 – Mundus sine Caesaribus
Mar 20, 2025
“Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AI
Mar 14, 2025
Crypto reserves: no public good, no principles
Mar 11, 2025
Issue 78 – President on brink of bailout for bitcoin
Mar 03, 2025
Issue 77 – Whenever presidents get involved, if they become angry, you don't want to be there
Feb 19, 2025
The crypto industry’s debanking smokescreen
Feb 14, 2025
Issue 76 – Tripartisan legislation
Feb 06, 2025
Trump's Project 2025 ghostwriters
Jan 28, 2025
Issue 75 – Absolutely preposterous
Jan 25, 2025
No, Trump didn’t make $50 billion from his memecoin
Jan 20, 2025
Issue 74 – Stop asking me questions like “where does the yield come from”
Jan 18, 2025
Issue 73 – Degen volunteer fire brigade
Jan 10, 2025
Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia
Jan 02, 2025
Not just one bad apple: FTX's practices were business as usual in crypto
Dec 31, 2024
Issue 72 – A seat at the table
Dec 24, 2024
Issue 71 – (Crypto) banks are not your friends
Dec 05, 2024
The Cryptocurrency Industry's Unprecedented Election Spending
Nov 22, 2024
Issue 70 – The Cryptocurrency States of America
Nov 15, 2024
Wind the clock
Nov 08, 2024
Issue 69 – Nice
Nov 02, 2024
I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of “just go independent”
Oct 26, 2024
Guilty or coerced? Ryan Salame’s last interviews before prison
Oct 21, 2024
Issue 68 – Opportunity agenda
Oct 17, 2024
Fighting for our web
Oct 07, 2024
Caroline Ellison: A woman with agency or a helpless pawn?
Oct 02, 2024
POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world
Sep 27, 2024
Issue 67 – Bug out bitcoin
Sep 24, 2024
Issue 66 – Pretensions to relevance
Sep 17, 2024
Big publishers think libraries are the enemy
Sep 12, 2024
Issue 65 – World Liberty Fiasco
Sep 06, 2024
Polling: Are Democratic voters really “increasingly gravitating towards crypto”?
Aug 30, 2024
Issue 64 – Pointing its arsenal at our friends
Aug 17, 2024
Sexism in Bitcoin: an interview with Lyn Alden
Aug 07, 2024
Issue 63 – RobConf 2024
Aug 07, 2024
Coinbase appears to have violated campaign finance laws with a $25 million super PAC donation
Jul 30, 2024
When did cryptocurrency policy become a voter issue?
Jul 29, 2024
Issue 62 – Grassroots
Jul 24, 2024
Follow the Crypto
Jul 12, 2024
Issue 61 – Soft war by the enemy
Jul 05, 2024
Issue 60 – Raging in favor of the machine
Jun 24, 2024
Issue 59 – Hot damn, this is going to get interesting quickly
Jun 07, 2024
Cryptocurrency companies have raised over $115 million to influence US elections this cycle, and they’re just getting started
May 30, 2024
Privacy, human rights, and Tornado Cash
May 23, 2024
Issue 58 – Threats to the stability and integrity of Ethereum
May 19, 2024
Issue 57 - I take deep breath and I get real high
May 08, 2024
We can have a different web
May 01, 2024
Issue 56 – What are you gonna do, arrest me?
Apr 25, 2024
AI isnt useless. But is it worth it?
Apr 17, 2024
Issue 55 – Halving a bad time
Apr 13, 2024
Issue 54 – Cases continue
Apr 02, 2024
25 years for Sam Bankman-Fried
Mar 29, 2024
Sam Bankman-Fried wants only six years for his "victimless" crime
Mar 26, 2024
Issue 53 – Choose rich
Mar 13, 2024
Issue 52 – I am Sam's low-level culpability
Feb 29, 2024
Issue 51 – It's quiet... too quiet
Feb 15, 2024
We need to talk about digital ownership
Feb 11, 2024
Review: Chris Dixon's Read Write Own
Feb 07, 2024
Issue 50 – Bitcoin busts
Feb 02, 2024
Issue 49 – And so the Lord says "give them a 10x"
Jan 23, 2024
The charges against Binance
Jan 15, 2024
Issue 48 – Bitcoin has "no chance" of going to the moon
Jan 10, 2024
Issue 47 – Residual garbage
Dec 27, 2023
Issue 46 – Checkmate, crypto
Dec 15, 2023
Issue 45 – I'm the director now
Dec 05, 2023
Effective obfuscation
Nov 30, 2023
Issue 44 – Four
Nov 30, 2023
Issue 43 – Laser eyes
Nov 30, 2023
The stones left unturned in the Sam Bankman-Fried trial
Nov 30, 2023
Sam Bankman-Fried: guilty on all charges
Nov 30, 2023
The FTX trial, days 15–16: Sam Bankman-Fried doesn't recall
Nov 30, 2023
The FTX trial, day fourteen: Same events, new stories
Nov 30, 2023
The FTX trial, day thirteen: Sam Bankman-Fried gets a dress rehearsal
Nov 30, 2023
Sam Bankman-Fried will testify, and I'll be there
Nov 30, 2023
The FTX trial, day twelve: What's up with Sam Bankman-Fried's defense?
Nov 30, 2023
The FTX trial, day eleven: Off the record
Nov 30, 2023
The FTX trial, day ten: Heinously criminal
Nov 30, 2023
The FTX trial, day nine: Nishad Singh: "I have always been intimidated by Sam"
Nov 30, 2023
The FTX trial, day eight: Defrauding lenders
Nov 30, 2023
The FTX trial, day seven: Sam, I guess
Nov 30, 2023
The FTX trial, day six: A constant state of dread
Nov 30, 2023
The FTX trial, day five: Sam Bankman-Fried for president
Nov 30, 2023
The FTX trial, day four: The fraud was in the code
Nov 29, 2023
The FTX trial, days 2–3: "FTX defrauded its customers", says former employee
Nov 29, 2023
The FTX trial, day one: Jury selected in Sam Bankman-Fried case
Nov 29, 2023
A preview of the Sam Bankman-Fried trial
Nov 29, 2023