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Molly White

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.
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  • S4 · E18
    Yesterday · 25 min

    Issue 109 – Reg Crypto

    The SEC’s “Reg Crypto” aims to carve out exemptions, the CFTC wields emergency powers to shield prediction markets from state regulators, and a Trump family crypto firm gets a bank charter. https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-109/ on August 31, 2026.

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  • S4 · E17
    August 12 · 26 min

    Issue 108 – In a word, applesauce

    Firms close up shop amid a continued crypto winter, a Trump venture ditches its crypto plans, and the Clarity Act fails to reach a vote before August recess. https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-108/ on August 11, 2026.

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  • S4 · E16
    July 23 · 26 min

    Issue 107 – An unserious offer

    The crypto industry has spent $200 million to get a bill too corrupt for Democrats to pass and a president too corrupt to sign anything that might meaningfully limit his grift. https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-107/ on July 23, 2026.

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  • S4 · E15
    July 1 · 10 min

    Trump’s $1.4 billion crypto disclosure

    The White House insists there’s no conflict of interest as Trump reports $1.4 billion in income from an industry he’s deregulated. https://www.citationneeded.news/trumps-crypto-disclosure/ on July 1, 2026.

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  • S4 · E14
    June 18 · 34 min

    Issue 106 – A tremendous birthday present

    The crypto industry spent the spring buying primaries, an octagon at the White House, and — they hope — a market-structure bill by the Fourth of July. https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-106/ on June 18, 2026.

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  • S4 · E11
    May 8 · 32 min

    Issue 105 – The new boogeyman

    A crypto billionaire who escaped fraud allegations after investing hundreds of millions of dollars into the Trump family’s crypto projects is now accusing them of fraud. https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-105/ on May 8, 2026.

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  • S4 · E10
    April 29 · 8 min

    No new trial for Sam Bankman-Fried

    The former CEO of FTX has essentially no realistic avenues left to avoid his 25-year prison sentence. https://www.citationneeded.news/sbf-new-trial-denied/ on April 28, 2026.

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  • S4 · E9
    April 20 · 30 min

    Issue 104 – World Tyranny Financial

    As the Trump family’s crypto dealings raise more alarms, crypto enforcement is falling to new lows. https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-104/ on April 20, 2026.

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  • S4 · E8
    March 31 · 29 min

    Issue 103 – The President’s Council of Podcasters

    Coinbase is accused of holding the cryptocurrency industry hostage over stablecoin rewards, prediction markets face an onslaught of opposition, and a Stand With Crypto poll can’t even get enthusiasm from its own activists....

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  • S4 · E7
    March 27 · 20 min

    Sam Bankman-Fried’s helicopter parents crash into federal court

    SBF praises Trump from prison, his parents beg for a pardon on CNN, and his legal ethics professor mother files court documents claiming to be from him — prompting a judge to demand he swear under oath who wrote them....

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  • S4 · E6
    March 16 · 39 min

    Issue 102 – The public will pay

    Justin Sun buys his way out of an SEC fraud case, Iranian transactions on Binance draw DOJ scrutiny as the exchange sues the newspaper that reported on them, and crypto super PACs dump millions into Tuesday’s primaries in Illinois....

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  • S4 · E5
    February 27 · 37 min

    Issue 101 – Bought and paid for

    Bitcoin is down 50%, several prominent industry figures have been uncovered in the Epstein files, Trump’s facing a probe into his family’s $500M deal with the UAE, and crypto super PACs spend their first $6 million in the midterms....

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  • S4 · E3
    January 30 · 28 min

    Issue 100 – Freedom of all kinds is worth fighting for

    As masked agents execute people and terrorize communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom fall conspicuously silent — except when writing checks for the politicians enabling it. https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-100/ on...

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  • S4 · E2
    January 19 · 31 min

    Issue 99 – They’ve bought themselves a Congress

    Coinbase calls the shots in the Senate, former New York City Mayor Eric Adams faces rug pull allegations, and a crypto executive is breaking up with Trump. https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-99/ on January 19, 2026.

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  • S4 · E1
    January 7 · 17 min

    The year of technoligarchy

    In 2025, Trump brought tech executives into power to dismantle regulators and write their own rules. But the instabilities they’re creating may be their downfall. https://www.citationneeded.news/the-year-of-technoligarchy/ on January 7, 2026.

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  • S3 · E41
    Dec 17, 2025 · 35 min

    Issue 98 – The world’s most corrupt crypto startup operation

    Terra’s Do Kwon gets 15 years, crypto banks get the green light, and the Trump family’s crypto grift expands even as one of their treasury companies goes off the rails. https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-98/ on December 16, 2025.

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  • S3 · E40
    Nov 25, 2025 · 10 min

    Digital asset treasury companies are running out of steam

    Convincing traders to pay $2 for $1 of bitcoin worked — for a while. As premiums evaporate, an unwind could be painful. https://www.citationneeded.news/digital-asset-treasury-companies/ on November 25, 2025.

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