Featured Story | Vote if You Want, but Remember ‘Cypherpunks Write Code’
Presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy's unfinished crypto mandate shows the hollowness of crypto as a political concern.
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Today’s featured story is by Daniel Kuhn, titled: Vote if You Want, but Remember ‘Cypherpunks Write Code’?
Vote if You Want, but Remember 'Cypherpunks Write Code'
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This episode was hosted by Noelle Acheson. “Markets Daily” is executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced and edited by Michele Musso. All original music by Doc Blust and Colin Mealey. This episode used Wondercraft Voice AI.
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Noelle Acheson is host of the CoinDesk "Markets Daily" podcast, and author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter on Substack. She is also former head of research at CoinDesk and sister company Genesis Trading. Follow her on Twitter at @NoelleInMadrid.

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