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Are Blockchains Decentralized? Unintended Centralities in Distributed Ledgers

The report investigates the true decentralization of blockchains, highlighting various forms of centralization, vulnerabilities in consensus protocols, and the implications for security and immutability in networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum.

blog.trailofbits.com

Community Weaving

Sita Magnuson substack.com

The Path to American Authoritarianism: What Comes After ...

Steven Levitsky foreignaffairs.com

Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America

Ava Kofman newyorker.com

Twilight of the Media Elites

Antonio Garcia Martinez pullrequest.substack.com

The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy

Matthew Stewart theatlantic.com

https://substack.com/inbox/post/148213751

Taylor Lorenz substack.com

For the October issue of @TheAtlantic I profiled Mike Lee—a man whose transformation from anti-Trump crusader to raunchy MAGA influencer has shocked and unsettled his longtime friends. For his next act, Lee could become attorney general. What he told me—about January 6, the DOJ being weaponized, and the one regret he ha... See more

Tim Alberta x.com

By 2015 it was Donald Trump who had once again melded the combative Rothbardian style to Buchananite ideology. Trump did not simply defeat Jeb Bush; he humiliated him and his family on a personal level. Ditto Ted “Your father shot JFK” Cruz, and Marco “Google ‘gay rumors’” Rubio. Many in the thinking class assume Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing,