Dan Davies

1 month ago | coinlive.com | Dan Davies |Henry Farrell

Author: Dan Davies; Henry J. Farrell; Source: The New York Times; Compiler: BitpushNews YananIt was a fruitful week for US cryptocurrency interest groups. The Genius Act was passed by the Senate, officially legalizing cryptocurrencies such as "stablecoins". More notably, President Trump hosted a private dinner on Thursday for the top 220 investors in the number of $Trump memecoins. However, for the United States as a whole, this was by no means a week worth celebrating.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Dan Davies |Henry Farrell

This has been a good week for America's crypto interests. The Genius Act, which legitimates a kind of cryptocurrency called stablecoins, advanced in the Senate, and on Thursday, President Trump held a gala dinner for the top 220 holders of his $Trump memecoin. That doesn't mean it's been a good week for America. Stablecoins, as their name suggests, are crypto assets guaranteed by other assets like the U.S. dollar.

2 months ago | backofmind.substack.com | Dan Davies

Alright – I’m in a funny mood today so let’s do this week’s post in the form of thinly fictionalised nonfiction. Imagine it’s the 1970s, and we’re looking at a town in the Northwest of England, rugby league country, just at the point in time when the word “post-industrial” is beginning to be coined. The town council isn’t called a Corporation any more, but it still acts like one. Our main character is a likely lad who works for the environmental health department.

2 months ago | zenodo.org | Anthony Onwuli |Alex Moriarty |Dan Davies |Aron Walsh

<!-- Release notes generated using configuration in .github/release.yml at master --> What's Changed SMACT Metallicity Handling Enhancements by @ryannduma in https://github.com/WMD-group/SMACT/pull/367 Changes to the smact_validity function to allow for early short-circuiting resolving issue #378 by @ryannduma in https://github.com/WMD-group/SMACT/pull/379 Merge develop into master branch by @AntObi in https://github.com/WMD-group/SMACT/pull/392 Updated oxidation.py and its tests by @KingaMas...

2 months ago | niskanencenter.org | Dan Davies

Dan Davies is a former regulatory economist at the Bank of England and an analyst for several investment banks. He is the author of The Unaccountability Machine and Lying for Money, and has written for publications including the Financial Times, The Guardian, and The New Yorker. Thanks to Steven Teles, David Dagan, and Henry Farrell for their helpful and insightful comments. “Let’s play a little game here … Let’s all get up and stretch.