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The Coinbase-backed nonprofit Stand With Crypto Alliance is leading the effort to establish the Creator Defense Fund initiative, which has raised $6 million from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and NFT marketplace OpenSea.According to a press release on September 13, a16z will donate $1 million to the fund, while OpenSea has pledged to donate the remaining $5 million.The coalition said legal pressures such as the SEC's recent Wells Notice to OpenSea suggest that blockchain-based creators will continue to face significant regulatory threats in the future, and that the fund is aimed at helping those who need it.Creator Defense FundThe…

Chayanthong/iStock/Getty Images Plus “The person who really screws things up is a good guy with a gun,” says an attractive female cop in an episode of ABC's The Rookie. The remark is no coincidence, nor is it simply inspired by Hollywood's notorious left-wing leanings. Rather, gun control groups freely admit to working with screenwriters and producers to shape the dialogue. One group boasts of having “'affiliations' and 'script consultations' with Hollywood,” journalist John Stossel tells me.The reality is that “good guys with guns” often stop would-be mass murderers. But the stories don't usually make it into the national media. And…

“I think it's a fine line,” John Faust, a former senior adviser to Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, told Timiraos. “The 50 percent number is very plausible,” said Esther George, who served as president of the Kansas City Fed for more than a decade until last year. She noted that because the Fed moved quickly to tighten policy above the “neutral” rate, it may make sense for the central bank to move just as quickly to ease.

OpenAI has released a new series of AI models called OpenAI o1 that are designed to enhance reasoning capabilities for solving complex problems. The o1-preview and o1-mini models aim to give machines more time to think through a problem before generating a response, which could be useful in fields like science, coding, and math.OpenAI reports that these models learn to refine their thought processes through training, allowing them to try different strategies and recognize mistakes. In tests, the upcoming model updates performed on par with PhD students on difficult benchmark physics, chemistry, and biology problems. The inference model significantly outperformed…

“Appellant KalshiEx LLC (“LLC”) knew that this Court's review was imminent and rushed to enter into its election wagering agreements on the same day the district court issued its memorandum opinion, before appellant the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“Commission” or “CFTC”) had an opportunity to file this motion to stay its appeal on significant legal and public interest issues,” the CFTC said in its filing.

AP Image Minnesota Governor Tim Walz isn't just responsible for leaving tampons in boys' bathrooms at his public schools.The Democratic vice presidential nominee is also responsible for funding a “transgender” lobbying group that has filed a “discrimination” lawsuit seeking to put men in women's prisons.Reduxx reported that after the state Department of Corrections implemented its “gender identity” regulations in January 2023, the department transferred five “trans women” to its women's facility. Two are child sexual abusers and one is a murderer. Sexual predatorsMen posing as women are currently enjoying life at the Shakopee Correctional Institution in Minnesota, Reduxx reports. The…

Project Baltimore/X Walter Martinez An MS-13 gang member who murdered a 20-year-old autistic girl in Maryland in 2022 was allowed to attend school while police waited to make an arrest.But that's not the worst thing about the case of Salvadoran murderer Walter Martinez, who was arrested at the southwest border and released on President Joe Biden's orders, but pleaded guilty last month to the murder of Harford County's Kayla Hamilton.School officials had no idea that a dangerous murder suspect was on campus.It's unclear how many more Americans must die at the hands of Biden's “immigrants” before the administration stops the…

andriano_cz/iStock/Getty Images Plus Police Scotland records the “self-reported” gender of people accused of rape, even though by law only men can be prosecuted for rape – a policy that women's activists have called “morally indefensible”.Murray Blackburn Mackenzie (MBM), an all-female policy analysis group, submitted the petition to the Scottish Parliament's Civic Engagement and Public Petitions Committee in 2021. According to the Herald:Analysts are concerned that perpetrators who identify as women are recorded as women in crime statistics, even though the legal definition of rape includes penetration by the male organ. The petition called on Parliament to “urge the Scottish Government…

The PopCat meme coin has risen by over 11% since Kraken announced its listing on spot trading on Sept. 19. The price of PopCat hit a record high of $0.67 and was trading higher at the time of writing. Trading prices for Solana meme coin Popcat (POPCAT) rose after cryptocurrency exchange Kraken announced it was adding support for spot trading. The cat-themed meme coin also surged nearly 30% after the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, listed the POPCAT perpetual contract, recording double-digit gains as of press time on Sept. 12. The meme coin's price rose from $0.58 to a high…

Asset management firm 21Shares has added Anchorage Digital Bank and BitGo as custodians for its spot cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs), the ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB) and the 21Shares Core Ethereum ETF (CETH). Anchorage Digital Bank and BitGo will work with current custodian Coinbase to strengthen 21Shares' spot ETP operations in the U.S., according to a statement on Sept. 12. The company selected the two companies due to their track records of strong regulatory compliance, security, and reliability. The move brings the number of ETFs for which BitGo serves as custodian to four. BitGo already has partnerships with two other…