1/ Joel Khalili (Joel Khalili) has a great synthesis on SEC's Wells notice in Wired. Worth a read! Here's why I am skeptical the SEC seeks to treat stablecoins as securities, and a hypothesis on what's really happening. wired.com/story/confusio…

Tip Techmeme: A successor to sanctioned crypto mixer Tornado Cash is under development. Ameen Soleimani, heavily involved in the original, calls his new project a "peace offering" to regulators wired.com/story/new-cryp…

Wondering why FTX is suing Grayscale? Here's our story on the feud over GBTC: wired.com/story/crypto-b…

It's US publication day for TREMORS IN THE BLOOD: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of The Lie Detector! It's a true crime book about two murders—one in San Francisco in 1922, one in Chicago in 1935—and the flawed, fascinating machine that connects them. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720693/t…

The implosion of FTX has left customers with a difficult choice: to sell their claims for cents on the dollar or wait out a multi-year bankruptcy case in the hope of a better deal wired.com/story/crypto-b…

*chef's kiss*

By me, on the strange science behind meme coin mania wired.com/story/meme-coi…

Back in April, I visited Liberland, a tiny country-in-the-making on the Serbia-Croatia border. The right to settle the land is disputed by Croatia, but the president of Liberland believes a breakthrough is near. wired.com/story/liberlan…

"I’m here to see the Orb. The receptionist knows exactly what I’m talking about." — Joel Khalili wired.com/story/sam-altm…

Day ✌🏼 of #Meridian23 kicked off with a cold one. @LedesmaLyllah, Joel Khalili, Bjarke Smith-Meyer, and ellen dive into what it means to cover ‘crypto winter’ as a reporter.

Ahead of the impending insanity of next week's SBF trial this, by Joel Khalili, is the best catch-up explainer I've read: wired.com/story/sam-bank…

A look at FTX 2.0 Coalition, a group of creditors led by FTX CEO John Ray III that has almost 3,000 members and is looking to relaunch the exchange without SBF (@jkfruit / Wired) wired.com/story/can-ftx-… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/230929/p19#a23…

In September last year, our son Rayan was stillborn. It was devastating, but was made worse by the silence around stillbirth, especially for men. With that in mind, I wrote something for The Guardian about what happened, and how we survived. Please read + share if you can

onwards! I'll be on the hunt for journalism work, as well as other non-journalistic writing gigs. I <3 writing about public health, drugs, medicine, and mental health, among other stuff. if you're willing to fork money over for my words, my deets are at gracefbrowne.com

Really excellent read this. Joel Khalili lifts the lid on a16z's dragon's den for crypto startups—complete with all the incomprehensible lingo, awkward convos, and bullishness you'd expect. But maybe, just maybe, there might be some good ideas there too. wired.com/story/inside-a…

A look at a16z's Crypto Startup Accelerator, a Y Combinator-style program that provides $500K in funding and 10 weeks of coaching, most recently in London (@jkfruit / Wired) wired.com/story/inside-a… 📫 Subscribe: techmeme.com/newsletter?fro… techmeme.com/240704/p7#a240…

I spoke to the father of a kid that made $30,000 in under ten mins on a cryptocoin he'd created. He didn't believe it at first. But when angry messages started to flood in, he realised his son was telling the truth—if not quite the full story. wired.com/story/memecoin…

My X account was hacked and used early yesterday morning to promote a fraudulent $WIRED memecoin. The posts have since been removed and I have regained access to the account. For clarity, WIRED does not operate any branded crypto coins.