Can AI Kill Democracy?
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- ⛏️ Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Soars Amid Sector Challenges. Competition is increasing to mine new BTC blocks.
- 🇬🇧 UK Introduces Bill to Give Crypto Owners Legal Property Rights. The UK’s Ministry of Justice is sponsoring the bill.
- 🎤 Harris-Trump Debate and New CPI Data Bring Market Volatility. Both crypto and TradFi markets whipsawed Wednesday.
📸 Daily Market Snapshot: Last night, two financial indicators took sharp simultaneous dives during a particularly tough moment for Donald Trump in the presidential debate. Those indicators were the price of BTC and Trump's Polymarket odds of winning the race. The snapshot encapsulates the current lock-step fortunes of crypto prices and Trump's re-election. With Harris and Trump in a dead heat across swing states, we can likely expect more volatility in the coming weeks.
| Prices as of 6pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $2.02T | ↘ 0.4% | ↘ 1.0% |
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BTC $57,393 | ↘ 0.3% | ↘ 1.3% |
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ETH $2,344 | ↘ 1.4% | ↘ 4.8% |
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OP $1.55 | ↘ 2.9% | ↗ 14.2% |
Can democracy survive artificial intelligence?
Today, on a special in-person recording of Bankless, we welcome best-selling author Yuval Noah Harari. Yuval is best known for his book Sapiens, and today, he is introducing ideas from his next book Nexus.
Our conversation explores the question: if human beings are so wise, why are we so self-destructive?
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