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Molly White — Researcher, software engineer, Wikipedian

Researcher, software engineer, and writer who focuses on the cryptocurrency industry, blockchains, web3, and tech more broadly.

The industry that promised it would free us from captured institutions has captured them itself.
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Molly White made her name documenting crypto industry failures with surgical precision and deadpan wit, and has since expanded into broader tech accountability and political corruption. Her writing is dense with facts and light on filler — she arranges the evidence and trusts you to draw conclusions. The site itself is a model indie web presence: a living microblog, a curated blogroll with OPML export, and a longer-form newsletter (Citation Needed) for the investigative deep dives.

Written by Molly White since 2019.

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My custom keyboard layout

March 13, 2026

My custom keyboard layoutA list of my favorite custom keyboard features thus far, courtesy of TailorKey:Caps word: Engages the caps lock function only until you hit a word boundary (anything that's not an alphanumeric character, underscore, or backspace basically). So helpful I'm wondering how I ever typed without it.Home row modifiers: Tap asdf or jkl; and they function as normal letters, but hold them and they function as modifiers (ctrl, alt, cmd, shift). Tremendous.The "select word" function...

Note published on March 12, 2026 at 2:27 PM UTC

March 12, 2026

my new keyboard layout has “caps word” functionality (think caps lock but just for a single word) and my god traditional keyboard manufacturers need to get with the timeswhere has this been all my lifePosted: March 12, 2026 at 2:27 PM UTC. Also posted to: Mastodon, BlueskyTagged: keyboards.

Note published on March 11, 2026 at 1:42 PM UTC

March 11, 2026

The Binance crypto exchange has just filed a defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over its article reporting that Binance's own compliance investigators had found $1 billion in transfers to Iran-backed terror groups, and then were fired.The article, and related investigations by the New York Times and Fortune, were cited in an inquiry over the alleged sanctions evasion by Senator Blumenthal, and a request by Sen. Van Hollen and others for an investigation by the Treasury and Justic...

Note published on March 10, 2026 at 6:59 PM UTC

March 10, 2026

The Coinbase-backed "Stand With Crypto" advocacy group has declared Illinois Senate candidate Juliana Stratton to be "strongly against crypto" solely because she made a statement criticizing the $5.5 million the crypto industry had already spent to oppose herPosted: March 10, 2026 at 6:59 PM UTC. Also posted to: Mastodon, BlueskyTagged: crypto lobby, Stand With Crypto, US politics.

Note published on March 10, 2026 at 3:38 PM UTC

March 10, 2026

with great sadness i had to retire my trusty Ergodox Infinity, but: new keeb! expect typos as i learn how to type again(MoErgo Glove80)the Ergodox was also ortholinear with thumb clusters so the transition shouldn't be too difficult, but the default layout on this one is a little different (thumb shift and modifier keys mostly)Posted: March 10, 2026 at 3:38 PM UTC. Updated March 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM UTC. Also posted to: Mastodon, BlueskyTagged: keyboards.

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