Fraud in the Latin Music Industry and the Resilience of Decentralization

Dutch authorities have arrested a developer related to Tornado Cash. But is there a grey area here that is a bit messy? LinkedIn seems ready to go all in on the creator and influencer economy. Apple seems to have confidence that there’s not going to be a slowdown in iPhone sales. And of course, the weekend Longreads suggestions.

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Links:

• Suspected Tornado Cash developer arrested in Amsterdam (The Block)
• LinkedIn rolls out new tools to give creators more ways to share visual content (TechCrunch)
• Apple Expects to Sustain iPhone Sales in 2022 as Market Slows (Bloomberg)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• How Did Two Unknown Latin Music Operators Make $23 Million From YouTube? The IRS Says They Stole It (Billboard)
• Tornado Cash Crackdown Shows Limits of Regulating Cryptocurrency Services (WSJ)
• Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes (ArsTechnica)
• New – AWS Private 5G – Build Your Own Private Mobile Network (AWS Blog)
• The High-Stakes Race to Engineer New Psychedelic Drugs (Wired)
• The End of Manual Transmission (The Atlantic)

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