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Hunter Biden sits down with CoinDesk’s Nik De on Election Day to talk about his $LAPTOP meme token, Democrats’ crypto blind spot and why he’s done hiding. Biden blames the token’s chaotic launch on a market maker he says put just $5,000 to work. He calls himself a “true believer” in crypto, and says most Democrats who weigh in on it “don’t know anything about it.” He also argues that President Trump’s personal crypto ventures are a danger to the industry, and says Trump’s refusal to accept ethics provisions is the only reason market structure legislation stalled. Plus, his take on the swift dismissal of charges against two FBI agents tied to the laptop investigation why he chose to “walk through the fire” instead of disappearing.

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Timecodes:

00:00 - Hunter Biden Joins CoinDesk

01:40 - Why He’s a Crypto “True Believer”

02:44 - The First Meme Coin With a Built-In Prediction Market

03:28 - Why Progressives Have Crypto Wrong

04:27 - What Happened at the $LAPTOP Launch

06:47 - $LAPTOP Tokenomics and the 5% Charity Floor

09:02 - Hunter Biden’s Election Day Predictions

12:56 - Why Crypto Money Is Flowing to Republicans

14:34 - Why He Says Trump’s Crypto Ventures Are “Dangerous” for the Industry

17:06 - The Ethics Fight That Stalled Market Structure Legislation

22:29 - Owning the Launch, and the Rug Pull Perception

23:52 - A Judge Tosses Charges Against FBI Agents in the Laptop Probe

26:18 - Comey, Don Lemon and the DOJ’s “Eye of Sauron”

29:58 - Can Government Weaponization Be Stopped?

35:00 - Iran, Vietnam and the Nuclear Codes

37:19 - Why Hunter Biden Stays in the Public Eye

What the Democrats' win means for crypto.

Democrats are projected to take both chambers of Congress, shifting control of crypto legislation despite the industry spending tens of millions to back Republicans. Sherrod Brown won his Ohio seat back after crypto PACs poured $63 million into defeating him, and Elizabeth Warren is now likely to chair the Senate Banking Committee. CoinDesk’s Jennifer Sanasie hosts “CoinDesk Daily.”

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This episode is brought to you by Grayscale, the world's largest digital asset-focused investment platform. Grayscale's mission is to make digital asset investing simple and open to every investor. Learn more at grayscale.com.
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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

DPRK denies it was behind the $6.4B Binance hack.

Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, denied the FBI's claim that Pyongyang's TraderTraitor group was behind the $6.4 billion Binance hack, calling it a political attack. But analytics firm Elliptic says the on-chain evidence backs the attribution. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

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This episode is brought to you by Grayscale, the world's largest digital asset-focused investment platform. Grayscale's mission is to make digital asset investing simple and open to every investor. Learn more at grayscale.com.
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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

On this episode of CoinDesk’s Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, Jennifer Sanasie is joined by co-host Tim Grant, Co-Founder and CEO of TensorX, as crypto reckons with the largest hack in its history.

Ari Redbord, Global Head of Policy at TRM Labs, breaks down the roughly $6.4 billion drained from Binance across 10 blockchains and what it means for exchange security.

Rich Widmann, Director of Digital Assets Strategy at Google Cloud, explains the newly unveiled Google Multi-Party Compute custody system, and whether it could have stopped the Binance breach.

Plus, Tim Grant unpacks TensorX’s push into sovereign AI compute, the rise of “neoclouds,” and the leverage risks hanging over the GPU buildout.

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Chapters:

00:00 Welcome to Public Keys

00:32 Morgan Stanley Downgrades Coinbase to $120

02:26 Binance Hit by Crypto's Largest Hack

02:53 TRM Labs' Ari Redbord on the $6.4B Heist

03:32 "The Largest Bank Robbery in Human History"

05:33 Midterms, GENIUS and CLARITY in Focus

08:41 How the Breach Happened and Hardening Cyber

11:58 Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs See Outflows

12:55 Tim Grant on Flows and Institutional Risk

16:47 Private Keys, Crypto's Weak Point

17:15 Google's Rich Widmann on Multi-Party Compute

21:30 The Quantum and AI Threat to Custody

23:51 Could MPC Have Stopped the Binance Hack?

27:25 Tim Grant on TensorX and Sovereign AI

32:45 GPUs, Neoclouds and the CoreWeave Risk

More than $6B left Binance after record hack.

More than $6 billion in crypto flowed out of Binance-linked wallets in the first 24 hours after the exchange reopened withdrawals, following a record hack that stole roughly $6.3 billion. Rival exchanges OKX and Bybit absorbed hundreds of millions in the shuffle. CoinDesk’s Jennifer Sanasie hosts “CoinDesk Daily.”

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This episode is brought to you by Grayscale, the world's largest digital asset-focused investment platform. Grayscale's mission is to make digital asset investing simple and open to every investor. Learn more at grayscale.com.
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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.