Senate Bill 21 establishes the Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (Reserve) as a special fund outside the state treasury, administered and managed by the comptroller. This allows the state to hold Bitcoin as a financial asset. The comptroller is tasked with maintaining and administering the Reserve, as well as investing, compliance, and reporting requirements. Public and private entities may give, grant, or donate cryptocurrency to the Reserve
Fear Porn About AI Dominance Follows The Covid Tyrants’ Playbook
I don’t know what the future of AI holds. But neither do any of the people using panic rhetoric to induce population-wide fear and dread. Reading Matt Shumer’s viral essay about artificial intelligence was like stepping back in time to roughly six years ago, when the world started going insane over Covid-19. It hits all the same...