Marcel Duchamp

This week, we look at:

• How the music industry needed The Pirate Bay and Napster

• Why J.P.Morgan is paying $1B in fines for allegedly manipulating the precious metals market

• Whether DeFi is flirting with self-dealing and veering towards apathy

• Why QAnon and 8chan are a bad example for global governance

• And how the European Commission’s proposed crypto-market rules are highly productive for blockchain-based capital markets infrastructure