Michael Del Castillo
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U.S. Government Owns Way More Bitcoin Than Any Other Country–So Why Aren’t They Selling It?
Washington owns nearly $2 billion worth of seized bitcoin and has been reluctant to part with it. That may represent inertia more than strategy. → Read More
Meet @Fiatjaf, The Mysterious Nostr Creator Who Has Lured 18 Million Users And $5 Million From Jack Dorsey
Disenchanted with his online options, the reclusive programmer tells Forbes how he designed a chat-and-payment service for people who dislike corporate control. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has donated more than $5 million because he likes the idea. → Read More
Jack Dorsey Donates $10 Million To Turn Bitcoin Into ‘The Native Currency Of The Internet’
The Twitter founder has donated the funds to the OpenSats non-profit, half of which will be used to fund Nostr, a new social protocol that lets social network developers easily integrate with bitcoin. → Read More
Reddit Co-Founder’s Quest For Unseizable Property
Alexis Ohanian’s ancestors perished during the Armenian genocide and had their assets seized. That generational trauma is a big reason why he’s betting heavily on NFTs and future social networks, despite crypto’s chilly winter storm. → Read More
Visa Proposal Would Bring Ethereum Users One Step Closer To Being Their Own Bank
Direct-from-wallet Ethereum scheduled transactions would take some financial intermediaries out of the crypto-payment equation. → Read More
‘Bitcoin Billionaires’ Author Ben Mezrich Takes On Amazon Self-Publishing
Art imitates life as the author who made Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss famous launches his own blockchain product, a tokenized screenplay, with plans to take on the publishing industry directly. → Read More
Mango Exploiter Explains $65 Million Bet To Get Rich Off FTX’s Demise
"Hacker" Avraham Eisenberg made $100 million exploiting a "highly profitable trading strategy" on the Mango decentralized exchange. Now he's out to do the same with the FTX fire sale. → Read More
Kim Kardashian’s $1 Million Fine Could Impact Uniswap, SushiSwap And Other Decentralized Exchanges
Investigation into mysterious cryptocurrency could answer longstanding questions about how regulators will respond to securities traded on Uniswap, SushiSwap and other decentralized exchanges. → Read More
KKR Blockchain Access To $4 Billion Fund Opens Door To Crypto Investors
Fractionalized investments bring financial providers to the scene as regulators struggle with noncompliant crypto companies. → Read More
Jack Dorsey’s Former Boss Is Building A Decentralized Twitter
A little-known group of interoperable social networks has been growing in private for years, but now that the engineer behind Twitter’s pilot, Evan Henshaw-Plath has joined the fray, the parallel universe is verging on mainstream. → Read More
Every U.S. Crypto Exchange (And Binance) Is Being Investigated By The SEC, Says Senator Lummis Staffer
Widely circulated reports that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating $20 billion crypto exchange Coinbase are just the tip of the iceberg, according to a staffer from U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis’ office. → Read More
Bitcoin Bank Custodia Sues Federal Reserve, Demanding Decision On Master Account
Custodia Bank was founded by Morgan Stanley veteran Caitlin Long is suing the Federal Reserve over its application for a master account. → Read More
Crypto’s Great Reset: How Digital Asset Investors Will Recover From The Market’s $1 Trillion Meltdown
The DAO’s implosion and the ICO crash set the groundwork for the growth of DeFi and cambrian explosion of DAOs today, and it is hard to imagine companies like Tesla buying bitcoin before covid. → Read More
BlackRock And Citadel Deny Trading Cratering Stablecoin
In response to widespread rumors, hedge fund giant Citadel Securities and asset manager BlackRock say they don't trade any the notorious TerraUSD, a stablecoin that lost its peg to the dollar, wiping out $25 billion from the underlying asset. → Read More
Bitcoin Trailblazer Raises Capital To Create Interplanetary Cryptocurrency
LedgerX founding CEO Paul Chou is building on the sale of the company he created to FTX by creating a new kind of cryptocurrency, Foundation Coin, that can be spent on Earth, the Moon, Mars and beyond. → Read More
NFT Growing Pains: ‘Blue Chip’ Success Exposes Ethereum Weaknesses And Market Strengths
The same day Yuga Labs raised $285 million selling 10,000 Bored Ape NFTs the broader market bottomed out at 90% below its all-time high. → Read More
Edward Snowden Revealed As Key Participant In Mysterious Ceremony Creating $2 Billion Anonymous Cryptocurrency
The notorious whistle-blower acknowledges he was the sixth person who participated in an elaborate 2016 ceremony that led to the creation of zcash, a leading privacy protecting cryptocurrency now valued at $2 billion. → Read More
Forbes Blockchain 50 2022
Since our inaugural roundup of the Blockchain 50, published in 2019, the billion-dollar companies (minimum, by sales or market value) on our annual list have moved beyond test projects and now rely on “distributed ledger” technology to do serious work. → Read More
Gemini Raises $400 Million To Protect The Metaverse From Meta (Facebook)
After years of paying for the Gemini cryptocurrency growth out of pocket, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have finally accepted outside capital to help build new financial ecosystems, and an entirely new digital world. → Read More
Chelsea Manning Is Back, And Hacking Again, Only This Time For A Bitcoin-Based Privacy Startup
Five years ago trans whistleblower Chelsea Manning sketched out a new way to protect online privacy from her prison cell. Venture-backed Nym Network just hired her to break into their blockchain version of her plan. → Read More