Tag: Cryptocurrency
Trump to sign executive order to allow crypto and other private assets into 401(k)s
Crypto may soon be a part of your 401(k). President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday midday to allow employees access...
Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm Guilty on One Count in Federal Crypto Case
Roman Storm, one of the developers of crypto anonymizing tool Tornado Cash, has been found guilty of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting...
Charter Planes and Bidding Wars: How Bitcoin Miners Raced to Beat Trump’s Tariffs
For companies importing goods from Southeast Asia, like Luxor, the timing of Trump’s announcement was particularly unhelpful, coinciding with Eid, the public holiday celebrated...
This Gen Zer dropped out of NYU at just 19 to launch his blockchain—now, his $1.3 billion company is backed by Mark Cuban and he never takes a day...
Being in the C-suite is a high-pressure job with long hours, responsibilities to the board, and intense scrutiny. But what is it like to...
Michael Saylor’s Strategy makes its third-largest Bitcoin purchase ever
Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin juggernaut is at it again, buying near the highs with the kind of capital-markets firepower no other crypto firm can match.
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Dan Morehead assembled his Princeton mafia to pile into Bitcoin at $65 in 2013, leaving his Wall Street career behind to build a $4 billion crypto fund
In 2016, Dan Morehead embarked on a world tour to preach the gospel of Bitcoin. A former trader at Goldman Sachs and Tiger Management,...
Wall Street is finally embracing crypto—but the real payoff will come when it embraces DeFi
The global financial system, or what we broadly refer to as TradFi (Traditional Finance), is a $30+ trillion behemoth. Its reach spans commercial banking,...
Coinbase’s $1.5 billion windfall and two other key numbers hidden in latest earnings
When Coinbase published its second quarter earnings on Thursday, the results were ho-hum at best: a narrow miss on revenue and a decline in...
Subzero Labs raises $20 million to build a blockchain for the ‘real world’
Even as crypto finds growing traction on Wall Street and among retail investors, few people regard the blockchain technology that powers it as useful...
Beijing officials warm to the idea of a yuan stablecoin, driven by the ‘fear of missing out’
Financial innovation has come full circle. The blockchain is bringing the U.S. back to the era of private money, when banks and companies could...