Crypto

The tech companies have delisted apps developed by a Cambodian company accused of running a multi-billion dollar market for illicit fraud services on Telegram.

Disgraced former crypto billionaire Sam Bankman Fried is serving a 25-year sentence in New York City’s Metropolitan Detention Center. He’s learning about such things as sports gambling and a drug called “deuce,” and he badly misses his teddy bear Manfred.

Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong created one of crypto’s central players, a fee-gushing monster that holds more than a tenth of all the Bitcoin ever minted. But now, in the cause of “decentralization,” he’s pursuing a new path.

The bitcoin price has more than doubled over the last year, pushed higher by the world’s largest asset manager BlackRock’s embrace of crypto.

Though the judge said he’d “never seen” a cooperator as strong as Ellison, she was “not inviolable” and Bankman-Fried had her “Kryptonite,”

Flowcarbon secured millions of dollars in funding from investors like Andreessen Horowitz to merge carbon offsets with the blockchain, but its token never launched.

Christian Angermayer is seemingly behind every flashy investment of the last decade. With boundless bravado and a roster of famous friends—including Peter Thiel, Uma Thurman, and the president of Rwanda—he’s getting ready to launch an Olympiad for athletes on steroids.

As bitcoin soars and stock prices more than double, the executives at top publicly-traded crypto firms have been regularly selling.

Paolo Ardoino says that the company has already made more money than he could have ever dreamed. Now he plans to use the company’s balance sheet to replicate its success with digital dollars in the fields of data, artificial intelligence and education.

“You can’t align the stars any better for a BTC price acceleration” than Trump’s economic blueprint, according to Cuban, who simultaneously predicted the decline of the dollar under Trump.