Blockchain Innovation Will Put an AI-Powered Internet Back Into Users’ Hands
The doomers have it wrong. AI is not going to end the world—but it is going to end the web as we’ve known it. AI is already upending the economic …
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Meet ZachXBT, the Masked Vigilante Tracking Down Billions in Crypto Scams and Thefts
As ZachXBT has pursued that career as a crypto vigilante, he has also kept his mask firmly in place. Online, he appears only as his avatar, a kind of platypus …
Nigeria Drops Charges Against Tigran Gambaryan, Jailed Binance Exec and Former IRS Agent
For eight months, the criminal investigator who pioneered cryptocurrency tracing as a law enforcement technique has, in a bizarre twist of fate, been detained and then jailed in Nigeria facing …
Sam Altman’s Eye-Scanning Orb Has a New Look—and Will Come Right to Your Door
While the biometric-scanning Orb and the World network have their roots in crypto tokens, “crypto” wasn’t an oft-mentioned word during the event. Instead, Altman and Blania emphasized World’s blockchain service, …
69,000 Bitcoins Are Headed for the US Treasury—While the Agent Who Seized Them Is in Jail
In November of 2020, a person identified by the US Department of Justice only as “Individual X” sat down with an IRS agent named Tigran Gambaryan and prosecutors at the …
FTX Customers Will Get Back Billions After Judge OKs Bankruptcy Plan
A US judge has cleared the way for billions of dollars to be refunded to former customers of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX. At a court hearing in Wilmington, Delaware on …
How new deal could reshape ETF industry
Blockchain technology and tokenization could challenge the traditional ETF model. Janus Henderson said recently that it’s partnering with Anemoy Limited and Centrifuge to create Anemoy’s Liquid Treasury Fund (LTF), an …
A Mysterious School for the Network State Crowd Is Now in Session
Last month, venture capitalist Balaji Srinivasan announced the Network School, a three-month learning retreat marketed to people interested in “network nations,” a kind of utopia for the anarchocapitalist set. The …
‘Should Art Be Regulated by the SEC?’: NFT Artists’ New Lawsuit Seeks Answers
The essence of the case, Frye adds, is about NFT art writ large and “using NFTs the way most people are—to sell them.” The point is to get SEC regulators …
Craig Wright Faces Perjury Investigation Over Claims He Created Bitcoin
A judge in the UK High Court has directed prosecutors to consider bringing criminal charges against computer scientist Craig Wright, after ruling that he lied “extensively and repeatedly” and committed …