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Nobody wants to accidentally spend billions of dollars on pizza, but that’s why Laszlo Hanyecz will forever be a Bitcoin Legend

Mersinger’s final day at the CFTC will be May 30

This is a segment from the Supply Shock newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe . “Being too far ahead of your time is indistinguishable from being wrong.” That was Howard Marks, co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, in his 2011 book The Most Important Thing. Marks had obviously never heard...

This is a segment from the Supply Shock newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe . Imagine being in an industry where a yellow piece of paper is one of your most iconic symbols. Well, that’s Bitcoin, and today’s legend is none other than Christian Langalis, better known as Bitcoin Sign Guy. Lang...

The recent surge in PolitiFi coins, specifically the Official Trump token, has captured the attention of crypto investors, reflecting a growing sentiment in political-themed cryptocurrencies. This bullish trend, marked by

Attendees at Blockworks’ Digital Asset Summit looked on as Donald Trump became the first sitting president to address a crypto conference. In recorded remarks shown Thursday on the main screen at New York City’s North Javits, Trump vowed that the US would “dominate crypto and the next generation of ...

China’s central bank has instructed key commercial banks to cut U.S. dollar deposit rates, which could push investors toward alternative assets like cryptocurrency. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) wants to discourage investors from hoarding the dollar to boost confidence in its currency as capital...

Key Takeaways: Sam Bankman-Fried criticized the “politicization” of the FTX case in a new interview with The New York Sun. The FTX founder revealed his politics had shifted further to the right. Speculators think SBF’s newfound right-leaning beliefs may be a way for him to gain clemency. Sam Bankman...

This is a segment from the Empire newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe . Trump didn’t take a direct route to Bitcoin — having sold three NFT collections on Polygon long before he met with bitcoin mining executives at Mar-a-Lago last June. And Trump is obviously no maxi. He and the First Lady...

Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (Block), is allegedly the creator of Bitcoin under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, according to Sean Murray, editor-in-chief of deBanked. The expert has compiled an extensive list of facts, dates, and coincidences that supposedly support his ...