Steven Ehrlich

As the industry rides a Trump victory to unprecedented highs, the rich are getting much richer.

Crypto will finally have a tailwind in Washington, D.C. as Trump’s victory is poised to sweep away swaths of crypto skeptics in congress and regulatory agencies.

Bitcoin was meant to disrupt money-printing central banks, but its main use case is as a portfolio diversifier. One early developer wants to change the narrative. Also, one prominent venture capitalist inadvertently received six-figure fees when its privacy tech company helped North Korean hackers launder $60 million in stolen crypto.

Blockstream CEO Adam Back was the first person that Satoshi reached out to regarding Bitcoin. Fresh off of a $210 million fundraise, Back plans to bring everything from stablecoins to stocks to the $1.4 trillion blockchain.

Virtual Private Networks are marketed as a cloaking device to trick internet users into thinking they are anonymous online. However, it's an open secret that VPNs sell user data for money.

Months after cofounder John Collison declared "crypto is back," fintech unicorn Stripe is in talks to acquire startup Bridge, a provider of infrastructure for crypto stablecoins, five sources familiar with the discussions told Forbes. The price tag: $1 billion.

The mystery of who created BitcoinBTC deepened when an HBO documentary tagged 39-year-old software developer Peter Todd as Satoshi Nakamoto. However, he immediately denied being Satosh.

Marathon CEO Fred Thiel thinks that retail investors are giving small competitors too much credit for their AI endeavors. He has a different vision for his company.

Grayscale’s Zach Pandl’s base case has bitcoin testing new highs in the next few months. However, the story for Ethereum, Solana, and many others is more complicated.

In December, the Zcash founder resigned from his languishing privacy-centric blockchain. Now he’s back working with a Swiss-based entity trying to fix it from the outside.