Joel Khalili

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Donald Trump’s Not-So-Strategic Crypto Reserve

Donald Trump provoked a riot of cryptocurrency trading and accusations of favoritism on Sunday after identifying several coins that may feature in a future US strategic crypto reserve. Alongside bitcoin, Trump said...

The SEC Is Abandoning Its Biggest Crypto Lawsuits

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is backing away, one by one, from the volley of lawsuits and investigations it brought against cryptocurrency businesses under the Joe Biden administration, in a...

After a Violent Kidnapping, Crypto Elites Hire Bodyguards

In the early morning of January 21, David Balland and his wife were forced at gunpoint into separate vehicles outside their home in Méreau, a commune in the opulent Loire Valley, France....

Chokepoint 2.0: An Investigation Promises the Truth About Crypto’s Biggest Conspiracy

Last spring, Austin Federa was eyeing up a new property in Brooklyn, New York. After passing an initial round of vetting for a mortgage with HSBC, he put in an offer, eager...

Binance Moved Fast, Broke Things—and Paid the Price. Richard Teng Is Cleaning Up

Richard Teng would rather not be compared with Changpeng Zhao, his predecessor as chief executive at crypto exchange Binance. He intends to wear his own shoes, he says, not fill anybody else’s.Teng...

The Untold Winners of the Trump Memecoin Frenzy

It was the early hours of January 18, two days before Donald Trump was set to return to the White House. Tom had just slumped into bed when his phone lit up...

Early Investors in Donald Trump’s Memecoin May Have Been Tipped Off, Experts Claim

At 02:01:33 am UTC on January 18, a crypto trader identified only by their wallet address—an alphanumeric string ending in J9tXv—purchased $1.1 million worth of TRUMP, a new cryptocurrency launched by US...

The Trump Cryptonaissance Is Here

The wheels are already beginning to turn on Donald Trump’s plan to make the US into the “crypto capital of the planet” following his return to the White House.In an executive order...

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