The Man Who Made Bitcoin Mining Sexy Again
It was a transformational year for bitcoin miners, with a cohort of them plowing significant resources into running artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. None, however, have done it quite like…
Optimism’s Jing Wang and the Widely Adopted OP Stack
Ethereum (ETH), the largest smart-contracts blockchain, for years has had a scalability issue. As more users joined the Ethereum ecosystem, the network became more expensive and slower to use.To solve…
Bridging Web2 and Web3 With Memes
2024 has been the year of the memecoin supercycle, with demand for the tokens surging to unprecedented heights. Memes are now a $141 billion business, according to CoinGecko, making up…
Senator Cynthia Lummis: Laser-Eyed Lawmaker
“Lummis like hummus” reads the press secretary’s signature. It’s a nod to how sometimes people mispronounce the name of the junior senator from Wyoming. But it’s a good bet most…
Bringing Staking to Bitcoin Via Babylon
David Tse is the co-founder of Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon, one of the foremost projects in the burgeoning sector of introducing utility to the world's oldest blockchain that is commonplace…
Donald Trump: The Crypto President
The morning after Bitcoin hit $100,000 for the first time, Donald Trump took a victory lap."CONGRATULATIONS BITCOINERS!!! $100,000!!!" he posted on his platform Truth Social. "YOU’RE WELCOME!!!"The price of Bitcoin…
Eric Wall, Udi Wertheimer and Francisco Alarcon: Upgrading Bitcoin With Covenants
Taproot Wizards, a collection of 2,108 JPEGs inscribed on Bitcoin using the Ordinals protocol, headed into 2024 on the heels of a $7.5 million seed funding round, which was promptly…
The Star Crypto Investigator Kidnapped by Nigeria
After eight long, harrowing months locked up in a Nigerian prison, Tigran Gambaryan is finally back home in Atlanta, recovering from his ordeal.The Nigerian government finally agreed to release Gambaryan…
Venice.AI’s Erik Voorhees: Merging Crypto and AI
“Crypto + AI” is personified by Erik Voorhees. His career has spanned the eras. In 2012, when Voorhees launched the blockchain-based gambling game “Satoshi Dice” — which once accounted for…
The Architect of Sui’s Object-Oriented Revolution
Evan Cheng didn’t just build another blockchain when he created Sui. He engineered a paradigm shift.Over the past year, Sui, one of the darlings of the bull market, has blown…