• Peter Schiff's son buys bitcoin
    Twitter trusts Gold bug Peter Schiff's 18-year-old anarcho-capitalist son over him when it comes to Bitcoin (Photo: SchiffGold)
    Bitcoin

    To Peter Schiff’s disgust, his son buys Bitcoin

    Schiff’s son holds some quite radical views on economy, but Twitter trusts the 18-year-old kid more than the famous gold bug

    September 8, 2020 /

    In his Sept. 7 tweet, Schiff also started a poll asking Twitter: “Whose advice do you want to follow? A 57-year-old experienced investor/business owner who's been an investment professional for over 30 years or an 18-year-old college freshman who's never even had a job.”

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  • Avanti unveils advisors
    Caitlin Long's new blockchain bank, Avanti Financial Group, has a trio of new advisors (Photo: Twitter)
    Cryptocurrencies,  People

    ‘A new type of bank’: Avanti Financial Group moves forward

    With a trio of influential advisors and an oversubscribed angel funding round, the Wyoming-based financial group is vowing ‘to serve the digital asset industry by offering solutions that can only be provided in the U.S. by a regulated bank’

    July 22, 2020 /

    Wall Street veteran turned Wyoming Blockchain Coalition co-founder Caitlin Long’s fledgling digital asset-focused bank has enlisted a veteran cryptographer, and experienced regulator and Fidelity Digital Assets’ lead blockchain architect.

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  • Nakamoto bitcoins just moved
    Did Satoshi Nakamoto just reclaim 50 BTC that have been sitting dormant for 11 years? (Photo: PixaBay/FreePNGimg)
    Bitcoin,  People

    50 of Satoshi Nakamoto’s bitcoins just moved. Maybe.

    The transfer of $489,000 in BTC from a digital wallet created in February 2009 re-energized speculation about the identity of Bitcoin’s creator, and Craig Wright’s claim to that mantle

    May 21, 2020 /

    Wright is being sued by Ira Kleiman, the adopted brother of Wright’s late partner, Dave Kleiman, for half of a 1.1 million bitcoin fortune. Those bitcoins are thought to have been mined by Satoshi Nakamoto at the beginning of the first blockchain.

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  • You've seen the meme, now meet the man: blockchain entrepreneur Kyri Andreou, better known as "gym friend" (via Instagram).
    You've seen the meme, now meet the man: blockchain entrepreneur Kyri Andreou, better known as "gym friend" (via Instagram).
    People

    Gym friend: Bitcoin community could use a little more masculinity

    Kyri Andreou, the infamous ‘gym friend,’ works out every day, avoids carbs, and can’t believe a simple pic at the gym become such a big issue

    January 10, 2020 /

    Kyri Andreou, 62, a blockchain entrepreneur who lives in Malaysia and pumps iron every day, had no idea that a photo of him standing next to a young woman he knew from the gym would end up making him famous in the cryptocurrency world. He's still a little bemused by it all.

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