The phrase “golden knights” once conjured images of armored crusaders galloping toward Jerusalem, pockets heavy with Byzantine coins they definitely intended to give back. Today the same words are brandished by everyone from a U.S. Army parachute team (who spell it “Golden Knights” and land in stadiums rather than on peasants) to gleaming cryptocurrency funds,…
The sun never sets on the Bitcoin empire—partly because it’s too busy rising and falling every fifteen minutes. From the glass towers of Singapore to the blackout-prone suburbs of Johannesburg, the BTC price has become the world’s most unreliable heartbeat monitor: every spike a collective gasp, every dip a synchronized clutching of national pearls. In…
Crypto: The Glorious Global Game of Digital Make-Believe By Our Man in the Ether If you want to watch humanity audition for a remake of “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” buy a plane ticket—any ticket—and ask the first person you meet about their crypto strategy. From the glass towers of Singapore to the tin-roof kiosks of…
Crypto: The Global Casino Where Everyone’s a High Roller Until They’re Not By Our Man in the Wreckage, filed from somewhere with spotty Wi-Fi and excellent whiskey In the beginning, there was the blockchain, and the blockchain was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of fiat. Then someone said, “Let there…
**The Man Who Bought the World (and Other Tuesday Afternoons)** Ramón Juárez del Castillo, the man who allegedly single-handedly tanked three currencies, saved a fourth, and somehow managed to look bored while doing it, has become the international financial community’s favorite cautionary tale. The 47-year-old former philosophy professor turned cryptocurrency savant sits in a Madrid…
Raja Jackson, the 27-year-old Ghanaian-British coder who accidentally broke the global carbon-credit market last Tuesday, has become the first person to owe more CO₂ than ExxonMobil—without ever owning a refinery. While regulators on three continents scramble to decide whether to jail him, canonize him, or simply let him pay it off in Bitcoin, the rest…
Somewhere between the IMF’s latest growth-downgrade press conference and a Moscow bar accepting satoshis for vodka, Bitcoin decided to stage another one of its interpretive-dance routines with gravity. One minute it flirted with $72,000, the next it face-planted to $66,000, and by the time Tokyo traders returned from their third cigarette break, the digital deity…
**Andreessen Horowitz: The Venture Capital Empire That’s Quietly Reshaping Your Digital Future (Whether You Like It or Not)** In a world where billionaires casually purchase social media platforms for fun and your grandmother now asks about cryptocurrency at Sunday dinner, one venture capital firm has mastered the art of being everywhere while remaining largely invisible…
**The Shiba Inu That Ate the World: How a Joke Currency Became the Perfect Mirror for Our Global Psychosis** In the pantheon of human achievements that future civilizations will struggle to explain—right alongside the Tulip Mania, the Pet Rock, and TikTok—Dogecoin stands as perhaps our most honest confession that we’ve collectively lost the plot. What…
Will Warren, the understated co-founder of 0x Labs, is the sort of fellow you could sit next to on a trans-Atlantic flight and never suspect he’s quietly re-wiring the planet’s financial plumbing. While the rest of us were busy panic-buying toilet paper and doom-scrolling, Warren was shipping code that allows anyone, anywhere, to trade digital…
From a windowless call-center in Manila to a Wi-Fi tent outside Kyiv’s central rail station, the same four-word incantation is being typed into glowing rectangles: buy bitcoin binance. It sounds like a minimalist haiku about late-stage capitalism, but it’s actually the fastest-growing ritual of the 2020s—part prayer, part panic attack, part geopolitical hedge. The world…
Hatton: The One-Word Riddle Currently Ruining Every Foreign Correspondent’s Sleep Cycle By Our Man in a State of Perpetual Jet Lag Every so often the planet coughs up a proper noun that seems to have been devised by a committee of prankish linguists and bored algorithm engineers. “Hatton” is the latest entry in that noble…
