Ben Weiss

2 days ago | fortunekorea.co.kr | Catherine McGrath |Ben Weiss

최근 가상화폐 시장은 도널드 트럼프 대통령 가족이 만든 코인을 대량 매수하는 경쟁을 벌였다. 목표는 단 하나, 트럼프와의 저녁 만찬 초청장을 받을 수 있는 상위 220위 안에 드는 것이었다. 트럼프는 자신의 '밈코인'인 $TRUMP를 가장 많이 보유한 상위 220인과 저녁식사를 할 예정이라고 밝혔다. 공식 웹사이트는 이렇게 설명했다. “경쟁은 치열하다. $TRUMP를 사든가, 아니면 관전하든가.” 이제 순위표가 확정됐고, 전 세계에서 모인 ‘승자들’이 워싱턴 D.C.에 모일 예정이다. 과연 누가 갈까. 순위표는 공개돼 있지만, 개별 승자들의 정체는 블록체인 주소로 가려져 있다. 그러나 포춘(Fortune) 분석에 따르면 상위 25위 중 18명이 미국인을 배제한 해외 거래소 ‘바이낸스(Binance)’와 상호작용한 것으로 드러났다. 이는 이들이 외국 국적자일 가능성이 크다는 걸 뜻한다. 일부 승자들은 스스로 신분을 공개했거나 가상화폐 분석업체를 통해 신원이 드러났다.

2 days ago | flipboard.com | Catherine McGrath |Ben Weiss

8 hours agoGrifter-in-Chief Trump and the Grift That Keeps on GriftingTrump is overplaying his hand.Not just by usurping the powers of Congress and ignoring Supreme Court rulings. Not just abducting people who are …5 hours agoTax Time Secrets: 7 Strategies to Minimize Capital GainsDid you sell property, such as, stocks, bonds, cryptocurrency, real estate, or precious metals, last year?

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Leo Schwartz |Ben Weiss

14 hours agoCongress erupts over Trump's billion-dollar crypto dealA $2 billion crypto deal involving President Trump's family and a foreign government is threatening to derail bipartisan stablecoin legislation that …1 day agoIs the White House for sale? New reports on Trump’s crypto ventures raise concern. A UAE-backed investment group and an international trucking logistics firm are pouring millions into cryptocurrencies linked to the president.

1 week ago | coinlive.com | Leo Schwartz |Ben Weiss

Author: Leo Schwartz and Ben Weiss Translator: Liam Source: FortuneIn 2019, Meta announced a bold plan: to launch a new stablecoin that would work on Facebook, WhatsApp, and many other digital platforms. However, after facing strong opposition from the U.S. Congress and other legislatures, the company eventually abandoned the plan. Now, Meta is testing the waters in the stablecoin field again.

1 week ago | cryptostudent.io | Ben Weiss |Alexandra Garfinkle

[[{„value”:”Vijaye Raji has taken his fair share of leaps in his decades-long career. “I like to jump off cliffs without parachutes,” he told Fortune. Born in India, he flew across the world to Seattle in the early aughts to take a job at Microsoft as a software engineer. Then, he jumped ship in 2011 to Facebook (now Meta) before it had gone public. And after a decade at the social media giant, he decided to bet on himself. “I don’t want to go to a large company.