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David Yaffe-Bellany

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Reporter for @nytimes, covering crypto and fintech from New York // past: Bloomberg News and Businessweek // [email protected] // DM for phone/Signal.

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  • 1 week ago | nytimes.com | David Yaffe-Bellany

    The MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, who spread baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, defamed a former employee of Dominion Voting Systems, a federal jury in Denver found on Monday. The jury awarded $2.3 million in damages to the former employee, Eric Coomer, after a two-week trial, according to one of his lawyers, David Beller. Mr. Lindell claimed without evidence that the vote had been rigged to prevent President Trump from winning re-election.

  • 1 week ago | nytimes.com | David Yaffe-Bellany

    You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. The debut of American Bitcoin, a mining firm backed by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., has heightened the ethical concerns swirling around the Trump presidency.

  • 1 week ago | miamiherald.com | David Yaffe-Bellany |NYT Business

    On a Wall Street conference call in April, Eric Trump made a pitch for the newest venture in his family’s rapidly expanding cryptocurrency empire. Trump, the president’s second son, said he was joining forces with the crypto firm Hut 8 to start a company focused on bitcoin mining, the business of running energy-guzzling machines to generate new coins. Bitcoin mining is a notoriously difficult industry.

  • 1 week ago | flipboard.com | David Yaffe-Bellany

    The president is fickle, feckless, and easily swayed—which makes him an easy mark for militarists. In the both the 2016 and 2024 presidential …

  • 2 weeks ago | thestar.com.my | Eric Lipton |David Yaffe-Bellany

    THE sale of face-to-face access to US President Donald Trump through a cryptocurrency bearing his name has done more than line his pockets. Trump announced last month that top buyers of a meme coin known as $TRUMP would be invited to a private dinner with him at one of his golf resorts. The highest spenders would even score a VIP reception and a tour of the White House.

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12 Sep 24

RT @FlitterOnFraud: NEW w/@yaffebellany: The US State Department has formally requested that jailed Binance employee Tigran Gambaryan be re…

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7 May 24

RT @FlitterOnFraud: Behind Nigeria’s Arrest of Binance Employee, Claims of a Bribe Request - by ⁦@yaffebellany⁩ & me https://t.co/YX3HDjxh5Z

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30 Apr 24

RT @Techmeme: Since pleading guilty in November 2023, Changpeng Zhao has networked across the US to set up his next act; sources say CZ and…