Jack Kubinec

4 days ago | mail.blockworks.com | Byron Gilliam |Jack Kubinec |Ben Strack |Kate Irwin

Imagine if Twitter, instead of publishing the world’s stream of consciousness in real time, embargoed our posts during the day and released them all at once at 2 am every day. Or if the New York Times stockpiled its journalists' daily output and published it in a single daily batch. Such is the pre-internet dystopia in which our banking system still lives. Credit cards, Venmo and Apple Pay make it feel like we’re sending money in real time, but this is smoke and mirrors.

2 weeks ago | mail.blockworks.com | Jack Kubinec |Katherine Ross |Kate Irwin |Donovan Choy

Welcome back, readers.The Forward Guidance newsletter’s Casey Wagner is back again. Yesterday, she wrote about how BTC is still trading on macro news and today she puts that theory to the test with May’s CPI report. Let’s dive in: US stocks and bitcoin moved a bit higher Wednesday morning before paring gains after May’s CPI came in cooler than expected, suggesting that tariff-related price hikes are so far not a reality.

2 weeks ago | mail.blockworks.com | Casey Wagner |Jack Kubinec |Katherine Ross |Kate Irwin

Hey there! The Forward Guidance newsletter’s Casey Wagner is back again with some updates. While we wait for word from London on the status of a China-US trade agreement, she unpacks what the data has to say about bitcoin decoupling. Let’s do it: Another day, another bitcoin rally. After making a run approaching its all-time high last night, bitcoin was back in the red this afternoon, hovering around $109,400 and trading 0.6% lower over the past 24 hours as of 4 pm ET.

2 weeks ago | mail.blockworks.com | Macauley Peterson |Kate Irwin |Katherine Ross |Jack Kubinec

Good morning readers! Today’s edition of The Breakdown is brought to you by The Drop newsletter’s Kate Irwin. Curious about what the World eye-scanning ID project is up to recently? Kate’s got the deets. Let’s get into it: World Network — known for its eye-scanning orb that verifies human accounts for its mobile super app — is launching the next phase of its developer incentive campaign.

3 weeks ago | mail.blockworks.com | Jack Kubinec |Casey Wagner |Kate Irwin |Macauley Peterson

Welcome back, readers! Today is the last day that the Empire newsletter’s Katherine Ross takes over for Byron (I know, don’t cry.) As expected, she ends the week with a banger. Let’s get into it: The race to IPO has begun. Circle’s success is proving to be exactly what other companies that were interested in debuting on the public market wanted to see. If you don’t believe me, just take a look at Gemini.